Slender Man Video Game

[Gwen]

The design is brilliant, and how it's used is brilliant. But then you see the whole thing (such as when it's floating off through space) it looks pretty pants and I'm guessing it wasn't too expensive to pull off the actual Alien (as in the costume itself). And even if it was, you could still use it today (in a budget film) and be fine if they rest of the film was good enough that you didn't care the monster didn't look amazing.

My point is that low-budget horror films are normally terrible before you even see the monster or they use really really bad CG instead of a 'decent-ish' puppet.

Bringing it back to Slender Man, if you simply never saw him but was just aware he was there until the end, what he looked like would be really unimportant. How you use a monster will always out trump what it looks like and you can get away with a monster looking crap if you know what you're doing.

Even though Paranormal Activity isn't seen as a great film by many (and it's sequels are god awful) it managed to scare people with nothing more than a few thuds and bangs because it used the craft well (even if it used very cliché material).

The only people I've ever seen scared by P.A. are people under 14, and my sister, but she's terrible with horror movies eheheh.