Not only was he forced to compromise his creative vision, but audiences were left with a nearly unintelligible finished film that ends abruptly without concluding several of its own subplots. Having already faced bad luck with studio-backed horror pictures in 2006, when the director was infamously given only two weeks to prepare for the production of I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, White once again got the short end of the stick. Sylvain apparently dealt with loads of studio interference during the project, with producers eventually demanding that he cut the picture down to a PG-13 rating and remove many scenes that had already been featured in the trailer.
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It’s easy to dismiss this failure as yet another case of “bad movie results in bad reviews”, but there was more going behind the scenes than most people seem to realize. While the film wasn’t exactly a box office failure, there was a notable drop in ticket sales as word-of-mouth began to spread and audiences realized that this wasn’t the internet-based scary movie that they had been waiting for. Scoring 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.2/10 on IMDB (plus a Golden Raspberry “award” for Jaz Sinclair), it’s clear that neither critics nor audiences really connected with this retelling of the Slender Man story. Joey King (Wren) and Julia Goldani-Telles (Hallie) in Screen Gems’ Slender Man. Starring Joey King, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso and more as an ensemble of teenagers who find themselves being stalked by the titular entity (played by genre veteran Javier Botet), Slender Man takes quite a bit of inspiration from The Ring when adapting this eerie meme for a brand-new audience.īoasting talented young actors, extremely stylish directing and a script informed by years of online folklore surrounding the internet’s most recognizable monster, the long-awaited film appeared to be destined for success.
Nevertheless, Sylvain White’s take on this seminal internet legend managed to make an impact, though it probably wasn’t what the director and producers had intended. The real mystery here is why it took so long for a big studio to finally tackle the faceless menace, with Sony’s 2018 film being preceded by nearly a decade of viral memes, YouTube channels and even extremely successful videogames. This time, we’ll be discussing 2018’s Slender Man!įrom winning a spooky photoshop competition to becoming a worldwide phenomenon in just a few short years, it’s no wonder that Eric Knudsen’s infamous Slender Man would eventually find its way to the big screen. Even the worst films can boast a good idea or two, and that’s why we’re trying to look on the bright side with Silver Lining Horrors, where we shine a light on the best parts of traditionally maligned horror flicks. Watching a bad movie doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad experience. The doc opened in limited theaters on October 1 and comes to VOD platforms October 5. “It started off being a little frustrating, but it all worked out,” Hudson adds.
Which is really hard for me to sort of come to grips with. “The character originally comes in on page 6, now he’s on page 68. “Somebody dropped the script off… it was actually the night before we started shooting,” Hudson explains in the below clip. As Hudson has explained over the years, Zeddemore originally appeared early on in the movie, but those plans changed after he came on board. The documentary recounts the story behind the classic 1984 comedy that starred Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray.Įrnie Hudson takes center stage in this exclusive clip from Anthony Bueno‘s documentary, recalling the frustration of his character, Winston Zeddemore, being cut back so drastically from his originally scripted incarnation. Screen Media is bringing an extended version of the definitive Ghostbusters doc, Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, to VOD platforms this coming Tuesday.