![]() The causes and consequences of a crowd-sourced phantom were already ably tackled in the 2016 HBO doc Beware the Slenderman, which examined the so-called “Slender Man stabbings” in exacting detail. Slender Man is not a licensed bogeyman like Freddy or Jason, but a literally faceless meme-a figment of our collective digital imagination as ephemeral as the internet itself. Good luck getting that to hold up in court, though. ![]() Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen, as its namesake’s creator, owing to a 2009 post in an online Photoshop competition that stands as Slender’s first recorded online appearance. Slender Man’s credits cite “Victor Surge,” a.k.a. And there’s nothing stopping a different set of Hollywood filmmakers from taking up the saga of a character who seems to transcend intellectual property rights. Already, there are amateur-produced YouTube series, iOS video games, and Kickstarter-funded indies floating around online. The question of whether Slender Man represents a missed opportunity or a movie that shouldn’t have been made in the first place remains open, but there’s no denying the character’s market appeal. Police struggled to find the clues strewn through the Scandinavian wasteland of The Snowman has a mainstream thriller felt this hastily assembled and incoherent. ![]() The film bears the scars of a movie pulled apart in the editing room not since Mr. That backstory certainly accounts for why Slender Man feels so bland, and why some of the gorier moments from the trailer aren’t in the finished product. The rumor circulating over the weekend was that the studio got spooked by the possibility of audience backlash and undermined the production both on set and in the edit room. ![]() Not that Sony’s Screen Gems would want to back one. That’s far less than Annabelle: Creation made last summer in the same mid-August slot and probably not enough to justify a sequel. The answer so far is: “Sure, but maybe let’s see something else instead.” Sylvain White’s film did not defy industry projections this weekend, taking in a modest-if not exactly terrible-$11.4 million. The (hash)tagline for Slender Man is #CanYouSeeHim?. ![]()
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