Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)

A small town news team discovers a box of video tapes where a faceless figure dressed in a dark suit, haunts and torments a family... slowly driving them insane. Soon after, they realize that the "Operator" has begun to stalk them as well.

Director:

James Moran

Writers:

Ian Shorr (screenplay), Joseph DeLage (web series "Marble Hornets")

Stars:

Alexandra Breckenridge, Chris Marquette, Jake McDorman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alexandra Breckenridge	...	Sara
Chris Marquette	...	Milo Burns
Jake McDorman	...	Charlie MacNeel
Doug Jones	...	The Operator
Michael Bunin	...	Dan Wittlocke
Alexandra Holden	...	Rose Wittlocke
Morgan Bastin	...	Tara Wittlocke (as Morgan E. Bastin)
Elizabeth Payne	...	Barbara Sellers
Damon Gupton	...	Leonard Herring
Tim Seitter	...	Dean
Mark Christopher Lawrence	...	Gary Rockwell
Rick Otto	...	Sheriff Lee Dylan
David Pevsner	...	Kyle
Kathryn Gordon	...	Makaela
Cynthia Murell	...	Mary - Dancing Girl

Storyline

On the hunt for an intriguing news story, a small-town news team follows a crew inspecting repossessed houses. Inside a particularly strange house, the news team discovers a box of video tapes inside a locked closet. Sensing a story, they decide to take them back to their studio. From the tapes, they learn that the family who had lived in the house was not pushed out by the banks, but fled the house in fear for their lives. Trying to decode the story, the crew keeps seeing a faceless figure dressed in a dark suit appear in the footage that causes the videotape to scramble. Their fear mounts when this figure, The Operator as he is deemed, starts to appear in their real lives, standing quietly and always watching them. Tortured and terrorized, the three crew members must track down the mystery of The Operator before it's too late.

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Plot Keywords:

slenderman | slender man | hallucination | supernatural horror | news team | 

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Taglines:

You shouldn't have looked.

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some violence.

Did You Know?

Trivia

Angus Scrimm, better known as The Tall Man in the Phantasm films who has an appearance similar to The Operator/Slenderman has a very brief cameo as a patient in a psychiatric hospital.

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Connections

Spun-off from Marble Hornets (2009)

User Reviews

Slendy' "The Operator" got down-sized. :P

I give this Film a 2, just because I'm a massive fan of the 'Mable Hornets' web series ~ So it gets the first point for that alone, and, I give the extra point for Doug Jones' involvement with it (He's one of Hollywood's most underrated Stars, IMO). But that's it.

This Movie bears none of the originality, nor sinister foreboding contained within the outstanding 'Marble Hornets' web series. It's just very standard, bland, mediocre horror fare, that focuses way too much on God-awful jump scares, and not enough on creating actual paranoia based fear and eerie tension like the brilliant 'Marble Hornets' series did by the Fleet-load.

And our Slender Man/Operator has been shrunk down to the size of a regular Guy, who looks like He's had a hankie thrown over His face, who's only shown in pathetic static little blips. What a waste of the aforementioned awesome Doug Jones. You'd think that a Feature-length Movie featuring 'Slender Man'/'The Operator' would create a much more substantial monster than the one delivered here.

When a 0 budget monster, in a web series, is infinitely more terrifying than the one served up in a Movie ~ You know that Movie has failed on all fronts.

Go marathon 'Marble Hornets' right from the 'Introduction' video, and see how this sh*t is meant to be done! (Best viewed at Night, curtains open, with very hot black Coffee)

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 April 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Operator

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$714,058

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bellevue Productions, Mosaic

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1 / (high definition)