Deformities cited as film defects by officials. Fire at library occurred one week later. Actual photograph confiscated as evidence. Knudsen has said that he Photoshopped into the above image the Tall Man from the horror movie Phantasm.
On the left is a close-up look at the figure in the earlier image. This is the other of the two original Slender Man photos created by Eric Knudsen. A black and white picture has been doctored to include Slender Man in the background. Original Caption: "We didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time…" — , photographer unknown, presumed dead.
Like the supernatural monster himself, the Slender Man movie is not based on a true story. The script by David Birke is a work of fiction inspired by the Slender Man legend. The Slender Man murders in the movie were not based on the Slender Man stabbing, nor does the movie reference the incident.
However, the father of Anissa Weier, one of the attackers in the stabbing, has called the horror film "extremely distasteful," saying that the movie is "popularizing a tragedy.
The petition currently has over 19, signatures. The trailer for the movie depicts schoolgirls who are haunted by the character, with one stabbing herself in the eye. The higher-ups at Sony are worried about further blowback on social media should the release proceed as planned.
Those who have been tricked into believing that Slender Man is real sometimes point to "evidence" that Slender Man sightings date back to 16th-century Germany. They often refer to the woodcut pictured below left. According to the story spread on the Internet, he was a fairy who lived in the Black Forest and would chase bad children who crept into the woods at night. A little research reveals that the image has been doctored.
It's actually a print of a 16th-century Hans Holbein woodcut that shows a two-legged skeleton Death driving a lance into a knight. Fans trying to give the legend credibility have doctored images like this print of a 16th-century woodcut by Hans Holbein.
While exploring Slender Man's origins, we learned that creator Eric Knudsen cited several sources as being the inspiration for his supernatural character. Lovecraft, Stephen King specifically his short stories , the surreal imaginings of William S. Burroughs, and a couple games of the survival horror genre; Silent Hill and Resident Evil ," Knudsen told a blogger during an interview.
The 6'7" actor has Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that results in increased height, in addition to long arms, fingers, legs and toes. Botet's physical characteristics and affinity for acting helped him land roles in films like REC , Crimson Peak and The Conjuring 2 Actor Javier Botet lurks in the woods as Slender Man in the movie left.
The 6'7" actor is pictured in real life right. The Slender Man murders in the movie are fictional and are in no way tied to real events. However, there was an attempted murder that was linked to the Slender Man fiction. It occured in Waukesha, Wisconsin on May 31, Two year-old girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, stabbed their friend Payton Leutner 19 times after luring her into the woods and holding her down during a game of hide-and-seek.
They told police they did it to appease Slender Man. As far as millions of Americans were concerned, this was the beginning, middle, and end of the Slender Man story. The movie does not tell the story of the crimes committed by Anissa and Morgan; in the trailer, however, young girls are motivated to do horrible things by their connection to Slender Man.
Another, hollow-eyed, covered in blood, wanders numbly out of a forest, greeted by swirling cop cars. The camera pans down to her hands before fading to black: It is heavily implied she is carrying a knife. You could imagine how someone, somewhere, might recoil. The petition was started on a progressive social advocacy platform called Care2 by a woman named Alison Perris.
Screen Gems, the division of Sony responsible for Slender Man , seems a little queasy about its investment. The film is in no way a dramatization of any real life individuals or events. I wondered about this, so I decided to reach out to Waukesha, the town directly affected by the tragedy. Did they think the movie should be halted from release? Shawn Reilly, the mayor, declined to comment on the record, and numerous requests for comment went unanswered from the city council and the office of the DA.
I was left with the question: Is Screen Gems, in fact, exploiting a tragedy, seeking box office returns from the blood of a real preteen girl? Is the movie dangerous? Or are they simply five years too late on a meme? And the real question: Do kids even care about Slender Man anymore? As for the triggering possibilities of this movie, Blanks seems doubtful.
McNeill agrees. There is another jokey offshoot, a well-dressed ghoul, called Splendorman. People still make fan art and new stories about Slender Man, but activity has gradually tapered off. Still, the spectre of the Waukesha stabbings haunts The Mythos in ugly and unsettling ways.
But, she insists, Slender Man has been such a valuable creative outlet for so many that she refuses to vilify or condemn it. Guns, after all, are deadlier when they shoot faster; cars more dangerous at higher speeds. One particularly clever image is a modified woodcut. In the original, a skeleton takes a child from its parents, perhaps into death. In the modified version, the skeleton has long arms and legs and its misshapen skull is hidden by the eaves of the house.
Over the intervening months, SomethingAwful posters and fan fiction enthusiasts added to the corpus. He gained a specific definition, courtesy of a poster on Yahoo Answers in , two years after the original posts:. Slenderman is a product of this century.
He appears and havoc follows. He murders in undescribed ways or he compels others to murder. He is a dark god in an age of digital media and he fills the empty place between the news and the unknown. The key word there is terror. Slenderman does not directly kill his victims.
Instead, he encourages others to in order to please him. Interestingly, the places he haunts are all but gone now. Thanks to breathless news coverage of murder and mayhem, children are rarely allowed to wander in woods alone or play in abandoned buildings.
In fact, that he exists at all is a testament to the eerie pull of these places. In a world that no longer harbors nameless dread, in which every monster has a name and GPS coordinates, he is a welcome refuge into the imagination. One popular video game created around the mythos involves walking through a darkened forest surrounded by chain-link fence.
All you have to do is find eight pieces of paper tacked to nearby trees. As you find the papers, the buzzing of crickets and the rustling of the photorealistic trees changes to a steady pounding.
Slenderman is afoot. You simply disappear in a cloud of electronic snow. Forums and video series were filled with fan fiction and content. The quality varies widely but it has grown oddly popular. One popular web series, MarbleHornets, is described as found footage of a man haunted by Slenderman.
Most of the footage is mundane b-roll of woods and country roads. Then, every so often, Slenderman appears by fuzzing out the screen or pushing one of the characters into a violent coughing fit. Wanting to find out the draw, I asked on the forums and chat rooms for input on the phenomenon. Another poster said they liked Slenderman because he was relentless:.
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