We can’t conflate what happens in the movie with the experience of these two girls. Regardless of the fictional characters featured in the movie are portrayed - whether they are treated as victims or act like they have “gone crazy” - a horror film does not represent what really happened in 2014.
What they did was horrible, but the girls are human - not actors in a movie. Don’t get your knowledge about mental illness from a horror movie, and pay attention to the nuances of the actual case because you make assumptions about psychosis. Not everyone who “hears voices” meets the criteria for schizophrenia or another mental illness. Separate fact from fiction.Īccording to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, approximately 100,000 young people experience psychosis each year, and as many as three in 100 people will have an episode at some point in their lives. When you’re talking about the movie, have fun, but leave the young girls out of it. It involves real people, a real victim, and it’s disrespectful to frame a horror movie around such a tragedy. While a horror movie is made for entertainment, we shouldn’t treat the case as if its the same. In the age of sensationalized news coverage and true crime documentaries ( there was actually a documentary made about the attempted murder), it’s easy to see the case itself as entertainment. But this part of the “legend” involves two very real young girls - one of whom has been diagnosed with early onset schizophrenia. It’s easy to list the attempted murder case as just another footnote as to how Slender Man came to be. Slender Man is fictional, but the Slender Man case is real. Whether you plan on seeing the movie in May or watched the trailer because it popped up in your newsfeed, here are four things you should remember. From what we know about the film so far, the plot strays from real-life events, but the attempted murder is so tied to the Slender Man story, it’s difficult to separate the two.
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