Stickman

I honestly enjoyed this movie,which is saying a lot when SYFY movies (and Canadian),are usually so bad.The acting was excellent and convincing,special effects were way above SYFY standard effects,as was the cinematography. Yes the story line was cliche'd as was the ending,but lets face it,you didn't watch it thinking this was going to be a masterpiece.I'm not going to sit here and over analylise it as one reviewer has,it's not that sort of movie,seriously dude,get a life.Take this movie for what it is,a pretty good horror movie worth a watch,enjoy.

We have all seen that horror movie where some dumb girlfriend goes into the creepy dark monster dungeon looking for her equally dumb boyfriend who was just killed by the monster only to be killed by the very same monster as punishment for being dumb. That is this movie, so you have already seen this movie. If I had to write a 2 page essay on the topic of what was unique about this movie, I would receive a failing grade. There is pretty much no question that this is a somewhat late attempt to cash in on the slenderman meme. If I had to describe the personalities of the lead characters in this film, the phrase "very afraid and doesn't want to die" would be used repeatedly. Many characters literally have no distinguishing personality traits beyond that. At least in crappy 80s horror there would be the jock and the bimbo and the nerd and the coward etc. Different characters to create some variety and keep that character interactions dynamic. The monster itself is a cartoon and the practical effects were basically the bare minimum (blood splatter, corpse without its head, etc.). Expect a lot of off screen deaths.

Perfect middle of the day, off from work, nothing else on type of movie. Not bad, but not great either. On par with Crooked Man. Nowhere near as good as The Babadook.

I went into this with no bias, no expectations. Pleasantly surprised and entertained. Sure, this is a made for TV movie and no it's not star studded.....big deal. If you are truly a fan of the genre then celebrate all the efforts! I recommend this based on the story alone...no expectations.

For a tv movie this is not too bad. The acting and script are a bit shoddy in places, but it is worth a watch. Definitely not the worse horror out there. I give this 4 out of 10 because horror is my preffered genre and there ars many greats. 4 being enjoyable but by no means great. If this had a bigger budget and a better script then could have been 5-6