X movie
The movie “X”, more commonly known as “The Slenderman” movie, is an amateur film don by A.J. Meadows. The film was originally a Kick Starter project started in July 12th of 2012. The project reached it funding goal of $10,000 and even surpassed it with $11,012. By February 19th of 2013 the movie was released on Youtube, Steam, and the movie’s main site, reaching half a million views in three weeks alone. In only 2 month’s time the movie was removed from the web entirely due to unexplained copyright. Later in December 6th of the same year the movie made it’s return and had a new name under “X”. This clearly, like the blogs and vlogs, has its own standard of time formating. “X” centers around the setting of two kids following the investigations of their recently deceased father, and an antagonist aside for the Slenderman himself that is bargaining with the slenderman for the safe return of his son. It follows the style of the vlogs in the fact that the film is expressed via footage from the camera’s of the cast.
The important thing about X, is it is the first to bring Slenderman to the movie medium, it offers reference to the historical aspect of Slenderman, and it for once DOESN’T include the traditional proxy and shows an antagonist that willingly works for the Slenderman (So, kind of a proxy, but not anything like the fandom uses usual), and it centers Slenderman once again around children as his proper background describes.
This is the first movie, though ameteur and on a low budget, to actually specifically be about the Slenderman, spreading him to an entire new form of media for him.
The movie X also makes a reference to the Der GroBmann directly and incorporates it into the story. Using it as a tangent to go off of, and correlating myth.
Most other stories have been known to use proxies, something that the movie x lacks. Or at least lacks a familiar form of it. Proxies in other stories depict them working for the Slenderman only because they are under their control, hive mind, collective group, etc. X give the antagonist a motive to work for the slenderman, and that is the safe return of his son. This gives a new light on the mythos, and though the character may be considered a proxy, it is not by traditional means.
On thing that other stories lack are centering Slenderman around children. So stories explain this by claiming that children who escape the Slenderman may be haunted at a later age. In X, this isn’t the case. X brings the mythos back to the base grounds and makes Slenderman a captor of children, of which the main characters are investigating, and the antagonist is trying to get his son back. It breaks back from the fandom and goes back to the original ideas based around the Slenderman.
The important thing about X, is it is the first to bring Slenderman to the movie medium, it offers reference to the historical aspect of Slenderman, and it for once DOESN’T include the traditional proxy and shows an antagonist that willingly works for the Slenderman (So, kind of a proxy, but not anything like the fandom uses usual), and it centers Slenderman once again around children as his proper background describes.
This is the first movie, though ameteur and on a low budget, to actually specifically be about the Slenderman, spreading him to an entire new form of media for him.
The movie X also makes a reference to the Der GroBmann directly and incorporates it into the story. Using it as a tangent to go off of, and correlating myth.
Most other stories have been known to use proxies, something that the movie x lacks. Or at least lacks a familiar form of it. Proxies in other stories depict them working for the Slenderman only because they are under their control, hive mind, collective group, etc. X give the antagonist a motive to work for the slenderman, and that is the safe return of his son. This gives a new light on the mythos, and though the character may be considered a proxy, it is not by traditional means.
On thing that other stories lack are centering Slenderman around children. So stories explain this by claiming that children who escape the Slenderman may be haunted at a later age. In X, this isn’t the case. X brings the mythos back to the base grounds and makes Slenderman a captor of children, of which the main characters are investigating, and the antagonist is trying to get his son back. It breaks back from the fandom and goes back to the original ideas based around the Slenderman.