Poll: Proposal: Slender Man Found Footage Movie

[TheIronRuler]

That does sound like a pretty good idea, although I'd like to point out it's been done [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Windigo]. Your concept clearly has a lot of significant differences from Windigo, though, so I say push onward.

Incidentally, when you mention Slenderman's "full form", what do you mean exactly?

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Did I ever use the words "full form"? I'm not sure. I think it's about actually seeing him in his tall, multi-limb greatness. I want to avoid it as much as possible. To be honest, I think they should be marketed as a romantic comedy. Then put slender man in the whole movie in the background, and men in suits in random places. Then have them re-watch their wedding or other video, and start finding him there... watching them... stalking them... wait... Is he still there?

 

[Shocksplicer]

Don't really care. Slender was about the least scared I've ever been in a so-called horror game. It was just "Wander around the woods picking up paper, don't stop moving or you'll die, once you find the last page you don't have anything left to do but die."

Boring.

 

[SoranMBane]

There already is one called Windigo. It's available in its entirety on Youtube for anyone that's curious, but it really is just Blair Witch with some Marble Hornets motifs, so not particularly worth watching if you've already seen either of those things. It even has the exact same plot as The Blair Witch Project; college students travel to some remote hick town in the woods to film a documentary for their class. Although, to be fair, even Marble Hornets started out with some college students trying to film a movie, which I suppose is the danger in using the found footage hook; the need to justify the fact that the characters are carrying cameras around limits what you can do a bit. If they ever do make a bigger-budget Slenderman film, they should probably just drop any attempts to copy Marble Hornets and do a normal movie. There's no way it could ever have the same paranoia-inducing kick that the Slenderblog ARGs on the internet do, but it could still end up being a decent and interesting movie in its own right if it's handled well.

So, I guess that's a vote for "yes, they should probably make a Slenderman film, but not a found footage one." I don't have anything against found footage films (I actually like Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project), but I just don't feel that a Slenderman film should have to copy the formats of the Slenderman-related works on the internet; it would only hold the movie back.

 

[Marik2]

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I would like a horror/comedy movie done with it

Like this

 

[Feena-cf]

Started reading this thread(and therefore related links about Slender Man) after midnight. Welp, not sleeping tonight. Thanks internetz.

 

[TheIronRuler]

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I would like a horror/comedy movie done with it

Like this

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Brilliant... I thought that you could have a Romantic Comedy and actually sell it as one, but you have Slender Man through the movie popping in the scenery. Then the last ten minutes is just unadulterated cuts of them getting paranoid and freaking out and Slender Man POV shots.

 

[RedDeadFred]

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

I am very curious to see this Kickstarter. Link?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ajmeadows/the-slender-man-movie <- There's the link, there's a trailer on that page too.

Thanks!
Oh!
Btw, did you know some other want to create a new Slenderman game.
But hear this.......4-PLAYERS CO-OP GAME TRYING TO SURVIVE SLENDERMAN!!!!!

F*CK YEAH!!!!

But gain the sotry is not existant....the four player just trying to fing some dolls....that it.

Link:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/slender-source

Oh! It seems the developer put somekind of story after all!!! I am very hype now!!!

There already is a Slender Man game. It's called Slender and it is fucking terrifying. It's free, quick to download, and has relatively low system requirements.

I think that a movie about him would work but it wouldn't necessarily need to be found footage. It could simply be a normal looking movie about a normal family who do something to draw Slender Man's attention. They might not notice him at first and neither would the audience (unless they were really looking hard for him). He would become more and more noticeable for the audience but the family would never see him. This would create a growing sense of dread because you would know something horrible is going to happen. Having good actors would help a lot to actually make you care about the people and their day to day lives.

That's my general idea of the movie but I'm sure it could be done differently.

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This is also a good route to go in, but what would initialize the encounters? I mean... DO you have any idea? Plus, what would be the climax?

Like I said. This is just my general concept. I have no idea what kind of plot would fit it. I'll leave that to actual writers.

 

[Don Savik]

So many internet tuff guys and people who don't understand the type of horror Slenderman is. I guess you just have to be one of the weird internet paranormal creepypasta enthusiasts to get it. This isn't hollywood horror, you aren't cool because you can show off to your girlfriend about HOW YOU AINT SCARED OF NO MONSTA. Its cool to be intrigued and scared with your friends. You're all doing it wrong. So very wrong.

