- I'm speechless right now. Whoa, that got me.
- It's so bizarre to think that this actually happened.
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- Ooh, spooky.
- Is this a horror movie?
- (man) Where is my daughter? - Oh, okay.
This is kinda creepy.
- It's always scary when you see a little girl.
- I'm not sure... Oh, Slender Man.
- Oh, this is the Slender Man trailer.
- Was that Slender Man?
- (woman) He gets in your head.
- I don't remember Slender Man being able to come through shadows.
- Oh, this is a scary-- oh, oh, all right.
- (girl) No, no, no! - This is dark.
- Damn, this is twisted.
- This is one of those trailers that you see as an ad
and you try and skip it as fast as possible.
- It's probably gonna be garbage.
- Ugh.
- Oh no, no, no.
- "Him?" What is "him?"
- Aw, hell no. Why she got a blade?
- (gasps) No the [bleep] she didn't.
- Oh, whoo. That's rough.
- Oh, is this the Slender Man one?
- It is Slender Man.
- Oh, is this Slender Man? What the heck?
- Oh, he's gonna appear from there.
- I'm speechless right now Whoa, that got me.
- Don't look back. Don't do it.
Don't do it. Told you.
- Wow, I'm actually surprised they haven't made
a Slender Man movie sooner.
- Oh my God, that's so gross.
- She eat someone?
- I'm so confused. What is going on?
They're making a movie for Slender Man?
- Oh, Slender Man?
- Slender Man? Oh my God.
- Little late. Seven years late.
- It didn't pull me in. I can't even tell you
the storyline based off of that trailer.
- This is my fifth grade nightmare right here.
I was so scared of Slender Man.
- It does look scary. The children in it, scary.
There's doors trying to be opened. Slender Man's coming for you.
I think it's definitely-- it has the potential
to give me nightmares.
- (FBE) That was the trailer for the upcoming horror film
Slender Man. From what you know,
is Slender Man still a thing today?
- Um, actually I haven't seen it recently.
- I didn't think it was. It was more like an old meme.
- No, it's not, 'cause they've moved on
to the next scary game-ish thing, which was Five Nights at Freddy's.
- We've all sort of forgotten about it.
Maybe except for some little dark holes on Creepypasta still
that make stories.
- I have not heard about Slender Man for the longest time.
If you were to show me this a couple years ago,
I would've been like, "Oh, a Slender Man movie." instantly.
- It doesn't really matter if it's new or not,
people will still watch it. So, I obviously don't think
it's the big thing anymore, but it definitely, I think,
it's relevant.
- (FBE) So the character of Slender Man
actually originated as a creepypasta internet meme
back in 2009 and it went viral and inspired various works
including the video game Slender: The Eight Pages
that was huge back in 2012. - Oh, okay, I remember that.
A lot of my friends were playing that, and I was like "Nah."
- I remember it, 'cause we played it and it scared the [bleep] out of me.
(screams) Oh my God.
- Literally every single gamer was playing that game.
I was just like, "I never want to play this."
and then I was forced to play here.
(grunting)
- (FBE) Similarly, Five Nights at Freddy's,
when that was at its peak, they announced a movie,
but that has yet to come out. - I remember hearing that.
- (FBE) Do you think these movies based on video games and stories
have enough hype to sustain it even years later,
or would they have bigger hype if they came out during
the height of its popularity? - Definitely.
I feel like for sure, you'd wanna make the movie
right when the video game was at its peak.
- It would definitely be better if it was during the actual
hype of the game, because the game is what
made the creepypasta of Slender Man actually known.
- I mean, I'd still see it just to see what it's like
because I haven't played Slender Man in a long time.
- If something's hot on the internet right now, you're gonna have to
take a while to put the film together.
You know, you got money, casts and all that.
- It takes forever to make movies. By the time they can figure that out
and make a movie, it's gonna be a year or two later.
- I haven't thought about Slender in a while, but I was like,
"Wow, now that I'm thinking about it, that was a fun game.
Maybe I should go play it again." It could be a revival of things.
Bring back a second wind.
