Slenderman

The popular internet myth/meme becomes a movie, presumably because the marketing department thought there was a need for one. It doesn’t’ become a very good movie, though – this is sorta a teen “The Ring” retread, with a lot of enthusiastic googling to try to find how to deal with an evil creature that has crept into the lives of four average teenagers. The problem is, these are four very average teenagers with little distinguishing personality beyond “One with a Boyfriend”, “One with a sister”, “Black one” and “The one who disappears first”. And there’s a few surrealistic scare sequences that would fit right in as the most boring element of a lesser Nightmare on Elm Street sequel. But this adds up to very very little – there’s nothing you haven’t seen done better a thousand times before, and it’s a fairly dull non-event of a film.