Issa has a few problems. Missing Father, Early Onset Schziophrenia, and a mysterious man following her everywhere. Is he a result of her illness, or is he real?
... he's totally real.
This Script Provides Examples Of:
- Adults Are Useless: Most of the parents are missing, dead, or are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to the problems plaguing the main characters.
- Creepy Children Singing:
- Ironic Nursery Tune: The credits features both of these.
- Deadpan Snarker: Issa.
- Psychologist: Would you like to talk about something else for the rest of this session?Issa: Well I got a D in my math test, and that made me feel sad.
- Disappeared Dad: Issa's father is never mentioned or seen.
- Death by Pragmatism: Averted. When Nick suggests if they just got away from Issa they'd be fine, he is berated by Claire. However, he is the only on-screen character to make it to the end of the film.
- Dont Go Intothe Woods: All dream sequences and death sequences feature trees.
- Final Girl: Played with. The one you'd expect to be the Final Girl Almost makes it to the end of the movie.
- Gilligan Cut:
- Susan: Sorry about the wait. My limo driver couldn't work out where to park.Cut to: Said limo, which is a 93 Saturn.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It starts off with Issa's supernatural stalker being a side effect of her schizophrenia. Then her friends start having the same problem. Then people start dying.
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: Averted. There are only two males but they both live.
- Police Are Useless: Discussed.
- Issa: And after we [call the police] what will they do? They'll just take me back to the mental hospital. I'm not looking forward to that.
- The Adjectival Man: Slender Man.
- The Faceless: Slender Man, by trade.
- The Voiceless: Slender Man, of course.
