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The Slender Man meme that caught the Internet by storm in the early '10s is being turned into a Hollywood horror movie, according to a report.

A movie on the mythical figure - which is said to kidnap and kill children - is being brought to the big screen by Mythology Entertainment, the team behind Resident Evil.

It is unclear whether the film will address the real-life events - which saw two schoolgirls allegedly inflict 19 puncture wounds on a classmate in order to join his cult in 2014 - but the script will be written by David Birke (13 Sins), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

It is also reported that Mythology’s Bradley Fischer, William Sherak and Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt will produce the flick.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/slender-man-meme-being-turned-7920855
 
I hope it doesn't reflect real life events, the people involved in that have suffered enough and it would be in extremely bad taste so close to the attempted murder. Has that even gone to trial yet?
 
At least one of the two girls who killed for Slender Man is pleading insanity.

For me. this is one of the cases where they MUST have been insane - but on the other hand I think they are just horrible people.
 
I have known the father of one of those kids for years (I met him on a forum similar to this!), and I was genuinely shocked when I read about what had happened. This guy had always struck me as a particularly loving Dad. He never stopped posting pics of him and his kids having fun and eating ice-cream and looking like a sweet, happy family. I don't know exactly how he raised his kids, but I would bet that those kids had a far better upbringing than most. Either way, I am entirely sure that this tragedy is far complex than simply being a case of bad parenting.
 
Plenty of kids with bad parents turn out fine, and some kids with a supportive upbringing take a wrong turn for various reasons. I don't know if it's helpful to label such children as evil, however, if they have not matured sufficiently towards the capacity for proper moral judgements for their actions. Mind you, some adults haven't matured that far either.
 
Usually there is one that leads and the other to an extent falls under the spell. In this day and age with everyone too busy to look at whats going on around them it's too easy for parents to just not see or understand what's happening to their kids.

I think parenting plays a part, removing the internet would have helped, but kids are so self-absorbed and allowed to be so and then when the hook up with similar kids things tend to get out of hand.

Just look at the self-harm "cutting groups" that plague kids in schools these days where you have several kids cutting themselves.

Does anyone remember people self harming at schools when you were at school? No? So what has changed?

In the US a lot of responsibility falls on the drug companies and Health Services for the powerful drugs, (SSRI's, etc) they prescribed normal "wild" kids and turned them into killers.
 
.. and as has already been pointed out, we don't like to think about it but the truth is ... sometimes people of any age, gender, race etc .. are just plain bad.

But Swifty mate - do you believe that people are inherently born bad? Do you think a 2 month year old baby could be categorically "bad"?

If so, any ideas why this might be the case?
 
Bad, no - with a generic or early-developed disposition to act in ways that society judges negatively: possibly.

It's frightening, but events in early life that seem innoccuous and may pass unnoticed could well result in major changes in personality later in life. The thread of causality, however, is likely to be so tangled and faint as to defy detection.

How we become the people we are - psychologically speaking - is shockingly complex and most attempts to chart the course paint in broad strokes and focus on extreme cases and outcomes.
 
But Swifty mate - do you believe that people are inherently born bad? Do you think a 2 month year old baby could be categorically "bad"?

If so, any ideas why this might be the case?
That's the billion dollar question isn't it ? ... I wouldn't know if people can be born 'bad' or not, I think they can become 'bad' through a mixture of circumstances, usually self survival instincts would be my best bet. I'm sure we've all done things in the past that we're not proud of at some point or other and often with good intentions to start out with. Not confronting and atoning for these actions but 'digging yourself into a deeper hole' would probably explain most 'bad' people IMO ..
 
I hear ya mate.

Although I'm not sure many folk committed acts of horrible violence towards someone with good intentions to start off with. Or for survival.
 
That's the billion dollar question isn't it ? ... I wouldn't know if people can be born 'bad' or not, I think they can become 'bad' through a mixture of circumstances, usually self survival instincts would be my best bet. I'm sure we've all done things in the past that we're not proud of at some point or other and often with good intentions to start out with. Not confronting and atoning for these actions but 'digging yourself into a deeper hole' would probably explain most 'bad' people IMO ..

I think some people probably are born "bad" in that they take pleasure in the suffering of others from a very early age and never develop empathy for others. I don't think all sociopathic behaviour can be explained solely by environmental factors.
 
But where would this form of pleasure derive from?

I'm not trying be pedantic just find it a fascinating subject to explore.
 
^ and in the case of children, such people to have an impression would generally be family members and parents. Those tasked with raising and socialising them. I'd argue that rather than simply being "bad", kids that kill have had problematic and less than positive experiences of this raising and socialisation.

Which was my original point on this thread.
 
I wasn't thinking about anything even vaguely as clear cut as decisions about child-rearing. What I meant to suggest is far, far more basic and ineffable. Let me give you a mundane and harmless example: why might one child prefer one colour over another? Yes, there could be a genetic component, but consider also:

Perhaps the first time that that colour was perceived and cognitively processed, the child had indigestion, or there was an unpleasant noise or troubling shadow in the room that triggered some latent animalistic response. Perhaps a loud or unusually tall figure was wearing that colour, or a food that the child choked on was also the same or a similar hue.

Again - why might a child (and later the adult) be attracted to a certain face-type or eye colour? Perhaps in their nursery there hung a picture of a person with that type of face and - by pure chance - it happened to be in the warmest or best lit part of the room - or nearer to the child's mother's bed - or near a favoured toy: here the inkling of an association forms that may or may not be reinforced by countless later experiences.

And these examples are still horribly simplistic. Likes, loves, fear, fetishes, harmless tendencies and idiosyncracies are probably the combined products of thousands or hundreds of thousands of environmental interactions in early life - a matrix of factors far too complex to be unraveled, let alone controlled or predicted.

No single event is likely to make a child 'bad', but such complex interplays as I have sketched may well inculcate tendencies to disobey, a weakening or strengthening of natural willpower, unusual impatience, failures in self-control, a sadistic of masochistic streak (or whatever), and these could cause problems later in life.

And as a parent I find that marvellous and profoundly troubling!
 
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To put it even blunter - nurture over nature. I agree.

There is no such thing as being "born bad".
 
I agree.
But if that nurture is so fiendishly complex as to be uncontrollable, it may as well be nature for all you can do about it.
 
Well I'd say chaotic rather than uncontrollable.

And I think generally that's probably true. But in extreme cases maybe more obvious. Take for example, I dunno, both Fred and Rose West. Read up on both of their childhoods and tell me that either one was ever going to have a peaceful and content existence.
 
It would be interesting to know if Fred and Rose's kids have been in much trouble with the law and if so, to what extent.
 
Their son Stephen did time in 2014 for sex with an underage girl. How suprising eh.
 
I take it that the media and the world in general has no concern whatsoever that an X within a circle is the putative symbol for the "X Files" tv/movie franchise?

In this case, the sign became associated with Slenderman via its use in the Marble Hornets project as a graffiti for a blank face, which I don't think was the first homegrown Youtube project for the mythos but definitely the most well-known at first. It's one of the elements unique to that particular Slenderman work.

(sorry for the new account, I think my old one was attached to a long-dead college email. Haven't posted in ages.)
 
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