
Apparently Sylvain White (director) and David Birke (screenwriter) didn't get the memo. The tormenting figment of our minds is spooky enough to carry throughout 90 minutes of film with flashes here and there. We laud what the Creepypasta community has done to up the ante with the character originally created by Victor Surge (properly credited at the end of the film as an early billing), and there have been positively freaky spins on the subject matter such as the YouTube project Marble Hornets, yet there have also been negative effects attributed to the character in the attempted murder in Wisconsin by prepubescent female friends.

Much like the Blair Witch, Slender Man has always been scarier as an idea within the lore built around it than as a literal and physical presence of it.
