Poll: Proposal: Slender Man Found Footage Movie

[TheIronRuler]

Hello escapists. I've been exposed to this human made urban myth for a while now and it seems that a recent horror video-game had enhanced its popularity. For the uninitiated, the "Slender Man" is a community made (on the internet!) urban legend that had been expanded upon for years now.
http://theslenderman.wikia.com/wiki/Slender_Man
Said video-game:
(Warning: Might screw up your experience if you actually see the damn thing in daylight)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_(video_game)
.My suggestion is to make a found footage Movie, completely "honest", with a group of college kids filmmakers that go on a hunt to find said being. They first think its a myth themselves and their original idea is to show how such an icon grew over the years. They try and find the original creator of "Slender-Man" and after much troubles and missing people, they find the one person that started it all. They find him in an isolated cabin in the woods (Original, huh?) surrounded by a high fence. They intend to interview the man after collecting all of their material and finish their short movie enterprise. Even though they were trespassing on his territory they hoped to speak with him. He sees them about to enter his house and threaten them with his rifle, the seemingly mad old man spouting gibberish in a foreign language is then startled and allows the group to enter his house. Inside, the group is then questioned by the man who then reveals the Slender-Man to be actually real and for him to be his "prophet", or so he called it, but he is in fact his prisoner. They try to stay indoors and give several shots of the house and windows, with the occasional light tapping on the doors or windows. They go over their footage together and suddenly find evidence of Slender-Man : He had been following them all along, well... not all of them. Only one of them is the person Slender-Man wants, and he won't let go. They are then threatened by the "prophet" with his gun, but on of the gang wrestles the rifle away from him not before shooting one of his mates.
Slender Man is visible throughout the movie in various scenery shots and hallways, sometimes appearing in his "full" form or in others as a faceless tall man in a business suit.

Anyway, I think I've said enough. The conclusion is reminiscent of the witch of Blair project, where the rest leave the house and try to make a run for their trucks only to be picked off one by one. It ends with the sound of the engine running and then the camera flying to the backseat, showing the hands of the last survivor clutching the drivers seat as his legs are being dragged from behind off-camera.
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Regardless of any plot, do you think that a "Slender-Man" kind of tale can be interpreted as a movie?

 

[Nouw]

So the Blair Witch Project meets Marble Hornets? I don't think it'd be anything amazing but at least it'd make for a good-average horror-film. Unless they do something new/fresh with the internet myth, I don't see the point of making anything Slenderman.

I don't want the Slenderman to become another over-used, laughed-at horror monster.

 

[TheIronRuler]

So the Blair Witch Project meets Marble Hornets? I don't think it'd be anything amazing but at least it'd make for a good-average horror-film. Unless they do something new/fresh with the internet myth, I don't see the point of making anything Slenderman.

I don't want the Slenderman to become another over-used, laughed-at horror monster.

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What I like about him is that in order to make him scary they have to avoid direct shots, because he's a bloody faceless man in a business suit. So instead of showing him in front of our eyes they can drop him in the background, show the end of his limbs as he passes by, etc.
I wouldn't want to have him overused, but you didn't have an overused monster from the Blair Witch project, did you? Slender Man is built in such a way that once you go in the light, it all goes away. Plus, I think that having him appear as a business man in daytime and planting him in various shots in the movie actually fucks with people as they're watching the film. When they see the reveal it hits them like a brick wall.

EDIT: If you have a better or different idea, please share it with us!

 

[Nouw]

So the Blair Witch Project meets Marble Hornets? I don't think it'd be anything amazing but at least it'd make for a good-average horror-film. Unless they do something new/fresh with the internet myth, I don't see the point of making anything Slenderman.

I don't want the Slenderman to become another over-used, laughed-at horror monster.

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What I like about him is that in order to make him scary they have to avoid direct shots, because he's a bloody faceless man in a business suit. So instead of showing him in front of our eyes they can drop him in the background, show the end of his limbs as he passes by, etc.
I wouldn't want to have him overused, but you didn't have an overused monster from the Blair Witch project, did you? Slender Man is built in such a way that once you go in the light, it all goes away. Plus, I think that having him appear as a business man in daytime and planting him in various shots in the movie actually fucks with people as they're watching the film. When they see the reveal it hits them like a brick wall.

EDIT: If you have a better or different idea, please share it with us!

