Things really didn't work out for Sylvian White's 2018 adaptation of the internet myth Slender Man. Its production felt doomed from the start.
A Slim Chance of Success
On paper, the premise for Slender Man doesn’t sound too bad an idea. Digging into the whole ‘is the legend real?’ nature of something created in a digital space should be fascinating.is perhaps the internet’s earliest example of that, and probably still one of the strongest bridging attempts between online spaces and horror movies.
But Slender Man’s execution was not up to the premise. It could be argued the film suffered from too many cuts and changes in development, and there’s ample evidence for that in the incoherent final film. It may not excuse the boring, uneventful end result but it’s a factor. The trailers for Slender Man clearly showed some significant changes had been made by the time the finished film went out.
It also didn’t help that before release, controversy struck the film. In 2014, two 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin — Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser — lured their friend Payton Leutner into a forest. They then stabbed her 19 times in a tribute to the character. Letner’s father was a vocal critic of the film due to his daughter’s attack.
Combined with general negative reactions in the media and from test screenings, Sony Pictures and Screen Gems pushed the film out with zero promotion and didn’t let critics have screenings of it.
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