Taylor Richardson Lizzie as Lizzie. Kevin Chapman Mr. Jensen as Mr. Miguel Nascimento Kyle as Kyle. Kris Sidberry Librarian as Librarian. Angela Hope Smith Nurse as Nurse. Damon D'Amico Jr. Student as Student. Sylvain White. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. When their friend mysteriously disappears, a group of teenage girls explore whether the culprit could be the creepy internet urban legend character Slenderman by summoning him with a ritual.
They begin experiencing supernatural phenomena that make them believe the story is real and that they are now being haunted by the Slenderman. Directed by Sylvain White. Based on the character created by Eric "Victor Surge" Knudsen. Rated PG for disturbing images, sequences of terror, thematic elements and language including some crude sexual references. Did you know Edit. Trivia The tall doctor at the hospital, the one Hallie saw in the very dark corridor is the 6'6" tall actor Javier Botet, who also portrayed the Slender Man.
Quotes Wren : He gets in your head like a virus. User reviews Review. Top review. How to ruin a completely simple formula. It's not Slenderman himself that's scary, it's the alone-in-the-dark deafening silence and dread that made the game frightening. Freddy Krueger was scary in the first Nightmare because they didn't focus on the character, but rather the psychological terror. And I think this is a great example of, like, literally passed from person to person, and the second person is iterating.
I just think there's something so novel about the spookiness of it all. Ben: Troy and his crew were the ones responsible for some of the lore commonly associated with Slender Man now. Troy: The way that we made The Operator in the series, like, we didn't explain squat about it. We didn't say, Oh, you know, he's a ghost of a business man, you know?
I don't know, like, we didn't overly explain anything, it was just, he's there. Bad things happen when he's there. Now we're going to focus on what the characters are going to do about it. Being unmoored from an origin allowed people to fill in the blanks themselves of who Slender Man was, what he did, and what he wanted. Ben: Amanda says it used to be that Hollywood told us what to be scared of — same with eons-old urban legends. But Slender Man started online and then transcended the online space.
Amanda: Thinking about horror as a genre — it's a lot of the same story retold over and over again, and there is something about Slender Man that is markedly different because he came from the internet.
And I think it's also kind of a democratization — almost like, you don't need to be a giant film franchise to scare people. Amory: Hollywood did get in on the Slender Man craze, though. A movie made in brought in over 50 million dollars at the box office — by following the trend, not starting it. Over time, Slender Man has also inspired fan fiction, erotica. Somebody even came up with an older origin story from Germany, which lended some pre-internet credibility to the monster.
Ben: There was some goofiness that got added over time, too. Slender Man got incorporated into My Little Pony fandom Ben: But for some people, there wasn't anything fun or funny about Slender Man.
Amory: The next time you find yourself wide awake in the middle of the night, scan the AM airwaves of your radio and you just might stumble upon this Do you have to be a special person to see these entities or have these entities approach you? I mean-- ". Heidi: I'm an author, researcher and podcast host all on anything out of the ordinary, from angels to Aliens, Hat Man to shadow people, all of the above and all the in-betweens.
Amory: Slender Man genuinely scared Heidi because of what he reminded her of — a different paranormal phenomenon. She started getting calls not long after images of Slender Man appeared on the internet. Heidi: Believe it or not, I had people reaching out to me saying, Heidi, is this your stuff, because this resembles Hat Man.
And I'm like, Well, let's see: he's wearing a suit, he likes to approach children, and he causes terror wherever he goes. Yeah, that looks pretty much like a Hat Man phenomenon. Heidi: So Hat Man is this guy that wears a three piece suit, generally, sometimes he wears a trench coat. Other times he has a cape.
Sometimes he has a hat on. Most of the time he does. And he does like to go after children quite a bit. And there's also another phenomena that surrounds him called shadow people. He seems to direct these black, shadowy minions, if you will. And for her, Hat Man is definitely real.
You, like us, might be a little skeptical of that perspective. Amory: So Heidi believes in Hat Man. And, she says, turning real evil into fictional viral, meme-ified internet evil is dangerous. Heidi: Just to think of, you know, making something fictional of such a threat to humankind and people's souls, acknowledging where it came from, acknowledging that this is a real phenomenon, and acknowledging it's something that is actually going on in the world.
And you slapped a different title on it. So I wish that definitely that that message had gotten across. Ben: But Lynne McNeill has a different message she wants to get across and a different perspective on the whole Slender Man conversation.
Lynne is a folklore professor at Utah State University. Lynne: I teach Slender Man as a great example of creepypasta, of digital folklore, of legendry and of internet meme. Lynne: I've certainly been asked by many, many young people, Is Slender Man real?
And that's an interesting question for a folklorist to get, because folklorists love to dodge that question. We like to point out we are not cryptozoologists, we are not Bigfoot hunters, we're not ghost hunters or paranormal investigators. We actually are not always interested in, Is this true? We think there's many more interesting questions to ask — the main one being, Why does the story persist? Amory: Lynne thinks part of why a figure like Slender Man has persisted is that he represents something bigger than a spindly man in a suit.
Lynne: Any successful piece of folklore is likely to be tapping into tropes and motifs that have already withstood the test of time. So in both folk tradition and popular culture, we've seen some Slender Man-like figures. The Pied Piper is a great example — someone who lures children away much to the, you know, grief and horror of their parents.
Lynne: Internet memes are probably one of the biggest forms of digital folklore because they're so concise and efficient in their communication of traditional ideas. You see it, you take it in, you get the impact. The message is succinct and well articulated. And here's the thing: because of the self-correcting nature of folklore, due to its dynamic variation, if a meme isn't especially poignant and succinct, someone's going to fix it until it is.
And that's one of the best things about folklore, is that it is constantly evolving and updating itself to remain relevant. Amory: So Slender Man, according to Lynne, is both a meme and folklore. Lynne: Legend stands out as being about possibility and probability.
Good lord. Slender Man might be scary, but the impact of fake news—or in this case, fake urban-legend-inspired news—is even scarier. The Slender Man film came out last year, which is yeah a controversial move on the part of Sony Pictures considering a child almost died when two other children took the horror story way too seriously.
Weier definitely has a point. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Your Sex Horoscope for the Weekend. Attention: Paris!
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