Slender Man
Upon its release in August 2018, the film "Slender Man", despite being declared a box-office bomb and receiving both little marketing and overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, went on to gross several times its $10 million budget worldwide. David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a D, writing "a tasteless and inedibly undercooked serving of the Internet's stalest creepypasta, "Slender Man" aspires to be for the YouTube era what "The Ring" was to the last gasps of the VHS generation. But... there's one fundamental difference that sets the two movies apart: "The Ring" is good, and "Slender Man" is terrible." Writing for "The Verge", Carli Velocci called the Slender Man movie "a nail in the coffin of a dying fandom".