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[SlendoMusic]

[Dray]

Distilled, would you like a dialing wand?

Sucks about the lack of net, though!

[Arison]

[Dray]

We tried to get a friend to watch it with us, but she was so unimpressed with Jay going to the house at night, and then GOING BACK at night that she couldn't watch the rest!

[spaekle]

I keep trying to get my friends to watch it but most of them won't. :v I did manage to get one into it, but I think she's gotten too bored with the pacing as of late.

Excited for Sunday

[distilled]

I tried to pursuade a couple of my friends to get into MH but they wussed out after about 3 entries! They don't seem to enjoy the fear as we do!

[AKLY]

I tried to get two of my friends into it. Once was too lazy to watch all the entries. The other has been following it just to keep up with my blather, but she thinks Slenderman isn't scary at all. X3

[lifegospel]

OK guys, so my drama class is doing a "horror" unit for the next few weeks, and I want to use the Slenderman in some way. Any ideas on how I can do it? (I don't have any tentacles, so those are out of the question.)

[Dray]

Oh man, that's a toughy. It's really been done to death with all of the people mimicking Marble Hornets.

We see a lot of Slender stalking but not the aftermath, as we know that 100% always ends with disappearances or organs and bodies in trees. We've seen the whole 'friend seeking out the truth about a missing friend'. We've seen a first person stalking. I think we might have seen a couple of cases in blog form of people THINKING that they were stalked but with the truth of that being irrelevant to the mental issues at hand.

If you want to use Slender Man, you should probably break down what kind of horror he and his actions fall under. Themes that I can think of off the top of my head:

-Childhood fears made real
--Fear of the dark
--Fear of strangers
--Bougiemen
--'What's around the corner?'
--'What's just outside my window when I'm not looking?'
--'What is 'safe' -- such as tucked into bed -- and what is not -- such as closets, under the bed'
-Being watched by Big Brother/The Man more and more closely
-Having friends stripped away by something we can't control
-Coping with loss of control and how that makes people fucked up
-Paranoia and how that isolates a person
-Supernatural or paranormal forces (Forces of nature personified)
-No longer being at the top of the food chain

...Anyways, most of the horror here seems psychological, moreso than we see gore and violence. The potential threat instead of the kinetic one, herpderp!

If you're doing a one-man act, you would probably have the most luck with a descent into madness schtick. Alternately, having the focus be on someone close to the person who's going mad, and how they deal with that, could be interesting. Kind of like a psychological zombie bite, the friend is 'infected' with paranoia and fear and it becomes catching? (this is all so very Canadian, no blood or guts anywhere. XD)

[lifegospel]

Well, what the assignment is is to create a scene (No scripts allowed) that scares the audience in some way. One group that I had *right* after I posted the last message did a fake lockdown by using a speaker in our room that didn't transmit to any other classrooms.

So if I want psycological horror... I'll need dark, I'll need sounds, I'll need Masky :3

[Dray]

Flashlights that flicker and don't quite work, if you can get them to do so! XD Can't really get any of the horror that you see a lot in films without slipping them some acid or something, though. If you can get a small girl in your group, you can always go for a statue/doll that comes to life to frighten people! XDD It sounds like fun!

[Jesoteric]

[SticktheFigure]

[spaekle]

OH MY GOD GUYZZZZ SLENDERMAN DID IT!!!111

[Dray]

Funny that you say that there's no Slendy shooped in... >_>"""""" Spaekle, maybe you should set up a blog or something so that we can track your degrading sanity over the next few days...?