Entertainment news site, Variety, has reported that
Machinima, the Warner Bros. backed digital media company is partnering with
horror writer Clive Barker for an upcoming live-action series based on the web
series Creepy Pasta.
Barker is best known for his creation of iconic horror
stories such as Hellraiser and The Books of Blood.
The new series, titled “Clive Barker’s Creepy Pasta,” will
bring horror fan fiction to live action and feature internet urban legends and
memes such as the Slenderman and Ben Drowned from the site Creepy Pasta.
Countless news sites reporting this story are incorrectly
listing Creepy Pasta as the origin point of the Slenderman mythos. He actually had his genesis on “Something Awful”
an internet based forum.
Since his creation, the figure has found his way into
various forms of media, often, in a thinly veiled disguise, but the new series
will portray the figure directly and derive it's story line from the internet tales.
Slenderman, it appears, is not quite done spreading his horror.
Given the attempted murder by those two girls and the increasing media attention towards an already well known horror meme, is there the risk of a tulpa being accidentally created?
ReplyDeleteMichael that's a good point, and in fact, it's something that I've been talking about for the last few years. The wide ranging focus on such a negative entity may well be interacting with the collective consciousness and creating a destructive tulpa.
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