You're quite right there, a film where the Slenderman is Chekhov's Gun [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun] would work wonderfully well only if the audience doesn't know what to look out for. I think it would work better with only one main character though, no groups, since the Slenderman is that kind of monster. He doesn't go on killing sprees and instead he takes time with his kills. A Marble Hornets film? Meh, why not.

 

[TheIronRuler]

So the Blair Witch Project meets Marble Hornets? I don't think it'd be anything amazing but at least it'd make for a good-average horror-film. Unless they do something new/fresh with the internet myth, I don't see the point of making anything Slenderman.

I don't want the Slenderman to become another over-used, laughed-at horror monster.

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What I like about him is that in order to make him scary they have to avoid direct shots, because he's a bloody faceless man in a business suit. So instead of showing him in front of our eyes they can drop him in the background, show the end of his limbs as he passes by, etc.
I wouldn't want to have him overused, but you didn't have an overused monster from the Blair Witch project, did you? Slender Man is built in such a way that once you go in the light, it all goes away. Plus, I think that having him appear as a business man in daytime and planting him in various shots in the movie actually fucks with people as they're watching the film. When they see the reveal it hits them like a brick wall.

EDIT: If you have a better or different idea, please share it with us!

You're quite right there, a film where the Slenderman is Chekhov's Gun [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun] would work wonderfully well only if the audience doesn't know what to look out for. I think it would work better with only one main character though, no groups, since the Slenderman is that kind of monster. He doesn't go on killing sprees and instead he takes time with his kills. A Marble Hornets film? Meh, why not.

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Exactly! I think it can work out great. About the group deal - One man doesn't have the balls to sneak into a supposed lunatic's home for a bloody interview, and these projects are usually done in groups. Plus, you need more than one camera to work with. Three, maybe four people can do the trick.

 

[Nouw]

So the Blair Witch Project meets Marble Hornets? I don't think it'd be anything amazing but at least it'd make for a good-average horror-film. Unless they do something new/fresh with the internet myth, I don't see the point of making anything Slenderman.

I don't want the Slenderman to become another over-used, laughed-at horror monster.

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What I like about him is that in order to make him scary they have to avoid direct shots, because he's a bloody faceless man in a business suit. So instead of showing him in front of our eyes they can drop him in the background, show the end of his limbs as he passes by, etc.
I wouldn't want to have him overused, but you didn't have an overused monster from the Blair Witch project, did you? Slender Man is built in such a way that once you go in the light, it all goes away. Plus, I think that having him appear as a business man in daytime and planting him in various shots in the movie actually fucks with people as they're watching the film. When they see the reveal it hits them like a brick wall.

EDIT: If you have a better or different idea, please share it with us!

You're quite right there, a film where the Slenderman is Chekhov's Gun [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun] would work wonderfully well only if the audience doesn't know what to look out for. I think it would work better with only one main character though, no groups, since the Slenderman is that kind of monster. He doesn't go on killing sprees and instead he takes time with his kills. A Marble Hornets film? Meh, why not.

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Exactly! I think it can work out great. About the group deal - One man doesn't have the balls to sneak into a supposed lunatic's home for a bloody interview, and these projects are usually done in groups. Plus, you need more than one camera to work with. Three, maybe four people can do the trick.

Hmm, for your premise sure but I'm thinking more along the lines of a film where one person is simply recording his or her life. We have head-mounted cams nowadays, can't we use them? At the end of the day, both of our ideas are great and will achieve different things with the same myth.

 

[TheIronRuler]

So the Blair Witch Project meets Marble Hornets? I don't think it'd be anything amazing but at least it'd make for a good-average horror-film. Unless they do something new/fresh with the internet myth, I don't see the point of making anything Slenderman.

I don't want the Slenderman to become another over-used, laughed-at horror monster.

.
What I like about him is that in order to make him scary they have to avoid direct shots, because he's a bloody faceless man in a business suit. So instead of showing him in front of our eyes they can drop him in the background, show the end of his limbs as he passes by, etc.
I wouldn't want to have him overused, but you didn't have an overused monster from the Blair Witch project, did you? Slender Man is built in such a way that once you go in the light, it all goes away. Plus, I think that having him appear as a business man in daytime and planting him in various shots in the movie actually fucks with people as they're watching the film. When they see the reveal it hits them like a brick wall.

