History Film / SlenderMan

* AllThereInTheManual: A very strange example. Tom and Chloe's fates are left unclear in the film itself, but a trailer indicates [[spoiler:both committed suicide]] due to having to deal with the Slender Man. [[spoiler: This is confirmed in the official script.]]

* FacialHorror: At one point, a giant mass of tentacles burst out of one of the protagonist's mouth and [[EyeScream eyes]].

* InformedAbility: One of the girl's appears to be quite bitter about her friend being a trophy winning track team star. The audience never gets shown her running track and her actual running when she flees Slender Man is...not trophy worthy.
* JumpScare: Towards the end of the first trailer, the Slender Man pops up in front of a girl who's hiding from him behind a tree.

* KindheartedSimpleton: Chloe is this as while she did bring her death onto herself, she is still the sweetest person in this movie (next to Lizzie). Her childhood about her father is quite heartbreaking compared to the rest of her DesignatedHero friends. [[NothingIsScarier Whatever happened to her, even if she bought it on herself, it was probably awful]]. Thankfully, many people who actually liked this fans like to think she's still alive (abliet without any eyes).

* TooDumbToLive: Chloe, who was told several times not to remove her blindfold and gaze upon Slender Man for it can lead to death, madness, or worse, becomes startled when the girls second summoning ritual begins to work and immediately removes her blindfold to investigate. She is almost immediately driven to suicidal lunacy afterwards.

* AllThereInTheManual: A very strange example. Tom and Chloe's fates are left unclear in the film itself, but a trailer indicates [[spoiler:both committed suicide]] due to having to deal with the Slender Man.

The film is about a group of girls who are tormented by Slender Man after summoning him, and now must find a way to save their lives before he takes them.

** Also, while it seems to be confirmed Chloe probably commited suicide after the film ended, people who want to believe she survived have to deal with fact that while a ShrugOfGod confirms this, she did so by cutting out her eyes. This is movie is just something else ain't it.

* ShoutOut: One of the last scenes in the 2nd trailer is a direct homage to a scene in The Ring Two.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: Nowhere in the film does a boy walk off a building or a girl stab herself in class.

* {{Irony}}: On two different occasions, [[TheFaceless Slender Man]] utilizes a phone app called Face Time to haunt the main characters.
* InformedAbility: One of the girl's appears to be quite bitter about her friend being a trophy winning track team star. The audience never gets shown her running track and her actual running when she flees Slender Man is...not trophy worthy.

* {{Expy}}: Slender Man is ''[[CaptainErsatz far]]'' too similar to main other -- more iconic -- horror villains, more specifically; [[Literature/TheRing Samara Morgan]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] and [[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]].

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: During one sequence while Wren is being terrorized in the library, the Slenderman steals her face so she looks exactly like him.

* AndIMustScream: A likely fate for those captured by Slender Man. [[spoiler: In the end, Hallie is finally captured by Slender Man and is pulled against a tree, slowly being absorbed into it while fully conscience. The last sound heard from her after complete assimilation is achieved is her crying out for her sister, Lizzie.]]
* TheBlank: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Slenderman, obviously]]. Wren also temporarily gets her face stolen while she's being terrorized.

** He also draws a ''lot'' of parallels towards [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall The Beast]]. Specifically the fact that they're both [[WhenTreesAttack evil tree things]], [[HopeCrusher drive people to mental illness]], [[StalkerWithoutACrush have a tendency to stalk our main protagonists]] and [[AndIMustScream turns people into trees]].

* EyeScream: There's a scene where the class is dissecting eyeballs, complete with close up.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:[[spoiler:Chloe's death]] ''would'' be a case of this, but [[MissingTrailerScene the scene was ultimately removed from the theatrical cut.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: Slendy himself, who else?

* WhenTreesAttack: Slender Man (in the film at least) is a walking, humanoid tree. He also has power over tree branches and the sounds of tree branches snapping and contorting accompanies him whenever he moves.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: No where in the film does a boy walk off a building or a girl stab herself in class.

* ExcusePlot: Slenderman is stalking, psychologically tormenting and killing a bunch of teenagers because they summoned him on a whim. Go!

* SpiderLimbs: Slender Mans tentacles turn into rigid spider limbs when chasing Hallie.

* TooDumbToLive: Chloe, who was told several times not to remove her blindfold and gaze upon Slenderman for it can lead to death, madness, or worse, becomes startled when the girls second summoning ritual begins to work and immediately removes her blindfold to investigate. She is almost immediately driven to suicidal lunacy afterwards.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Due to the cut scenes from the film, the exact fates of Chloe and Tom remain undisclosed from the film proper. While the removed scene of [[spoiler:Chloe committing suicide out of madness, along with the fact that Lizzie groups Chloe up along with her dead friends/sister, can give an explanation to those willing to accept that it happened off screen,]] Toms fate is never seen or even mentioned by anyone but looking at the trailer, one can assume [[spoiler:he also committed suicide by jumping off a bridge]].

* DrivenToSuicide: We see a girl stab herself with a knife in the middle of a class, splattering another girl in her blood and a boy walk off of a roof in [[DaylightHorror broad daylight]]. It is safe to assume that the Slender Man [[BrainwashedAndCrazy is influencing these events in some form]] due to the fact that the girl is clearly hesitant to go through with the act, but does so anyways.

The film is about a group of girls who are toremented by Slender Man after summoning him, and now must find a way to save their lives before he takes them.

** [[spoiler: Although it’s a bit of a subversion as while she intended to sacrifice herself, when Slender Man is actually about to take her, she freaks out and tries to run for her life, not that it does her any good. She certainly does not FaveDeathWithDignity.]]