Wren continued to be tormented by hallucinations inflicted on her by the Slender Man and continues to try to find a solution to her wows. Upon catching a glimpse of the Slender Man, Chloe becomes insane. Despite her warning, Chloe panics and pulls off her blindfold. She warns them to keep a blindfold over their eyes because directly looking at the Slender Man would make them go insane. A week after the disappearance, the remaining girls investigate her room, discovering that she was researching the Slender Man prior.Īfter communicating with one of the users on the website, Wren tells Chloe and Hallie that they needed to sacrifice something that they loved in order to get Katie back. After the four girls watch a video on a site dedicated to the monster, Katie ends up disappearing a week later. Unbeknownst to them, they would end up chickening out of fear. The film begins with four high school friends - Wren, Hallie, Chloe, and Katie respectively - decide to summon Slender Man after overhearing some of their male friends aiming to do so. His hallucinations are also very nightmarish and are arguably his most sadistic and cruelest moments in the film. He is rather determined in his goals, snatching up Wren at the best time when she's vulnerable after tormenting her, and viciously chasing Hallie through the woods. While his canon namesake is mostly emotionless (though capable of cruelty) this version of Slender Man is quite sadistic and very monstrous, as he toys with Hallie and her friends by torturing them and bending reality, all while making them slowly go insane. From a distance he appears to be wearing a business suit, however, close inspection reveals that this exterior is his skin. His arms and fingers are elongated relative to his torso. Theaters in Milwaukee will not be screening the movie.Slender Man's appearance is largely consistent with his internet origins as an impossibly tall and thin humanoid figure with white skin and no face. The attack inspired an HBO documentary in 2016 called Beware the Slenderman. The three girls were 12 to 13 at the time. Slender Man has received some criticism for "capitalizing" on the 2014 stabbing of Payton Leutner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where two young girls lured their classmate into the woods to kill her as an offering to the fictional specter, The Hollywood Reporter reported in January. Knudsen is credited in the film as the creator of Slender Man. The monster is on screen for a majority of the movie and this does nothing to enhance the fear of the audience. The original pictures created for a real-life photoshop contest on a Something Awful forum in 2009 by Eric Knudsen are treated as real. However, in this version the monster is real. The movie could have followed the path of Scream or Cabin in the Woods-films that poked fun at themselves while being genuinely scary-as a meta reimagining of a boogeyman created entirely by the internet. He is a "shadow person," a twisted Pied Piper, but he is not particularly frightening. The legend of Slender Man is that of a tall tree-like figure that preys on children and lures them into the woods. Joey King (Wren) and Julia Goldani-Telles (Hallie) in Screen Gems' SLENDER MAN. He uses them to chase Hallie through the forest like Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man. In one scene, Slender Man's branch-like tentacles sprout from his back. The characters compare him to "a computer virus that infects your hard drive, but it's not a hard drive. Once you see Slender Man, you can never get him out of your head. Hallie is resistant to believe that her and her friends are being hunted by Slender Man even when those around her, including her younger sister, begin to devolve into madness. The plot is contained entirely by horror tropes: teenagers inspect a mysterious noise when they should call the police they dabble in the occult and summon an evil spirit and they run through the woods from an unseen pursuer. In their frantic search to find their friend, each girl becomes increasingly erratic as they are haunted by dreams and hallucinations of a menacing figure. They do this to prove that the urban legend is fake, but when one of the girls goes missing a week later they begin to suspect the opposite. One night Hallie and her friends decide to "summon" Slender Man by watching a cryptic video on an internet forum. Wren (Joey King) is terrorized by Slender Man while researching "paranormal" activity in Screen Gems' SLENDER MAN.
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