EDIT: If you have a better or different idea, please share it with us!

You're quite right there, a film where the Slenderman is Chekhov's Gun [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun] would work wonderfully well only if the audience doesn't know what to look out for. I think it would work better with only one main character though, no groups, since the Slenderman is that kind of monster. He doesn't go on killing sprees and instead he takes time with his kills. A Marble Hornets film? Meh, why not.

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Exactly! I think it can work out great. About the group deal - One man doesn't have the balls to sneak into a supposed lunatic's home for a bloody interview, and these projects are usually done in groups. Plus, you need more than one camera to work with. Three, maybe four people can do the trick.

Hmm, for your premise sure but I'm thinking more along the lines of a film where one person is simply recording his or her life. We have head-mounted cams nowadays, can't we use them? At the end of the day, both of our ideas are great and will achieve different things with the same myth.

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I think I see where you're coming from, but what the hell would drive him to find out more about him? A random session of the video-game, "Slender"?

 

[Nouw]

So the Blair Witch Project meets Marble Hornets? I don't think it'd be anything amazing but at least it'd make for a good-average horror-film. Unless they do something new/fresh with the internet myth, I don't see the point of making anything Slenderman.

I don't want the Slenderman to become another over-used, laughed-at horror monster.

.
What I like about him is that in order to make him scary they have to avoid direct shots, because he's a bloody faceless man in a business suit. So instead of showing him in front of our eyes they can drop him in the background, show the end of his limbs as he passes by, etc.
I wouldn't want to have him overused, but you didn't have an overused monster from the Blair Witch project, did you? Slender Man is built in such a way that once you go in the light, it all goes away. Plus, I think that having him appear as a business man in daytime and planting him in various shots in the movie actually fucks with people as they're watching the film. When they see the reveal it hits them like a brick wall.

EDIT: If you have a better or different idea, please share it with us!

You're quite right there, a film where the Slenderman is Chekhov's Gun [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun] would work wonderfully well only if the audience doesn't know what to look out for. I think it would work better with only one main character though, no groups, since the Slenderman is that kind of monster. He doesn't go on killing sprees and instead he takes time with his kills. A Marble Hornets film? Meh, why not.

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Exactly! I think it can work out great. About the group deal - One man doesn't have the balls to sneak into a supposed lunatic's home for a bloody interview, and these projects are usually done in groups. Plus, you need more than one camera to work with. Three, maybe four people can do the trick.

Hmm, for your premise sure but I'm thinking more along the lines of a film where one person is simply recording his or her life. We have head-mounted cams nowadays, can't we use them? At the end of the day, both of our ideas are great and will achieve different things with the same myth.

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I think I see where you're coming from, but what the hell would drive him to find out more about him? A random session of the video-game, "Slender"?

In one word, paranoia. We see everything he sees and he's seeing the Slenderman and thinks he's being watched. He eventually mentally and emotionally deteriorates and becomes another victim. Sure it wouldn't be a fast-paced film or a film with an actual plot but I still think it'd be a nice film.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

I don't think it would work. Slenderman is an internet thing and i believe that's the way he works best. YouTube Clips like Marble Hornet just provide a certain... authenticity a cinematically releases movie would lack.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I don't think it would work. Slenderman is an internet thing and i believe that's the way he works best. YouTube Clips like Marble Hornet just provide a certain... authenticity a cinematically releases movie would lack.

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I thought that my plot idea of the team looking for the origins of this internet driven character would fool the audience at first and ease the tensions.

 

[SweetShark]

I would rather prefer a normal Horror movie than a found footage movie.
This kind of films are so overated and also the shaked camera cause to me sickness...

For those they had read some of the characteristics of Slenderman one of them is this:

"The adults he stalks have a common trait: they have all been through a terrible tragedy in their life, even if the tragedy was made by Slenderman directly."

This is a good main plot point for a Slenderman movie. Slenderman is out there to hunt down someone that he.she had a specific terrible tragedy in the past. The only question is who is this person?

Also there are so many possibilities to be a well driven story and not just a classic "find the origin of the monster".
Sure, at some point the "heroes" could found a source to learn more for the Slenderman Legend, but not to be the main plot point of a movie.

