Why slender game is scary

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In that time, we've seen all manner of Slender -related internet fallout. There are tons of videos of people playing the game and freaking out , and there's even another version of it in the works using Valve's Source engine and incorporating multiplayer. Clearly this is a "thing. As one Kotaku commenter pointed out earlier today when talking about the Source version: "All they did was take Jack Skellington and remove the face.

So, what caused Slender to become such a sensation? The "Slender Man" meme has been around for a good long while. Images with the Slenderman photoshopped in turned up in this super great Something Awful thread , along with spooky backstory.

The whole thing proved to be irresistible. As a child of the 80's and 90's, I watched a lot of Unsolved Mysteries. These pictures take me back to that show, watching as Robert Stack intoned over creepy black and white images of some unknown monster. The Slenderman is really cool. There's just something neat about monsters who dress nicely:.

The Gentlemen on the classic Buffy episode "Hush" weren't just the coolest monsters of the week that show has maybe ever had, they were genuinely scary in a way that Buffy rarely was. Their look—bald head, black suits—channels many of Slenderman's attributes. There's something unnerving about when evil shows up in evening wear.

Then there's "Marble Hornets. As fun as it is to check out spooky photoshopped images, it is infinitely spookier to watch an entire "found" documentary featuring Slendy himself. It's the silence that does it for me—I first watched this in the dark, wearing headphones, until I realized "What the hell am I doing?? The silence matches perfectly with Slenderman's defining attribute—he has no face.

And that, I believe, is the single scariest thing about him. Not his oblong proportions, or propensity for turning up in the margins of your family portraits. This review Helped me decide 1. Had useful details 2. Read my mind 1.

Report this review. Adult Written by torturedbythecia July 23, Very Scary but you've misinformation on Slender Source This is one of the scariest games I've played. I would not recommend it for children who are easily emotionally moved by games. The game doesn't really have anything inappropriate about it. Some people here say Slenderman kills you, but when Slenderman shows up, if you look at him, your screen starts going fuzzy at a faster rate depending on how close he is to you and you eventually lose if your screen reaches full static.

He is not supposed to kill you in this, the idea is that he drives you insane and the level of static is an indication of how "insane" you are. It is a very creepy game because he teleports around and always teleports to a position out of sight and you look at him which starts the "going insane" part.

The myth behind "slenderman" is a little misleading. Yes, the idea is he kidnaps kids. It was something they came up with on some forums one day when they were holding a contest to fake "paranormal" photographs. One guy came up with the idea of "slenderman" and started editing in a very tall man wearing a suit who seems to either have a fully white head or wears a full white hood. People really liked this idea. It is probably disturbing to some degree to talk to children about kidnapping or otherwise, but any responsible parent will teach them these are real threats you face in the world as well.

We told children fairy tales about witches in candy houses who bake children and eat them so I'm not sure Slenderman is any worse of a myth than has been told to children for centuries. These fairy tales have served to both keep children safe by creating ways for them to understand adult dangers in a censored context I.

Nevertheless, this game is extremely scary for me and I'm Had useful details. Read my mind. Parent of a 1, 9, and year-old Written by pepperdog October 7, Parents check this game before you allow access It has been written here in a review that this game is just a pointless waste of time and I would agree, however for my 10 year old it was much more insidious than that.

I disagree with the statement that it isn't suspenseful, my 10 year old son found it very frightening and suffered nightmares after playing this game. Some of his friends love it and don't have an issue but others really did. Helped me decide. Parent of a year-old Written by jaylacooper August 12,