The canon of Slender Man is constantly growing and shifting, an apt metaphor for his very existence as a creation of the internet, itself a semi-organic beast of formless, evolving identity. His gender is an assumption of that costume perhaps he is genderless. His suit is merely an indicator of a being adopting the cultural norms of the time. This is echoed in his physical appearance: the faceless entity is one we assign our own meaning to. It is that malleability that I think helps contribute to his enduring popularity. I only know that the screen goes all blurry, there's a horrible screeching noise, and darkness. Like I said, I don't know WHAT the Slender Man does to you when he finds you. Since he is rather loosely defined, he can flex to meet the needs of the content creator, and, for that matter, the audience. What makes the Slender Man such a compelling figure for the internet, and for pop culture, is his malleability. Slender is a first person horror game created by Parsec Productions where your only goal is to find 8 manuscripts about the Slender Man, a paranormal.
Hours later, the gifter received this text from the giftee: "F-K YOU. My favourite story about it involves a friend "gifting" it to another friend. One such Urban Legend - one that is fully acknowledged to be a creation, not a tale with any basis in real life events - is that of the Slender Man.įor such a simple game, Slender: The Eight Pages sure does work well. True, it is tempered by modernity's current wave of cynicism, but even against the tide of internet skepticism, we have people dreaming up creatures and stories and myths. Whoever sees Slenderman suffers paranoia and memory loss. Your goal is to find pages ripped from a story about Slenderman. Dragons, ogres, trolls, fairies.and perhaps the most dazzling thing of all is that it's still growing. Slender: the Eight Pages, builds on this character. For anyone who has played Slender: The Arrival, the proxy known as 'The Chaser', aka Kate, is the girl played in The Eight Pages. It has been confirmed that the character played in Slender: The Eight Pages is a girl. It was propelled forward by a simple premise: aren't the strange and wonderful things we dream up COOL? Folklore is a goldmine of imagination. There can be no static, and Slender will turn the character around and kill her on sight. The Slender Man (also spelled Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural.
This show was imaginative, colourful, dark and brooding at times, bright and cheery at others. In Slender: The Eight Pages, should the player fail to collect all of the pages.
SLENDER THE 8 PAGES TV
Does anyone else remember the show The Storyteller? That amazing, short-lived TV show in the 80's from Jim Henson?Įssentially, the show was an anthology of classic folklore and fairy tales, hosted by the eponymous Storyteller (played by John Hurt and later Michael Gambon) and his ever-present dog companion, voiced and operated by Brian Henson.
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