Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Artist Statement

Here is the artist statement for the Slenderman short film now titled "Slenderman Emergence"



Chris Dike
“Slenderman Emergence”

Slenderman is an internet-born boogeyman character with a plethora of stories and series made of him and his doings.  He has a variety of supernatural abilities and traits that make him an ideal character for the horror genre.  Most of the existing fiction surrounding Slenderman deals with him driving victims to the brink of insanity and killing them.  Since I haven’t delved into his various stories I figured I could tell a different story about him with fresh eyes.  I took the rules of his existing canon and came up with somewhat of an origin story for him in a cinematic style, as opposed to the found-footage style of other series about him.