How Slender Man became an urban legend
The meme that led two girls to stab a classmate will come to life yet again in the upcoming ‘Slender Man’
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Ask those who know best about what makes this legend so frightening and you’re likely to hear something like this: Slender Man is scary not because of what you know about him, but because of what you don’t know.
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The Slender Man (played by Javier Botet in the film) is a character that took shape in an internet forum.
THE ORIGINS
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Through discussions, and more Photoshopped images and stories, other forum visitors solidified the features of the character known as Slender Man: his facelessness was nearly constant, he typically wore a black suit and he sometimes had tentacles growing out of his back.
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GRUESOME TURN
[The film] is a classic story of four girls who become curious about Slender Man and end up falling down the rabbit hole.”
- SYLVIAN WHITE | Director
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Slender Man is out in the UAE on August 30
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