Can't wait for the adaptation of 'Jeff The Killer' in 2021, starring Jared Leto with no eyebrows, extremely white makeup and a tattoo of "Natural born killa" on his forehead, right beneath the scar that spells "mah nem jef".
May May considering there’s actual books about Minecraft, and I don’t mean like strategy guides and that sort of thing I mean full on books, I wouldn’t doubt that would actually happen... (Sony pictures would probably make it too, the hacks)
Please no I don't want to live through another era of teenagers writing about how much they want to fuck Jeff the Killer and other creepypasta serial killers.
Slenderman literally came from a photoshop contest on SomethingAwful. Imagine making a silly picture on a message board and having it lead to an attempted murder and a Hollywood film...
Krista Handel I have seen plenty worse than a guy bursting a jar in his rectum. That being said, the subject matter of his profile picture is not much worse than one guy one jar.
Sometimes I wonder how Hollywood executives think. Like how can any functioning human being think that a movie based off a trend that died in 2012 was a good idea?
I think it goes like this: An idea gets pitched on how to make cash out of some recent fad. After tons of talking and bickering it gets ok'd and the project starts to look for investors. Then the project meets several delays for whatever reasons like executive meddling, director being a hack or whatever. By this point the fad has been over for years but they still have to release the movie because they already promised to do so to their investors.
big machines move slow and the whole industry is run by out of touch old men (a la the writer for this one) who go by the logic of "how do you do fellow kids"
No, see I think that a "Slenderman" movie could be rather good and potentially do well despite it's popularity having waned. But this was just another crummy and cheap horrorfilm. If it was something else, like "the scary popsicle dude" that they just made up it'd be just as shit. Probably have more or less the exact same storyline too. Teens, internet, done.
I worked at one of the Marcus Theatres in Waukesha when this movie came out. I was in charge of putting posters in their cases at this time and had the Slender Man poster up for about two weeks before we were e-mailed to take any semblance of Slender Man marketing down. It was pretty crazy to work at a theater that banned a movie because of a tragic incident from not even 30 minutes away.
The thing is slenderman doesn't lend itself to a movie. Marble hornets did it best, slow creeping horror and intrigue of months not just scares one after another.
yeah, which is the very reason slenderman is a terrible 'monster' to use for standard horror movies. It is a tall thin dud in a tux that stands there menacingly and fucks up your footage. I doubt they did it in the movie, but I would be somewhat intrigued if they went the extra mile and screwed with the audio and video of the very slenderman movie throughout the film to imply that within the film he was near.
That was their miscalculation. The kids who were into Slenderman as 12-year-olds have mostly grown into young adults, and are going to avoid a Slenderman movie because they've outgrown it, while kids who are young enough to like some stupid internet horror meme are into different stupid internet horrors memes, now.
Now thats a twist, even shamaladan couldn't come up with. Also, isn't this movie allready looking like shit, I think hack snyder allready did some adjustments here and there.
This is what I understand the least. Was there really _any_ demand for this movie? How out of touch do you have to be to not realize no one gives a shit about slender man anymore (And really, even when it was a thing, most people didn't give a shit then either).
Sony has been on a roll since 2012 releasing great films every year The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) After Earth (2013) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Pixels (2015) Ghostbusters (2016) The Emoji Movie (2017) Slender man (2018)
I can’t wait for the Squidward’s Suicide, Suicide Mouse, and Dead Bart movies coming out in respective months apart in 2021. I’m getting prepared for the Creepypasta Shared Film Universe.
I’m gonna wait for the Sonic.Exe movie, personally I hope they keep the spirit of the original (that being poorly written with typos everywhere, and no semblance of a cohesive story).
Not really. It cost $10 Million to make and brought in over $11 Million in it's first weekend. It's a money maker. Basically if you keep your budget down you can make a bunch of money on reasonable returns. Who'd have thunk it.
"You don't understand, officer! He tried to kill me! He just appeared out of thick air and had a booty like BA-DOWW!" Officer: *[Furiously scribbling notes]* "Nice."
They raise a good point, that slenderman doesn't lend itself to a long, well-explained narrative. It's used most effectively unexpectedly and in snippets. If they had to make this dumb movie they should've made it in a fake documentary style, with interviews, edited photos, occasional cuts to short pieces of found footage, and maybe a nice spooky fourth-wall break in one of the "real" segments towards the end where you see him in-frame but the camera crew doesn't acknowledge it. Hell, you could even do that throughout the film and just have it happen more and more noticeably as things progress, almost like he's being summoned by people talking about him so much. That might've been kinda neat. But really, slenderman has been a dead meme for years... I can't wait for the Troll Face movie.
My dad used to help a rinky-dink, but historic local amusement park decorate and run a haunted house for Halloween. I suggested he should set up a photo op with a Slenderman dummy in the distance, so that it might show up in the background of people's photos and freak them out if they recognized it. I wish he had done it.
They did make it found footage for the first 'Slender' movie and it was garbage. I'm honestly still a fan of the creature, but just because found footage made him popular on youtube doesn't mean he should be limited to that medium of story telling.
Everything will be explained when they release the blue ray extended version, followed by the director's cut with all the extras and deleted scenes and then you'll belatedly realise, after having spent $250, that this film is a masterpiece.
As a teenager, I can verify that saying something reminiscent of "young grasshopper" would not be unheard of in conversation; we just don't know that it originates from Kung Fu.