- (FBE) So, Slender Man has had a lot of controversies
over time. In 2014, two twelve year old girls
in Wisconsin stabbed their classmate nineteen times claiming
that they were afraid that Slender Man would kill
their families if they refused to commit the murder.
- What?
- That girl survived, miraculously.
- (FBE) So now, we're gonna show you a trailer
of the 2016 HBO documentary, Beware the Slenderman,
that further explores that tragic incident.
- Okay.
- Oh, I didn't know there's a documentary.
Okay.
- (man) We came upon a twelve year old female.
She appears to be stabbed. - (operator) She appears to be what?
- (man) Stabbed. - (operator) Stabbed?
- God.
- (newscaster) Geyser are accused of stabbing the friend
and leaving her for dead. Police say the suspect...
- It's so bizarre to think that this actually happened.
- (newscaster) Slender Man, a faceless ghoul.
- That was scary as [bleep].
- (woman) She could possibly believe it was real.
- (girl) Anissa told me we had to. She said that he'd kill
our families. - No.
- (girl) A man. He can be anywhere
from six feet to fourteen feet tall.
- Aw, hell no. - (girl) He doesn't have a face.
His skin is white. - Oh, gosh.
- And they fully believe this, too.
I don't think they were just using it as an excuse.
- (woman) They don't know how to differentiate between
fantasy and reality. - Gives me the heebie jeebies.
- That's terrifying that this actually got into a child's head.
- (man) To believe in the Boogeyman just isn't that hard.
And they believed it was real. - Damn.
- (girl) She lifts up her jacket and shows me the handle
of a knife. - Holy [bleep].
- (girl) Dear God, this is really happening.
- I don't-- wow.
The belief is what's scaring me.
- Part of me is like, "Yeah, you shouldn't show
small children certain things, or young children"
because their minds are very easily influenced,
but at the same time, where do you draw a line?
- (FBE) Do you think that young kids today
are more influenced by things they see online
without it being as easy for parents to know
what their kids are viewing, or do you feel like
we can't blame things like music, movies,
and other media when tragedies like this happen
even in the age of more access to things by younger people?
- I mean, especially with what kids are seeing that has
a big impact on their actions and what they're thinking.
- Kids will find a way to watch what their friends are watching,
because that's the main influence. You can't really regulate
what kids watch.
- I do so many things on my phone without
my parents knowing and it's not even bad things.
It's just they don't know. I wouldn't want my parents
obsessed with every little thing I do on my phone,
but when things like this happen, it makes you think about
how we can do better.
- We have problems with the media now today because you see
the same thing over again and it's like,
maybe I should act in a certain way or maybe I should do this.
The internet is a gift and a curse.
- The internet is such an impactful thing and obviously
because it is kind of new. It's this generation we're trying
to figure out how to handle it and for parents who didn't have that,
that's a whole other situation for them.
I definitely do think that the media and movies, that stuff,
they do have influence on people.
- It's kind of up to a parent or some mentor figure
to explain what's going on and explain what's okay
and what's not. Here's the thing about video games,
people will always blame video games about things,
but if people are gonna act a certain way,
it's because they want to act a certain way.
- (FBE) So finally, when Slender Man
is finally released, is this a movie that you
wanna check out, skip all together, or eventually
see it when it's streaming online?
- I think I'm gonna pass on this one.
- I would eventually see it somewhere.
- If I hear good things about it, I'll watch it.
- Probably in the movies, 'cause I have a movie pass
and I can just slide my card and just go.
- I will watch it right when it comes out,
because I'm really intrigued by it.
- I probably will wait for it to come out
and then wait some more and be like,
"Okay, I'ma look at this."
- I'll check out when it's streaming somewhere.
I was never into the game or anything,
so it's not near and dear to my heart.
- I'll probably go see it. Honestly, it seems
like it's probably going to be bad in the first place
just because scary movies and especially movies
based on video games normally aren't good anyway,
but I think I'm gonna enjoy it either way.
- I'll probably see it in theaters.
It's been a while since I've seen a good horror movie
and maybe this could be the one, but it probably won't,
because it's a movie about a video game.
Let's be honest, probably not gonna be good.
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