Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

Thus film just failed on all levels. Had some creepy scenes but they failed with me because i was so annoyed by the stupid characters and how they reacted to situations. Wasted my time thats for sure.

The title of the review speaks for itself.

At this point the Found Film Footage genre is getting tired and old, only because these writers and directors aren't giving us anything we haven't seen already. They think that with the same scares, same annoying actors and same shaky camera with a whole new entity or monster will be a good idea. Wrong.

There was nothing interesting about this film, except they thought it was a good idea. The special effects seem cheesy, but something tells me that's what they were going for, but it didn't work even if that were the case. Once again the characters were unlikable and that seems to be a recurring theme since The Blair Witch Project.

You would think that a movie based upon the most popular creepypasta, Slenderman, would be a good thing. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.

The film seems it would be good to those of a younger age, which this film is not targeted with, with it's R rating. The film could have easily been a PG-13. It might be good for a watch if your high, but I wouldn't recommend it regardless.

I'm a pretty big fan of the "Marble Hornets" YouTube series. Gotta say though, this was a pretty big letdown.

None of the personality, intrigue, or clever storytelling of the original series makes it into the movie.

Average at best. But considering how strong the OG stuff was, this is a pile of crap.

Okay, the big point of contention about this movie revolves around the Marble Hornets tag. For those not in the know, Marble Hornets was an ongoing, found footage web series, that spanned several years and many hours. You can catch it for free on YouTube. Without going into any detail, it was basically a found footage college project, that started getting a bit spooky and going horribly wrong. It was very well done, but did get very, very convoluted and confusing towards the end.

This movie had absolutely no connection to the web series, and would probably have done better if it was not associate with Marble Hornets. The only common thread is the character, The Operator, who was basically a representation of the Creepy Pasta character, The Slenderman. Had they run with the Slenderman storyline, it may have been more accepted than associating itself to the Marble Hornets name, which has an avid following. Putting aside the differences, as a stand alone movie, it is average, if not a little predictable, hence the 5 stars.

This is what is scary about this movie: its 90 minutes of annoying people screaming at each other. Every two minutes is a jump scare. This story is terrible. Slenderman has nothing to do at all in this movie. He just stands around. He isn't even most of the jump scares.

It isn't often you have so many lead characters that have nothing about them that you like.

Skips this one. It's too late for me. Save yourself.