![]() ![]() After invoking the monster through a surreal viral video (a la "The Ring") the Slender Man tracks down each girl one by one, robbing them of their sanity and then their lives. Either way, the film winds up following four (not two) teen girls who discover the semi-Lovecraftian Slender Man myths and attempt to summon him as part of a dare. Whether or not this scene is a winking red herring alluding to the real-life crime or coincidental to the larger story of the film is ambiguous. The "Slender Man" movie opens on two teenage girls confessing their undying devotion for each other, making slightly morbid jokes about their shared love. ![]() ![]() Leutner survived the attack and Weier and Geyser took plea deals and were confined to mental institutions. In 2014, two 12-year-olds named Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods of Waukesha, Wisconsin and stabbed her 19 times, claiming they were offering the girl to Slender Man as a sacrifice to prevent him from harming others. YouTubers began filming videos starring the monster, speculating about his extra-dimensional origins and supernatural abilities, and creating entire alternate reality games featuring the spooky being. Photoshopped into the background of haunting and mysterious images, the tall, faceless creature (often appearing in a suit and tie) became the subject of considerable amounts of fan fiction and art, spawning countless apocryphal legends. Slender Man is a nickname given to a fictional cryptid invented and popularized on message boards like the Something Awful forums in 2009. Garnering terrible reviews and poor box office results following a suspiciously incomplete studio edit, the "Slender Man" film actually has quite little to do with the hideous true crime it is inexorably connected to. The recently released "Slender Man" film courted controversy immediately upon its announcement - although the film was set to explore the mythos behind the eponymous urban legend, the family of a victim of a stabbing linked to the fictional monster were horrified by what they viewed as the tasteless exploitation of a tragedy, leading to local boycotts of the film. ![]()
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