In a weird way, horror meme and internet urban legend Slender Man seems like one of the world`s easiest genre movie pulls. After his 2009 `debut` on the SomethingAwful forums, he`s garnered a pretty active, albeit niche, fanbase of internet residents who like their spooky photoshops and creepypasta stories on message boards and wikis. The premise itself is simple, too: a tall, faceless guy with a bunch of arms (sometimes) or tentacles (other times) who may or may not abduct children and who can `infect` people who think about him too hard. It`s easy stuff, really, and low hanging fruit for anyone looking for a quick and easy monster movie.However, despite the obviousness of the premise, it`s taken nearly a decade for Slender Man to make the jump to the big screen with the eponymously named Slender Man, directed by Sylvain White (Stomp The Yard)--but it turns out the internet`s favorite monster should have kept the home field advantage and stayed online.Slender Man follows a cluster of teenage girls in a sleepy town trying to navigate their unremarkable high school lives while planning their escape to the very grass-is-greener world beyond graduation. There`s Wren (Joey King) the consummate `bad girl` who has a vague interest in the occult and a prickly attitude, Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles); the track-and-field all star, Chloe (Jaz Sinclair); who is squarely in the `normal` category, and Katie (Annalisse Basso); who dreams of running away from her alcoholic dad. Their hobbies seem to be sneaking alcohol and bumming around in Katie`s basement while her dad drinks himself into a stupor upstairs. They do some authentically teenage stuff together like watching weird videos online and trying to gross each other out--you know, the usual.However, one night their routine is interrupted by a rumor. here`s this video they`ve heard about, and supposedly, some of the boys at school are planning on watching it. If you watch it, you`ll summon Slender Man to come and haunt yo ...
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