Marble Hornets had some awesome moments. The first time Masky (forget his real name) attacks was really scary to me as a teenager. Or the more creative scares like going into a house in the day and leaving the attic shortly after, but it's suddenly night. I don't know why the whole idea of losing time always grabs me. More importantly Marble Hornets was a sincere creative project made by and for the internet audience that was into the original Slenderman zeitgeist. It was not a massive studio project.
You mean the Marble Hornets webseries, not movie. Better to specify that because there actually exists a MH movie and it is as terrible as the Slender Man one.
@@mds_main oh I see, im sure there was a terrible movie lol. So: the correct way to handle a slenderman movie would be to make it like the marble hornets web series
Calgon is a washing machine soap brand here in the UK. So "Calgon, Take me away" Kinda sounds a bit suicidal to me. Much spoopier than the actual movie.
you joke but there is a whole universe of webseries called the Slenderverse, which is composed of a few dozen RU-vid channels and accompanying Twitter, Tumblr, and blog sites for each channel
It isn't really that uncommon, and to make a case for false advertising you would have to argue that it was enough to trick a reasonable person into paying for it. You can't sue McDonalds because your burger doesn't look like the picture and you can't sue a movie company for using footage in a trailer that isn't in a movie.
It’s an advertisement to get you interested, it’s not really a “come see all of these things on the screen” sometimes. Some movies like 500 days of summer shot stuff that was only for the trailer, but I guess that’s different
I'm actually interested in what you said, not trying to argue, but just bringing up a counter point... It's not about the burger looking like the ad (most ads btw don't show the burger wrapped up, shoved in a bag, and tossed around inside the bag), but that the burger HAS the advertised ingredients. Shouldn't a movie be required to have all the "ingredients?". What if the trailer showed Iron Man in the movie then cut him out? That would be like advertising a cheeseburger and then getting one with no cheese.
D W you’re absolutely right about that. That would be misleading. I think there was actually a story about a guy who sued either a theater or a studio because an explosion in the trailer for like, jack reacher or something wasn’t in the movie and I think he won
D W that actually is a thing that happened in the Infinity War movie, except it wasn't Iron Man it was the Hulk who was in a lot of the trailers for the movie but he wasn't in the movie as much as advertised and especially not in the scenes they showed in the movie.
I just want to say this channel has been a great comfort over this past year and change. I greatly appreciate your humor and wit and passion for film and wish you all the success.
sorry to hear you've had a bad year. This channel also got me through some really rough times as well, used to have them on all the time. They all seem like really great people too, warm and smart and funny. I wish them every success as well!
When a bunch of kids with a RU-vid channel and a hand held camera produce a more suspenseful and terrifying narrative than Hollywood could ever conceive.
I watched this in theaters with my brother. There was one other couple there, an elderly woman and her son. We were huge fans of Slenderman thanks to Marble Hornets and all the memes, spent the entire movie just riffing it and laughing at some of the jump scares or dumb stuff like the dark web video. We were quiet at first until we realized the woman in front of us kept asking her son questions and were enjoying it just as much as we were. Female Slenderman in the library was the highlight for us. It's one of my favorite memories, puts the movie in a special place in my heart despite being your average schlocky horror.
It's insane that Marble Hornets, a youtube series from almost a decade ago, is better than a full fledged movie from Sony. Just...just keep to hardware and video games Sony.
I kinda got mad when I saw the ads for this movie, manly because I knew the movie would be bad. I knew that they probably didn't see Marble Hornets or anything else regarding the monster's lore. People who have no idea of what makes slender man scary shouldn't be making movies about him. Well at least in my opinion.
They could have saved SO much money(and probably turned a much bigger profit) just making a Marble Hornets remake with higher production values and more of a viral marketing campaign.
Here is my premise for a Slenderman movie, that I think would actually work really well: We see a scared girl, running through the woods. She trips or something, and then looks up and screams and we cut to black. Next scene is a funeral for the girl, and here we meet her friends and build their characters and stuff. Then we go to one of the girls looking at photos of her dead friend, and she notices slenderman in the background, she goes through all the photos and realises that he is in every photo taken by the woods the girl died in. So then all the girls get together, and go to the woods to investigate. Deep inside the woods, they find a pit with a bunch of DVDs dumped in it, all bearing the logo "SONY". They take them home and watch them - and then the horror begins...
When I saw the trailers for Slenderman I thought to myself, "man, I remember when creepypastas were cool... God I'm old now." That's not something you want your target audience to think when they hear about your horror movie.
This could've worked as a surreal claymation movie in the vein of Coraline or something idk. Edit: the idea of slendernan could work, but no matter what this story sucks ass.
I mean the people who made this movie didn’t give a fuck about making a decent product nevermind taking an artistic approach. However, I could see that working. Something kind of similar to Nightmare Before Christmas and it could act like a child’s boogeyman tale.
Holy shit, if Slender Man was animated like a stop motion creature all jittery and unnatural that could've been genuinely terrifying. That jerky motion is unsettling.
There was actually a youtuber (or a group) Marble Hornets, that made short vlog-oriented shorts. There was an overarching plot, but the shortness of the videos and the fact that they were uploaded in a non chronological order helped to build a very interesting horror story.
@21:22 I laugh so much harder than I think I should with Mike's voice.... Especially the second "WHAT!?" Haha So goddamn good, my favorite RU-vid channel by far!
Also, due to the fact that it was literally started mere days after the original images were posted to SomethingAwful - it wasn't influenced by any of the boring creepypasta that came later.
i've never seen this channel until now and you two are the cutest. your interactions show some great chemistry. when you're roasting an awful film you're pretty reasonable about it too.
