The don of a girl who attacked a class fellow to appease the fictional character Slender Man is denouncing the movie adaptation of the repugnance meme , saying it popularizes a cataclysm .
Slender Man , whosetrailercame out this week , is about four mellow schooltime girls who perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the myth of Slender Man , an unnaturally tall , faceless military man who stalks children in forests and can further paranoia in those who believe in him . The eccentric , created by Eric Knudsen for aPhotoshop competition in 2009 , has since inspire real attacks — mainly among vernal girls , including reports of a 13 - year - oldstabbingher mom in Ohio and a 14 - twelvemonth - oldsetting her house on firein Florida .
The most extremely - publicizedSlender Man crimewas the 2014 stabbing of 12 - year - old Payton Leutner by Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser , who were of the same age . Anissa and Morgan lure Payton out into the woods and poke her 19 times in an endeavor to show their allegiance to Slender Man and become his protected “ placeholder . ” Luckily , Payton survived . Both girls plead shamefaced to attempted knowing homicide — Morgan will be condemn next month , asking for 40 days in a mental hospital , while Anissa got 25 days in a mental institution .
Anissa ’s father , Bill Weier , tell the Associated Press he ’s upset that a movie was made about Slender Man , especially its impact on untested girls ( the film was approvedin 2016 , two years after the stabbing ) . He called it “ extremely distasteful , ” and said he go for his local dramatic art does n’t show the pic . It does n’t seem like Slender Man includes a fictionalized version of Anissa and Morgan ’s taradiddle — though some have point to drawing seen in the trailer that mime some of Morgan ’s pictures — but for him , it ’s still cash in on a fancied character who inspire very actual tragedies .
“ It ’s derisory they want to make a movie like this , ” Weier said . “ It ’s vulgarise a disaster is what it ’s doing . I ’m not surprised , but in my belief it ’s passing distasteful . All we ’re doing is extending the pain all three of these crime syndicate have gone through . ”
Wesaw similar criticismin 2016 with The Forest , the repulsion movie star Natalie Dormer about Aokigahara , a forest in Japan where people have gone to institutionalize suicide . The flick was accused of trivializing a tragical location to develop a generic spooky moving-picture show . Aokigahara was in the news again this workweek , after YouTuber Logan Paulposted a videoof himself chance a utter soundbox there .
[ viaThe Hollywood Reporter ]
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