3.8 | / 10 |
Users | 4.5 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.6 |
Slender Man tells the story of a tall, thin horrifying figure with unnaturally long arms and a featureless face, who is reputed to be responsible for the haunting and disappearance of countless children and teens.
Starring: Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, Alex FitzalanHorror | 100% |
Supernatural | 30% |
Thriller | 21% |
Mystery | 11% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Portuguese: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Thai, Vietnamese
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
What the world needs now isn't love, sweet love, but apparently another generic Boogeyman Horror movie because there aren't enough those to go around. Director Sylvain White's (Stomp the Yard, The Losers) Slender Man is the latest of countless many genre films in which some summoned humanoid creature wreaks havoc in the lives of a handful of teenage girls because they dared call out his name in an effort to spook up a slumber party and have a bit of fun with Internet urban legend. Unfortunately for them, the creature is real, not myth, and apparently thrives on those who dare make the mistake of speaking its name, either taking them for himself or leaving them a shell of who and what they once were. The movie is not even contrived. It's just a lazy, unimaginative spin through very familiar territory. There's not a shred of originality anywhere in the movie and not a smidgen of reason to watch.
Slender Man's 1080p image is fairly typical of a modern, higher end digital production. It's clean but not flat or glossy. Textural richness is apparent and good, basic, foundational details are strong, including core facial textures, clothing essentials, lockers in the school hallway, and natural details in wooded areas, which are fairly well defined even at night. The movie largely favors dark environments and handles black levels very well. Colors in brighter scenes are pleasing, favoring a robust neutrality that presents shades with little obvious tinkering, filtering, or other pushes away from normal. There are some spikes in noise in several lower light shots, notably a few at the 57-minute mark, but other source or encode maladies are essentially absent. This is a very nice presentation from Sony.
For this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack, surround channels carry some scattered, but effective, background ambience in school hallways and later in the movie during a ritual to summon Slender Man in chapter seven. Several action scenes towards the film's climax also deliver some substantial surround integration as well as a positive burst of low end energy. Conversely, some nicely integrated and surround intensive natural nighttime ambience that suddenly silences the title character's arrival prove effective, and the ringing bells are hauntingly a little more diffuse about the stage. Light, genre-typical stringy Horror score elements abound, stretching nicely through the stage and delivering positive clarity as necessary. Screams and other sounds of terror send chilling waves of intensity through the backs. The surrounds are also engaged with frequency to build a supportive sonic terror. Dialogue is clear and well prioritized with natural front-center location.
Slender Man contains a collection of previews for other Sony Blu-ray releases and a single featurette: Summoning 'Slender Man:' Meet the Cast (1080p, 9:04). This is a basic behind-the-scenes piece in which the primary cast and crew recount the story, talk about the title character and the four girls who appear in the film, and the cast shares the joys of working together. This release ships with a Movies Anywhere digital copy but does not ship with a DVD. The release ships with a non-embossed slipcover.
Slender Man is a slack and slogging Horror film that recycles already stale content and brings nothing new to the stable. The actors are spunky and spirited, but they cannot overcome one of the most trite genre films to release in some time. Sony's Blu-ray at least delivers a good technical experience, boasting quality 1080p video and an active 5.1 lossless soundtrack. Extras are unsurprisingly limited to a single supplement that mostly focuses on the film's strength: the four lead girls. Skip it.
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