The three discover that Katie had been involved in the occult and that she had been in contact, online, with a girl who told her how to contact Slender Man. A week later, Katie disappears, and the other three girls go to her house to look for clues. In a small town in Massachusetts, four friends-Wren, Hallie Knudsen, Chloe, and Katie Jensen-summon the Slender Man. For her performance, Sinclair was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress. Released in the United States on August 10, 2018, the film was panned by critics, and was a box-office failure, grossing $51.7 million against a budget between $10‒28 million. Filming took place in Massachusetts in June and July 2017. The film stars Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Taylor Richardson, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, and Alex Fitzalan with Javier Botet as the title character.ĭevelopment of the film began in May 2016, with Birke hired to write the script and much of the cast signing on a year later. He can create additional limbs when desired.Slender Man is a 2018 American supernatural horror film directed by Sylvain White and written by David Birke, based on the character of the same name. He tends to dwell in forests but is not restricted to them once summoned, and can manifest inside a locked building. He can only manifest when people view images of him or if contacted directly through a ritual, and is then largely unstoppable until satisfied. He also has some control over trees, animating them and using them to restrain victims and merging the kidnapped children themselves into trees. Slender Man's primary method of tormenting people is psychological, driving them insane with horrific visions. Because of her sacrifice, Hallie's sister recovers at the hospital, ending the film reflecting on the deaths of her sister and her friends. However, she quickly changes her mind and tries to escape only to get absorbed into a tree by the Slender Man. She approaches the Slender Man and begs him to take her. Wren gets kidnapped by the Slender Man making Hallie realize that he wanted them. Hallie's sister ends up suffering a panic attack and is bedridden at a hospital. As a means of trying to communicate with the Slender Man, Wren convinces Hallie's younger sister to help her summon him. Hallie tries to proceed with her life but is also given terrifying visions. Wren continued to be tormented by hallucinations inflicted on her by the Slender Man and continues to try to find a solution to her wows. Upon catching a glimpse of the Slender Man, Chloe becomes insane. Despite her warning, Chloe panics and pulls off her blindfold. She warns them to keep a blindfold over their eyes because directly looking at the Slender Man would make them go insane. A week after the disappearance, the remaining girls investigate her room, discovering that she was researching the Slender Man prior.Īfter communicating with one of the users on the website, Wren tells Chloe and Hallie that they needed to sacrifice something that they loved in order to get Katie back. After the four girls watch a video on a site dedicated to the monster, Katie ends up disappearing a week later. Unbeknownst to them, they would end up chickening out of fear. The film begins with four high school friends - Wren, Hallie, Chloe, and Katie respectively - decide to summon Slender Man after overhearing some of their male friends aiming to do so. His hallucinations are also very nightmarish and are arguably his most sadistic and cruelest moments in the film. He is rather determined in his goals, snatching up Wren at the best time when she's vulnerable after tormenting her, and viciously chasing Hallie through the woods. While his canon namesake is mostly emotionless (though capable of cruelty) this version of Slender Man is quite sadistic and very monstrous, as he toys with Hallie and her friends by torturing them and bending reality, all while making them slowly go insane. From a distance he appears to be wearing a business suit, however, close inspection reveals that this exterior is his skin. His arms and fingers are elongated relative to his torso. Slender Man's appearance is largely consistent with his internet origins as an impossibly tall and thin humanoid figure with white skin and no face.
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