10 Great Movie Monsters Trapped In Awful Horror Movies

Long before there was a film with his name on it, Slender Man haunted the minds and computer screens of the 21st-century teen, emerging as one of our first truly contemporary folklores.

A mysterious, elongated humanoid with a featureless face and a black suit, he hides in the background of photographs, stalks children in the forest and generally manipulates things from a distance. It makes sense then for a film adaptation to draw on what was a largely untapped and yet widely recognised well of terror.

But with the movie business being what it is, that is where the ingenuity began and ended. The film relied on the character's popularity to get bums on seats in the cinema, and left trivial concerns like story and scares for the birds. As a result, the film's plot is as thin as the titular character, with the frights egregiously few and far between. At its core though, Slender Man suffers from a similar ailment to Boogeyman, in that it offers up too much of its monster -- a monster who thrives in darkness, shadows and background scares.