![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both photographs included children and spooky captions devised by Surge to give some creepy authenticity to these fabricated images. Eric Knudson, posting under the name Victor Surge, took 15 minutes out of his day to photoshop some images of a tall man in a suit with multiple limbs and a blank white head with no face for a “Create Paranormal Images” forum subthread. The entity known as Slender Man first appeared on the internet in June 2009 on a website called Something Awful. The movie’s problems are new to internet IP: Slender Man isn’t just one thing you can buy and adapt. The Slender Man movie spent years in development before director Sylvain White ( The Losers) finally turned around the version that hit theaters this month. In context, the voiceover feels like an apology from the filmmakers to the audience: we’re sorry you had to see that, don’t tell anyone. By sharing Slender Man’s mythos - through websites and drawings and late night trips to the woods - people manifest the monster into reality and allow it to claim victims. The new horror movie Slender Man ends with a vague, voiceover reminder: “we” spread the “virus” that is the antagonist.
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