'Slender Man' Trailer: The Key Takeaways from the Upcoming Movie

It was back in 2009 when the ghostly figure ‘”Slender Man” surfaced and seeped into the books of contemporary Urban Legend. While it may have been almost a decade-long ago, a film about it (him?) is set to release this year. But how exactly is the haunting of this movie going to go? Here are a few ideas we’ve deciphered from the trailer, along with its history.

What to Expect from the ‘Slender Man’ movie

1. Girls are going to be his followers. If you haven’t read the synopsis of the film, the story circles around a town with cases of child disappearances. And a group of teenage girls gambles their lives to investigate the root of the problem. The reason for this is because famous incidents related to the myth of Slender Man had pre-teen girls as alleged perpetrators of the crime.
Back in 2014, a 14-year-old girl reportedly set her family’s house on fire. This disturbance happened after a fight with her mother, according to ABC. Police found that the little girl had been reading about too much violent Manga and Slender Man stories online.
Another case happened in the same year. According to Cincinnati News Channel WLWT5, the mother came home to her daughter wearing a ‘white mask’ with her hands covered inside her sleeves. The 13-year-old girl soon attacked her mother with a knife. “She was someone else during that attack,” the mother said.
The mother also reports that her daughter is ‘obsessed’ with Slender Man—reading all stories about him, and even making a world of Slender Man in the online game Minecraft. This obsession, she believes, is the cause of her attack. Aside from the daughter-hacking-mother fiasco, there was also an incident in Waukesha that involved two young girls who wanted to be ‘proxies’ of the mythical creature.
Based on these real-life incidents, the “Slender Man” movie is sure to be keeping these facts a part of the narrative.
2. It’s not just any ordinary haunting. Most hauntings that involve ghosts or monsters usually just run after victims, scare them, and eventually, end their lives. Examples would be Jason Voorhees of “Friday the 13th,” Freddy Krueger of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and Leatherface in “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
The trailer has scarce words. In one part, a girl says ‘”He gets into your head”—and that’s all we need to stitch up how he’ll operate. He isn’t going to chase after these kids and then keep them in his wooden cabin. No, he’s going to infect them by seemingly injecting a loony virus that will enable this ghost-monster to control their thought process somehow. Just like how the girls in the incidents as mentioned earlier were “taken over’ by reading too much Slender Man. So we might not be expecting a lot of Slender Man here and there. Instead, it’s young girls performing dangerous and violent acts.
“Slender Man” will be taking over theaters on May 18, 2018, with Sylvain White as the director. Javier Botet—known for portraying the Crooked Man in “The Conjuring 2″—will also give life to the tall, faceless kid-captor.