The reason I bring this particular channel up instead of the other fan movies or stories is not only because it is the most popular, but it is also an official partner of Slender: The Arrival. For what is literally a fanfiction, it isn’t terrible, and is surprisingly good if you look at it from that perspective, but it is hardly recommendable to a general audience. Still, even at its best, it’s just a guy walking through the woods with a camera and every once in a while someone going “ boo,” and at its worst it’s poorly acted melodrama with a nonsense story straight out of a fanfiction. To date they have somewhere around 70 videos, and I have watched up to about 50, and there are a few great ones scattered here and there. It jumps the megalodon straight into the unwatchable valley. It all goes downhill when they introduce an alternate channel thats full of illuminati code with distorted sound and flashing images and a strange masked man “ hacks the channel” to upload videos. Camera distortions ensue, strange drawings are found, mysteries are afoot, and shits get retarded. Soon, the same thing begins stalking Jay, and the hunt is on to find out what exactly is going on. It is revealed that not all of the tapes are of the shooting of the movie, but some are of Alex as he attempts to document something stalking him. Soon, Jay is disturbed by the presence of a mysterious tall figure in the background of some of the shots. The name of the YouTube channel is eponymous with the film, “The Marble Hornets,” so other than the uncanny found footage and text on screen presentation, nothing is immediately sinister. What started as a simple photoshop of a tall man in the background of a playground for a SomethingAwful thread spawned the mythos of some kind of eater of children with ethereal tentacles coming from somewhere behind him.Īnytime your monster eats specifically children, shit starts silly, but it was creepy enough that it spawned the web video series “The Marble Hornets.” The premise was simple enough Jay, the protagonist and main narrator through the series, receives a number of tapes from his high school friend Alex of a movie they shot but never edited together. The internet has this habit of ruining good ideas with over complication, and Slenderman is not free from these insidious tendrils. I can’t really blame anyone that does, since even before teenagers started killing people in his name, he was kind of silly. It is really popular and easy to bash Slenderman these days.
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