Slender Man will open in theaters on August 10. Movies based around the Slenderman myth include Windigo (2011), Hylo (2012), Proxy (2012), Entity (2013) and Always Watching (2015), the latter featuring Doug Jones (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) as the creature. His mythology expanded and spread, seen alternately as a malevolent figure and a guardian angel, spawning fan fiction, artwork, games, videos and several low-budget feature films. And with creepypasta icons like Slender Man, Candle Cove, Robert the Doll. Slenderman was created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (alias “Victor Surge”) as part of a 2009 Photoshop contest, shown lurking behind children in two black-and-white photos. Every Friday, we send out an email with the scariest horror movies and TV. In 2014, he inspired real-life horror as two 12-year-old American girls in Wisconsin lured a friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in an effort to “appease” the fictional entity. Almost immediately after its release, its Rotten Tomatoes score for critics was set to 11, rising steadily to 18 in 2019, a score that is still considered extremely low for the website.
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When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, HIS latest victim.įor the uninitiated, Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictitious character/creepypasta meme of an abnormally tall, faceless man with long arms who stalks and abducts children. The Slender Man movie is generally hated by both critics and audiences.
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In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. In 2015 we got treated to the incredible real-life crime doc, The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst. Screen Gems has released a new trailer for their upcoming horror film, Slender Man, based on the internet phenomenon that has a self explanatory name but a terrifying visage.ĭirected by Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard, The Losers), the film stars J oey King, Julia Goldani-Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, and Javier Botet. The first trailer for HBO’s new documentary, The Slender Man has just dropped, and it looks terrifying HBO have been dishing out some fantastic crime documentaries for years.