10 Movies That Instantly Told You They Were Garbage

Never has a movie began more cinematically than with a group of teenage girls hunched over a laptop screen, right?

While few were expecting much from Sony's Slender Man movie - especially after news broke that numerous key scenes were cut late in post-production - at least it could've offered up a few neat scares, right?

It'd make sense for the film to open with a poor sap falling victim to Slender Man and setting the tone for the rest of the story, but alas, it instead kicks off with the focal group of uninteresting teens waffling through a slew of inane banter at high school.

Later that evening, they all reconvene to discuss the legend of Slender Man, with the characters robotically explaining his form and powers with all the enthusiasm of somebody reading information off a screen - because that's precisely what happens.

It's fundamentally un-cinematic and about as boring a way to start a horror movie as one could imagine. There's no atmosphere, no tension, no nothing - beyond overpowering tedium, of course.

It speaks to a film that never substantially raises the pulse or justifies its own existence beyond cynically cashing in on a piece of legendary Internet lore.