Slenderman Has Supporters
Slenderman-What Happened
A girl named Payton Leutner follows some of her companions, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, into a secluded area in the woods and is stabbed a multitude of times. A few of those impacts between her body and the knives of those that assaulted her resulted in fatal wounds. Nonetheless, after the event took place Payton was left to die in that area. Those that assaulted her left her and hoped that she would have been accepted as an offering by the mythical figure known as “Slenderman”.
Background Information
The being known as Slenderman was formed on the 10th day of June in the year 2009. He was found online and was encouraged to be used in a horror photoshop contest. After this occurrence, he became immensely popular among many horror fans and enthusiasts all over the internet. He was a big deal and many of those fans decided to add to his story. He was known as a tall, thin, pale white man in a black suit with no face that would mainly target lonely children or those that researched him and would ultimately kill them for his own desires. What’s interesting about him is that something a few of the fans added was that he had proxies; human followers that were serials murders and killers that would carry out his will and orders whenever he needed them to do so.
Two New Proxies
Ms. Leutner’s companions assumed this mythological figure was actually real. They believed everything about him, from his existence to what his MO or modus operandi was. Something they especially found fascinating was the fact that he took on proxies. They decided to test this in the year 2014, a few years after he was formed, and ultimately Ms. Leutner was used as a part of this experiment. Thankfully, she survived and has fully recovered since the event took place. After it took place she was found by a stranger that was in the woods and was taken to the hospital. At the time all the girls were very young, being twelve years of age and she was apparently very good friends with those that assaulted her.
Response to Tragedy or to Online Hype
In the year 2018, a Slenderman movie was created and there have been many mixed reactions to the film. The film director stated that the movie was not based on anything in real life, but was more so his view of who and what Slenderman was. The movie involved young girls dealing and interacting with the supernatural entity in a horrifying fashion. Some people felt as though the director and the industry advertising this movie, Sony, were implying real-life events. They felt as though the movie was promoting harmful themes of violence and was profiting off of the terrible events that took place just four years before. Even in 2017, HBO released a documentary called BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN.
The film focused on the specific details of what happened to Payton, what she was going through, what Anissa and Morgan were going through, and the entire situation at length. The fact that the film came out a year after the documentary didn’t really help things. Others felt as though it was just another horror movie trying to profit off of the hype of another supernatural horror figure. After all, there have been many short films on YouTube and video games involving the being. In the end, the movie was still shown and everything started to die down after that.