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

The creature in the story is never referred to as the "Slender Man," though the creator of the web series admits it was inspired by the legend.

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Connections

Spun-off from Marble Hornets (2009)

User Reviews

Never Watching: Not a Marble Hornets Story

Did the creators of this movie just go, "We'll get permission to do a 'spinoff' of Marble Hornets, loosely 'borrow' their Slenderman-type villain's name and symbol, make a couple blink-and-you'll-miss-them references to the web series... and that way, we won't get too much crap for trying to make our own Slenderman found-footage move."

Because that plan totally backfired. This is not a Marble Hornets story. They totally screwed up how the Operator works, and with the exception of one tiny reference to the Alex Kralie character, this movie has nothing to do with Marble Hornets canon.

What would've been better is if they'd gotten Joe and Tim to write an actual Marble Hornets movie, and still kept Doug Jones as the Operator.

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)