Finally I want the protagonist of this film to be normal people that I will care about to NOT die by Slenderman. I don't want another Horror movie that the people inside need to be murdered cause are stupid as f*ck!!!

 

[TheIronRuler]

I would rather prefer a normal Horror movie than a found footage movie.
This kind of films are so overated and also the shaked camera cause to me sickness...

For those they had read some of the characteristics of Slenderman one of them is this:

"The adults he stalks have a common trait: they have all been through a terrible tragedy in their life, even if the tragedy was made by Slenderman directly."

This is a good main plot point for a Slenderman movie. Slenderman is out there to hunt down someone that he.she had a specific terrible tragedy in the past. The only question is who is this person?

Also there are so many possibilities to be a well driven story and not just a classic "find the origin of the monster".
Sure, at some point the "heroes" could found a source to learn more for the Slenderman Legend, but not to be the main plot point of a movie.

Finally I want the protagonist of this film to be normal people that I will care about to NOT die by Slenderman. I don't want another Horror movie that the people inside need to be murdered cause are stupid as f*ck!!!

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I didn't know that about the Slender man.... strange.
It's a different approach than mine. What I had in mind is to have this look like a reveal - To show how this became insanely popular (in their world) but it's in fact just a bunch of guys with Photoshop and a video-camera fucking around. So when they do get to interview the real creator of Slender-Man - It fucking hits man. This shit is real. And you see along the film these hints of him in the background that only if you know where to look or see it for the second time can spot him in the background.

Your idea sounds neat too - But why would he record this journey? I mean, if this person was damaged in the past or by him, and now he's seeing shit, why record it and not just go and seek for a shrink or just shrug it off? It's also something strange in cinema.

Well, are they really going to believe the thing kills people? It doesn't leave any bodies behind and most of the time looks like your figment of imagination.

You brought up some nice points, thanks. If you have any other ideas, don't hesitate to post them here.

 

[SweetShark]

Interesting text

I never said that they main characters want to learn about the origin of Slenderman.
I mean at some point of the movie the main character just learn about this from another person that followed this legend.

As I said my thought is for the main character to find out why Slenderman kill only spefific peoples and not a random one.

If you read at some other part of SLenderWiki, Slenderman is there a possibility to be an etherial personification of evil acts done by humans [If I am wrong, please correct me].

Slenderman doesn't care if you are a "good or bad" people, he only care that you were part of a terrible tragedy that can "feed" from the negative life energy a people have.

And ooohhh boy a method Slenderman have to do so!!!!

"Death of the victim originally occurred through an odd means- the victim would be impaled on branches of very tall trees while still alive, and bleed to death. The organs would be individually removed, then placed in plastic bags. They would then be replaced into the body in their original positions, plus the plastic bags. The victims' corpses do not show any sign of a struggle.
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Damn!!!

 

[Soviet Steve]

Didn't they already make 'The Room'? I know it wasn't entirely found footage but still.

Also I voted no on account of it not being a film I would enjoy.

 

[SweetShark]

Didn't they already make 'The Room'? I know it wasn't entirely found footage but still.

Also I voted no on account of it not being a film I would enjoy.

For those they Googled this movie to find if he meant "this" movie, don't.

He mean of course a Spanish movie with the name "The Room".

Spoiler

But...I don't think they have similarity. Just only the "entity" wanted go away from his world

 

[Snowbell]

This is exactly what I've been trying to convince my friends to do! I live in a pretty creepy forest, it would be brilliant!

Now all I need is to get my friends on board ¬_¬

 

[RJ 17]

Seeing as how it's an urban myth, yeah, you could easily make a movie based on Slender Man. Could be a real movie, could be Blair Witch 3. I'm not certain how well it'd do, but there'd certainly be nothing difficult about making it.

 

[Professor Plum]

Someone has a Slender Man Movie Kickstarter project currently running. I'm not too sure what the storyline would be like though.

 

[TheIronRuler]

Someone has a Slender Man Movie Kickstarter project currently running. I'm not too sure what the storyline would be like though.

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Kickstarter is a bad idea... You'd have to disclose some details and that would screw up the whole movie. Plus, what kind of distribution are you going to have with a movie on kickstarter?

 

[teqrevisited]

It has the potential to be a good film. So long as you don't see him fully until well into it. Is that a tree silhouetted against the night sky? Or is it a mass of impossibly long, spindly tendril-like arms?