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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#1: Jan 2nd 2018 at 8:56:06 PM

I'm going to preface this by saying that this is the legitimate, official Slender Man movie. This isn't some random internet film made about Slender Man, this is an actual theatrical release based off of the internet character. The film comes out May 18, 2018 and will be directed by Sylvain White (director of Stomp The Yard) and star Jaz Sinclair and Joey King.

https://screenrant.com/slender-man-movie-poster-trailer/

Here's a link to some info for the movie and the film's poster, the trailer drops sometime tomorrow. For some reason this article is reporting that Slender Man's creator had a hand in the script but I'm not finding any info on that. I'm...decidedly mixed on this. Slender Man's popularity hasn't exactly been high in recent years, so I'm worried it'll be a case of being released too late or something.

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BigK1337 Since: Jun, 2012
#2: Jan 2nd 2018 at 9:11:09 PM

Another one? Have we not learned anything from The Tall Man and Kaka Pee Pee Man (because the officialy name Bye Bye Man is too silly), now we are doing an actual Slenderman movie?

Well it couldn’t be that bad . . . the guy who directed Stomp the Yard is doing this film. Yeah my confidence in this movie doing good has dropped. Not to mention he also directed The Losers, aka Ateam Lite.

Sooo, I don’t think this film will be good in the end especially seeing how the whole Creepypasta fad have died out as of lately.

Y’know, this actually makes me more confident in my take of Slenderman who is basically an agent for a SCP/SHIELD agency who actually monitors the people with omega level powers and whose personality and motives are a cross between Phantom Stranger and Dale Cooper. Speaking of the former, I would of love to see a live action Phantom Stranger movie.

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#3: Jan 2nd 2018 at 9:42:25 PM

It’d be hard to do a movie all about the guy who does the “ I don’t get involved, I just give the heroes oblique clues.”

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#4: Jan 3rd 2018 at 4:37:30 AM

I imagine this the film will involve lots of Found Footage,a lot like The Blair Witch Project

Aaand here it is,the trailer

edited 3rd Jan '18 6:41:51 AM by Ultimatum

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Jan 3rd 2018 at 7:21:02 AM

They should just pay the Marble Hornets people for the rights to their story.

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#6: Jan 3rd 2018 at 8:05:41 AM

They already did a Marble Hornets film,

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#7: Jan 3rd 2018 at 8:07:52 AM

That looks... OK? I can't conclude anything from it except that I don't want to get stabbed in the eyes like that.

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thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#8: Jan 3rd 2018 at 8:10:35 AM

Is there...any way you WOULD like to be stabbed in the eyes ?

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#10: Jan 3rd 2018 at 1:45:32 PM

They did a Marble Hornets film with none of the Marble Hornets story.

So yeah...

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#11: Jan 3rd 2018 at 3:28:18 PM

Okay I legitimately cannot tell if I like or dislike that trailer. On the one hand it did kinda creep me out (but of course anything with somebody gouging their own eye out will do that). On the other hand I also felt like it might have been trying too hard to be creepy.

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hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#12: Jan 3rd 2018 at 4:23:57 PM

Wait, but why is this a movie though? Who asked for this? And isn't it a little late?

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Jan 3rd 2018 at 4:27:25 PM

Eh, Slenderman is a perfectly valid monster like Dracula.

You can use him as much as you want.

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#14: Jan 3rd 2018 at 6:14:50 PM

How relevant is Dracula these days?

ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
#15: Jan 3rd 2018 at 7:53:15 PM

In the last 10 years, there have been 7 Dracula movies.

edited 3rd Jan '18 7:55:05 PM by ArthurEld

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#16: Jan 3rd 2018 at 8:06:59 PM

Monster movies will always be a thing. The Slenderman is just a more recent entry into that spectrum of ideas than the classic monsters. Only time will tell if it manages to last like the others.

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#17: Jan 4th 2018 at 3:48:35 AM

I don't think its bad concept for Internet creation to become recurring pop culture public domain thingy, I mean, if public domain laws are fixed Mickey Mouse should be one already [lol]

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#18: Jan 4th 2018 at 7:20:56 AM

The big question is if anyone owns Slenderman.

There were attempts to copyright him.

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#19: Jan 4th 2018 at 7:50:15 AM

...yeah, am I the only person who thinks this movie is in incredibly poor taste? Maybe it’s just because of what happened in my hometown... 🤦‍♂️

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#20: Jan 4th 2018 at 8:04:31 AM

I feel like, after Logan Paul thing, this is a bad time for a Slender Man film to come out. I don't know if there'd really be a good time either given the myth became associated with an actual murder.

That said, if horror movies represent what society is currently afraid of then an all-white, black-suited monster man hunting down a young woman in the forest with likely few, if anybody believing her?

his might be the perfect time for a Slender Man film to hit all of the right buttons. The woman walking towards the cops at the end...if you didn't know what this movie was called and this wasn't a supernatural horror film, what would you assume happened to her?

edited 4th Jan '18 8:09:45 AM by Soble

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#21: Jan 4th 2018 at 10:43:00 AM

Slenderman is a perfectly entertaining boogeyman character.

It's a shame it's become associated with real life tragedy.

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#22: Jan 4th 2018 at 12:22:22 PM

Seriously.

Fuck those girls.

Well, not in that way.

But at least the trailer seems to be competently shot. Did a good idea of Nothing Is Scarier too, aside from the last little bit.

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#23: Jan 4th 2018 at 1:06:26 PM

I wonder if Slenderman is gonna be a tulpa in this movie.

Loves feel-good animation a whole lot.
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#25: Jan 4th 2018 at 1:17:02 PM

I feel like, after Logan Paul thing, this is a bad time for a Slender Man film to come out. I don't know if there'd really be a good time either given the myth became associated with an actual murder.

Attempted murder, unless there was another I don't know about. The victim from the Waukesha attack is recovered and back in school, thankfully. Last I heard, the attackers have been sentenced to time in a mental institution. Especially hurtful, since my sister went to the same Middle School as these girls. Same class, even. Took Science with the victim.

edited 4th Jan '18 1:17:59 PM by SacredSpirit123

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