Lynne McNeill, an associate professor of folklore at Utah State University, discussed the connection between digital media ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Two Wisconsin teenagers will go to trial in adult court, a judge ruled today, in a case charging them with stabbing their friend 19 times to please a fictional character named Slender ...

What darkness lies in the dreamy imaginative mind of young girls? The mystery has been a source of inspiration for horror classics from “The Bad Seed” to “The Exorcist,” and it could have been a ...

Last week, a new documentary called Beware the Slenderman opened at SXSW, the Texan arts and music festival. The HBO film follows the origins of Slender Man, and story of the two 12-year-old-girls who ...

Gaunt and faceless in a black suit, the Slender Man is a fiend made to stalk the dreams of the Internet era. When two 12-year-old girls were asked why they allegedly lured a third girl into the ...

The mother of a Wisconsin girl who survived a stabbing in 2014 by her two classmates aiming to please the fictional horror character “Slender Man” said her daughter slept with scissors under her ...

It was only a matter of time before some major studio made a movie out of Slender Man, the frightening internet meme about a faceless, gaunt and tentacled specter who kidnaps children and also loves ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Screen Gems has released the first trailer for ...

Creepypasta may have been born on the internet but it still borrows heavily from previous storytelling traditions. [Slender Man, the new movie based on one of the web’s most well-known scary stories, ...

Evidence presented in court for what has become known as the "Slender Man stabbing" included disturbing pages from one of the 12-year-old suspect's notebooks and her mutilated dolls. Evidence ...

"Slender Man" does for YouTube what "The Ring" did for VHS, but really, really, really badly. A tasteless and inedibly undercooked serving of the internet’s stalest Creepypasta, “Slender Man” aspires ...