10 Awful 2018 Horror Movies To Avoid This Halloween

10. Slender Man

Slender Man Joey King
Sony

Living down to just about everybody's basement-low-expectations, this adaptation of the hit "creepypasta" meme squanders its already meagre potential with generically inane teen protagonists, a neutered PG-13 rating and a hackjob final edit which cuts numerous key scenes (reportedly due to PR pressure over the real-life Slender Man stabbing).

A few mildly stylish moments aside, this doesn't even work as an accidental laugh riot: it's just soullessly bland for the most part, and one of Hollywood's more cynical recent attempts to forge a horror icon without the requisite effort.

There certainly could've been a decent Slender Man movie, but with Sylvain "Stomp the Yard" White at the helm, was that ever going to be the case here?

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