Review – The Empty Man

Never have I seen a movie drop so precipitously in quality from the beginning to the end. The opening act was purely awesome, cerebral and visceral and genuinely scary. I assumed this would be yet another dumb take on the Slender Man thing, so I started actually paying attention to it when it turned out to be something much better. When the main story commences, it sustains that wonderful sense of eerie, undefined menace. The plot begins to meander around midway through, but it still packed enough frightening moments to keep things moving. Oh but then the goddamn end. It was like they used everything they had on the set-up, couldn’t come up with a punch line and instead unleashed the shaggy dogs. What a disappointment. Mildly amusing