The Disturbing Trailer For ‘Slender Man’ Is Getting Thoroughly Dunked On

Here we go: the first trailer for the Slender Man film is here, and it’s a bit… well… both deeply disturbing and full of every horror movie cliché imaginable.

Writhing maggots, screaming hospital patients, dark woods, a lost child, shadows playing on the walls, bathtubs, unnecessary amounts of hair, acts of violence in the classroom… and a single, ghostly shot of the tall, skinny lad. Oh, and a maniacal child laughing. Of course there is.

Watch the trailer here, and if you can understand what’s even going on, more power to you.

The tagline reads, “He gets in your head like a virus,” which is appropriate for a film based off an almost-decade-old creepypasta. It also comes nearly four years after two incidences of acts of violence inspired by the meme, which doesn’t exactly make this thing timely.

It’s also not the first attempt to portray this meme in film. HBO‘s documentary Beware the Slenderman, which told the story of the two 12-year-old girls who lured their friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times and premiered at South by Southwest in 2016, was a bit hit-and-miss, but at least it came out significantly closer to the 2014 crime.

Reactions to the trailer have been middling at best, although the hype is still certainly there. This movie is probably going to still do okay among the ‘always online in 2010’ crowd.

There’s no release date yet, but we’ll keep you posted.

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