![]() ![]() However, the father of Anissa Weier, one of the attackers in the stabbing, has called the horror film "extremely distasteful," saying that the movie is "popularizing a tragedy." He started an online petition to call on Sony to pull the film from its release schedule. The petition currently has over 19,000 signatures. The trailer for the movie depicts schoolgirls who are haunted by the character, with one stabbing herself in the eye. How far back does the fictional Slender Man history go? The higher-ups at Sony are worried about further blowback on social media should the release proceed as planned. Those who have been tricked into believing that Slender Man is real sometimes point to "evidence" that Slender Man sightings date back to 16th-century Germany. ![]() They often refer to the woodcut pictured below (left). It depicts the so-called "Tall Man" (Der Großmann), who has a bony spear for an arm and spider-like legs. According to the story spread on the Internet, he was a fairy who lived in the Black Forest and would chase bad children who crept into the woods at night.Ī little research reveals that the image has been doctored. It's actually a print of a 16th-century Hans Holbein woodcut that shows a two-legged skeleton (Death) driving a lance into a knight. ![]() The original print can be found at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Īctor Javier Botet lurks in the woods as Slender Man in the movie (left). Have there been any Slender Man-inspired murders? The 6'7" actor is pictured in real life (right). The Slender Man murders in the 2018 movie are fictional and are in no way tied to real events. However, there was an attempted murder that was linked to the Slender Man fiction. ![]()
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