Slenderman - Sony is in fact not getting better

[Polyboros]

I'm somewhat sad Dionaea House never made it to screen, though Hollywood would probably have fucked it up.

So, whats the over/under on this being better or worse than the eventual Five Nights at Freddy's movie?

 

[Trombonista]

Everybody knows you can't do a Slenderman movie without Kurt Russell:

 

[Xerxes IX]

So, whats the over/under on this being better or worse than the eventual Five Nights at Freddy's movie?

Slenderman will no doubt be shit, but at least it won't be a jumpscare fest for 10 year olds. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but they'll at least try psychological horror because of the mythos.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

I can't wait until we get shitty horror movies based on ARGs like The Human Pet or the Momo story.

I world like to see what they would do with @thesunvanished but they would just likely turn it into a other Cloverfield, which would suck.

 

[RG 448]

Those are amazingly loud trailers considering the one of the real horror aspects of the games at least is the unnerving silence of everything.

Yeah, that’s universal to well-recieved use of the character. Slenderman represents very human fears; uncanny valley, shit you see out of the corner of your eye that doesn’t quite look right, the unknown, that sort of thing. Turning that into a big-budget hollywood feature is contradictory right out of the gate no matter how they handle it.

 

[Quijibo69]

I'm holding out for "Cory In The House" the movie.

 

[Andre The Roboto]

I think you forgot to mention the clash between the film's producers of this film and Sony
https://variety.com/2018/film/markets-festivals/slender-man-sony-1202826660/

 

[BeanBidan]

Oh noes! He's so skinny and tall! Look how long his arms are! How very scary, for some reason. He looks like one of those old timey alien type guys.

Herobrine is a better creepypasta than this, and no movie execs, that is not a suggestion! But then... they do seem to be completely out of ideas. And they are stuck in the past...

Coming Christmas '18, Bill Burr is Herobrine, Notch's dead brother or something, who turned into a ghost in a video game! Featuring Woody Allen as Jeb, with Notch played by the hologram of Tupak Shakur!

It's really Ice Poseidon the Movie

 

[ZehnBoat]

Slenderman will no doubt be shit, but at least it won't be a jumpscare fest for 10 year olds. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but they'll at least try psychological horror because of the mythos.

lol no they wont
it'll be generic shit with a slendy mask

 

[FemalePresident]

lol creepypasta movie.

If this success, will they make a sequel? or something like the Conjuring universe?

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

Sony and the quest to bring 2009 back.
You can't stop at one old creepypasta. Show me a trailer for the Jeff the Killer movie, then we'll talk.

My god, a "horror" movie whose target demographic are horny preteen girls? it would be the Twilight craze all over again, only a million times more :autism:

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

Jeff vs. Slenderman vs. Phone: Dawn of Pasta

 

[NotSoGreatLord]

You know what grinds my gears? The fact that there are some fantastic stories that could be adapted to film with the right crew, but they aren't given the time of day because they don't have marketable figure. Slenderman is, well, Slenderman, and Candle Cove has the Skintaker (though they invented their own with no connection to the source material). No idea what Syfy saw in No End House. And then there's the Five Nights movie that's in the works. Regardless of the perceived quality of the source material, corporate Hollywood isn't gonna give these films quality treatment. So maybe it's a good thing they're ignoring better stories.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I'm somewhat sad Dionaea House never made it to screen, though Hollywood would probably have fucked it up.

So, whats the over/under on this being better or worse than the eventual Five Nights at Freddy's movie?

Holy shit, I remember Dionaea House. That was the first 'creepypasta' tale I ever ran across online.

I remember the guy saying he was setting out to try and write an Internet version of a 'ghost story'. Shame about the movie deal collapsing but the story was still neat.

 

[Polyboros]

Holy shit, I remember Dionaea House. That was the first 'creepypasta' tale I ever ran across online.

I remember the guy saying he was setting out to try and write an Internet version of a 'ghost story'. Shame about the movie deal collapsing but the story was still neat.

Dionaea House was a bit more than a creepy pasta. It was the first really good(AFAIK and IMO) use of the internet as a horror medium. Creepy pastas are just short fiction popular on line. This guy created a website about a "missing friend" posting emails, then using IIRC blogs and early social media from other "characters" to weave the story. You had to go through multiple sources in different formats to piece the story together.

I'm sure if I went back and reread it, my younger brain enjoyed it a lot more than I would now. But I do think at the time it was groundbreaking.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

Spoiler: Huge spoilers for the movie.

It sucked.

 

[Zaryiu]

Anyone aware of the Chzo Mythos? I preferred when the only Tall Man I knew was the one one in that. Slenderman is a shit

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Hell they made a Ted the Caver movie even. It's not good, but it didn't really butcher the story all that much at least.

 

[Bussy Catalog]

I've heard rumors that Sony knows full well the movie is a turd and is deliberately trying to bury it. I had no idea it was out until I saw it listed on IMDb's in-theaters slot. Judging by the box office, their strategy seems to be working.