Nowadays anything can be the start of a potential movie franchise; a book, real-life event, a toy, a video game, a tweet, or an Internet meme. The whole Slender Man meme was something I never really caught on to when it started back in 2009 through a user’s photographed images of a tall, skinny ghoul that tortured children. The supernatural being steadily grew in online popularity, becoming a creature of legend and myth, and in 2014 a pair of girls attempted an actual murder in an attempt to make a sacrifice to him. That’s just crazy, yo. But it’s also perfect fodder for a movie, and that’s why we have the new trailer for Slender Man, which seems to be cast full of castoffs from other horror movies.
I have a feeling this will be scariest to those who have no idea about the Internet memes and fan-fics that sparked it. We’ll find out when Slender Man creeps into theaters on May 18th.
