My thoughts on the slender man movie.

I'm the type to play fair to a bad movie, I can say that I actually enjoyed the Slenderman movie to a degree. The reason I can forgive this movie being awful is that the slender man lore doesn't have a specific story to follow, what I mean is that there's not really a true backstory to follow with slender man unlike other creepypasta characters. Like with Jeff the killer or ticci toby, they have a story to follow in two different ways when it comes to making a movie about them.

One where it follows them directly through their timeline to becoming killers or follow a group of random characters or people related to the creepypasta characters and how they learned about Jeff or toby and tried to stop them. Which then brings us back to slender who doesn't really have a specific group to follow, you sort of have to create a story involving him with random people which is what the movie did. The movie could have made more likeable characters, they could've used the slender games as inspiration for story, or actually tried to recreate what happened with the Slenderman stabbings. Not condoning or making fun of such a tragedy btw.