Found footage, while good, has been done to death. Marble Hornets kind of screwed themselves over with having Slenderman in almost EVERY GODDAM ENTRY. It kind of kills the suspense. You know its going to be 10 minutes of nothing, than BAM Slendy at the last 4 minutes. At least EverymanHYBRID tries to be creative with the formula. I think they just need to do their own thing at this point.

 

[SeeIn2D]

I think they could make entertaining short films out of a lot of SCPs and internet myths. I don't think many could reasonably be turned into full length films but short films 15-30 minutes long would be very entertaining!

 

[TheIronRuler]

So many internet tuff guys and people who don't understand the type of horror Slenderman is. I guess you just have to be one of the weird internet paranormal creepypasta enthusiasts to get it. This isn't hollywood horror, you aren't cool because you can show off to your girlfriend about HOW YOU AINT SCARED OF NO MONSTA. Its cool to be intrigued and scared with your friends. You're all doing it wrong. So very wrong.

Found footage, while good, has been done to death. Marble Hornets kind of screwed themselves over with having Slenderman in almost EVERY GODDAM ENTRY. It kind of kills the suspense. You know its going to be 10 minutes of nothing, than BAM Slendy at the last 4 minutes. At least EverymanHYBRID tries to be creative with the formula. I think they just need to do their own thing at this point.

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I wouldn't place him as obviously in the film as some do. Only if you actually look for him you can see some things out of place in the shots. It's the twist that fucks with you at the very end.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

The idea of having a normal, maybe comedic story that near te end turns into a horror movie is great. But there is one major flaw, it's basicaly impossible to Market to people. If you market it as a romantic comedy then shut willfly when say middle aged women get scared out of their mind when try thought they were seeing something lighthearted. If you marketed it as a horror movie it would lose a lot of its impact on the audience. Ots a difficult thing to do. Also, in the movie you should have no indication of slenderman whatsoever, the thing that made marble hornets a bit less scary for me was the fact that the camera would fuck up in some way when slenderman was near.

 

[Captain Anon]

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.

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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"?

here's the thing about slender man those who see his blank face, his very tall and really thin figure, the fact he wears a black suit and tie for reasons we don't know and him having very long and multiple limbs makes us want to know more about him and that's what traps us and puts us in his sights because he operates on the power of belief and fear. "the more you know about him, the more chance he will come for you".

Not sure how you did it but you messed up the quotes. Fixed for you.

how have i?

 

[Captain Anon]

Don't really care. Slender was about the least scared I've ever been in a so-called horror game. It was just "Wander around the woods picking up paper, don't stop moving or you'll die, once you find the last page you don't have anything left to do but die."

Boring.

oh yeah try looking behind you mid-game with headphones on, volume on max and playing from 6PM to whenever you go to bed with the lights off. try being least scared then.

 

[Captain Anon]

*slenderman, slenderman dressed in darkness suit and tie, slenderman, slenderman you...most...certainly...will diiiiiieeeeeeeeee.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

It could happen but I don't think it would be good nor would I watch it.

 

[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.

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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"?

here's the thing about slender man those who see his blank face, his very tall and really thin figure, the fact he wears a black suit and tie for reasons we don't know and him having very long and multiple limbs makes us want to know more about him and that's what traps us and puts us in his sights because he operates on the power of belief and fear. "the more you know about him, the more chance he will come for you".

Not sure how you did it but you messed up the quotes. Fixed for you.

how have i?

It showed what I said as what TheIronRuler said. But as I said, I fixed it for you.

 

[TheIronRuler]

It's been done, go watch Doctor Who.

solvemedia: "eat your vaginas"? Who thought that was appropriate?

Are you refering to the weeping angels or did I miss a splendid episode?

 

[TheIronRuler]

The idea of having a normal, maybe comedic story that near te end turns into a horror movie is great. But there is one major flaw, it's basicaly impossible to Market to people. If you market it as a romantic comedy then shut willfly when say middle aged women get scared out of their mind when try thought they were seeing something lighthearted. If you marketed it as a horror movie it would lose a lot of its impact on the audience. Ots a difficult thing to do. Also, in the movie you should have no indication of slenderman whatsoever, the thing that made marble hornets a bit less scary for me was the fact that the camera would fuck up in some way when slenderman was near.

I should be a mindfuck. Market it as A, and when the week is up word of mouth is bound to bring the right crowd in.
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[Shoggoth2588]

I hated Blair Witch Project but you know what? If there's actual Slender Man in the movie, even if its in the background like the Marvel artifacts in Odin's weapon vault, then at least it's SOMETHING to look for and be creeped out by. It's something to go on that would make the movie worth it to me. I would more than likely want to check it out.