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[xemnasvii]

Now I'd like a few answers, and citations to follow:

Is Marble Hornets the first Slendy Vlog?
If not, what was?

Where is the first mention of Slenderman?(I'm aware of the whole Victor Surge thing, but I'd like the actual post.)

[Das Omega]

[t3hkender]

I'm interested. It's hard to tell from the trailers whether Entity or Hylo will be good or bad. I think that most people's reservations about them (and indeed any Slender Man movie) are that they must, by being in movie format, deviate from the way of storytelling that Slender Fans are used to: The ARG (or, in the case of Marble Hornets, a longer, drawn-out, "real time" storytelling).

To those saying "oh, they're just ripping off Marble Hornets, they even stole the Operator symbol" please keep in mind that the Slender Man mythos (yeah, yeah, Operator isn't Slender Man, blah blah blah) is a collective storytelling. Things like the video tears, audio static, and the Operator symbol aren't being stolen from Marble Hornets. Marble Hornets created a lot of those elements, yes, but they have since largely become standard parts of the Slender Man character. Especially in the case of attributes that originated from (or were popularized by) the Big Three Slender Vlogs, I think it's fair to call those elements central parts of the collective Mythos.

As far as I can tell, both stories are original (at least, as original as cliche horror film concepts can be) so even if elements like the Slender Man's attributes or the Operator symbol are used, to me they're so much a part of the character that I would feel weird if they weren't there.

That being said, I do hope that the movie doesn't try to define what the Operator symbol 'does' or 'represents'. That wouldn't be fair to the Marble Hornets crew, because while I do feel like it's a part of the Slenderverse that anyone should feel free to use, I do feel like they own the right to define it, if they ever choose to.

TLDR: Everyone's bawwing because it's not in ARG format, and all of that Marble Hornets stuff is part of the mythos they're drawing from so don't feel like they're stealing it.

[AngryDeepground]

I disagree, we're worried because the trailers seem like generic horror trailers, and not intelligent.

[LegitimatelyTaylor]

[Tharol]

Possible bad movie trailer nut much for films there.

[Black Sand]

Slenderman looks like he has my friend's fingernails.

WHY DID THEY CLICHE IT UP

This is gonna be so bad

OPY SYMBOL. WHY?

[SignerJ]

The creators of "Entity" evidently think that it is going to be "pathological horror" and "unlike any other horror movie that has been made." The trailer, however, does not make it seem like that at all.

On the other hand, Hylo is premiering today, at THAT movie seems like it will be much more true to our current Slender Man. We just have to wait and see, I suppose.

[ChildOfAtom]

[phoenix.pinion]

The dark close-up shot of SM's claws kinda reminds me of Freddy.

...Just me?

Otherwise, it looks like a meh horror movie. We'll see, I suppose.

[robgmartin]

Looks like an ARG aspect is being tied in

[7brokenboundaries]

I liked that. It certainly has good production value, and it's starting off with an interesting premises. To really judge this I think we'll have to see how they handle it in the long run. certainly not a bad start, though

[Aurastys]

[punxtr]

Unless you can interact with the PMs in this channel, it's not an ARG. :facepalm:

Also, I like the video a good bit. Subscribed.

[KTsteve]

I am incredibly surprised, that was an amazing first entry. Hope it continues.

So quick question what happened there when he was at the site? I understood it as they saw something, then cut all the lights to hunt it down.