Mike and Jay recently saw the HBO Documentary Beware the Slenderman and noticed some odd coincidental similarities between the Slenderman myth and their own character from an older film they made.
"don't watch our movie 'The Recovered' - it's TERRRRIBLE!" (immediately sell 975 digital copies of their movie) Well played, you hack frauds. Well played.
Mike is supposed to sit on the FUCKING LEFT. (on the floor rocking back and forth) Mike sits on the left, Jay sits on the right. Mike sits on the left, Jay sits on the right. Mike sits on the left, Jay sits on the right.
Now I want Mike and Jay to just pretend like they invented other great horror film monsters, no matter how impossible or outrageous the claim may be. Like "Did RLM invent Freddy Kruger?" "Did RLM invent Jason Voorhees?" etc., etc.
Jake Shattuck: LOL! The only way you could get entertainment out of the prequels is if you fired the DVDs out of a skeet launcher and then shot at them with a 12 gauge.
Wisconsin also plays heavily in the James Cameron universe. In Aliens Eleanor Ripley’s daughter is said to have died in Wisconsin and in Titanic Jack Dawson mentions having fallen through the ice in Wisconsin.
Great more explanation to the RLMCU (Red Letter Media Cinematic Universe) They broke new grounds I saw Slenderman and i clapped Still miles ahead of Dark Universe, the most unwanted thing since my son.
Jay, did you see Candle Cove on Syfy this past fall: based on a Creepy Pasta storyline with Rob Schneider (of Bright Star and the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)? A solid horror show.
Marble Hornets was the best thing to come out of the whole Slender Man thing. It's actually a really great and interesting series that I would definitely recommend despite some amature acting.
Too bad they threw away the licensing rights of the series to a shitty studio that fucked up the entire legacy in one of the worst adaptations of horror films.
Also, didn't Yahtzee Croshaw cite his "thin man" character from ( I think ) "5 days a stranger" as a possible source, also? This guy's cropping up everywhere.
I was introduced to this channel a month or so back, I've since binge'd the majority of your videos and I really love the work you guys put out. Just wanted to drop this as a thank you for all the work you do and for the great entertainment. If RLM is ever to get a Patreon I'd happily chip towards a monthly donation.
I remember when the Marble Hornet videos were first coming out and I distinctly remember the creature in their videos being Slenderman himself. Along with the SA contest, I always attributed his origins to those videos.
Technically Marble Hornets's character was called "The Operator," they created their own mythos outside of the original lore worked out on Something Awful, but The Operator is clearly a derivation of Slenderman.
Can somebody who's seen The Recovered validate my prediction: the business man is a figment of her imagination but somehow helps her to remember something awful that happened in her past?
Well, not really. She's taking a lot of medication for her condition and goes to her mother's house while telling her boyfriend she'll drop the meds. She keeps hearing the phone ringing, and when she picks up, it's ominuos static (like someone is talking but muffled, plus a lot of white noise). During the course of the movie it turns out it's actually people calling but she can't hear them (either because she's crazy, or idk). Then she starts (still using the meds) to remember the fragments of the guy she spoke with, she's unsure. Eventually she throws away the medication and sees dead parents in the living room (can't remember if one goes before the other, sorry), and continues to see the bald guy in her memories as well in a hardware store. Then she sees the bald man torturing her (presumably, father, who is dead) and then gets one of the memories back, where she sees how the bald guy killed her birth mother (she finds out she was adopted in one of the last scenes of the movie). In that same memory, she got him to fall in a trap (Predator style) but while she's remembering that, she's transported to her birth mother's house, running around with a knife and falling on the spikes herself, this time (as an adult). And when you think it's over, she wakes up. Phone rings again, static - the end. During the movie I was thinking maybe the bald man is a figment that helps her forget that she killed her mother (she finds a buried knife in what should be her childhood's hamster grave), like projecting it to that persona. But this way we don't even know if she was adopted or has dreamt it, or if the bald man existed and really killed her birth mother, we're not even sure where she wakes up (it doesn't seem she's at her adoptive mother's house, the one she came to bury and sell the house). It's a clusterfuck. :D
Its ok guys you guys can take credit for Slenderman, just like all the comments in the comment section are just rip offs of your jokes, everyone just copies you. Not being sarcastic, its true.
Man, how was Marble Hornets talked about for 2 seconds? Marble Hornets is probably the 2nd biggest reason that the Slenderman got as popular as it did..
Sadly enough, the ByeBye Man is from _actual_ folklore (shitty as it may be) that predates Slender Man. I don't remember entirely, but pretty sure it's a hobo from the Depression era, who'd hop trains w/his dog - criss-crossing the country -robbing &killing ppl along the way. The movie's directors claim he was a real guy(hence, her whole "this movie's based on a true story! Scary!"🙄) which - fine... I'm sure there _was_ a hobo who jumped trains &robbed/killed ppl at some point in history, but the supernatural blind (lol idk) hobo, who - upon sensing ppl talking about him - would hop a train &find "said" person bc their obsessive Bye Bye Man thoughts would act like a beacon for he, &his bologna dog, to hone in on???😂 Ya, "true story" my ass. -I know "jingling coins" play a role, too, but IDR where they come in at, though🤔
I remember reading that thread years ago. I was immediately going to comment 'Marble Hornets', but you guys covered the timeline pretty well; legitimate claim. Congrats?
I always wonder how much of this is intentional and how much is coincidence. I've had ideas I thought were original, and then I find out someone else already had that idea. Sometimes it's just forgetting something and thinking it was my idea, but sometimes the timing makes that impossible. It's like that old saying, "There's nothing new under the sun." or like that old South Park episode about The Simpsons already doing shit.
Oh, great... Hack and Fraud strike again. Now they're Al Gore'ing creepypasta characters?! That would be like me thinking "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" was secretly based on a short story I wrote when I was 17 called "Snow Globe" because it was the same premise and the main character's name was Joel and at one point in the film he points at a snow globe and goes, "There's actually a great story behind this one..." but then the techs cut him off, shouting, "DON'T comment... just look at the objects." Which I assumed was Charlie Kaufman secretly telling me that he wanted to give me credit but the producers didn't want the hassle of paying me... Wait, you know what? I DID do that. And yes, the short story placed in a contest and was published in a short fiction anthology 3 years earlier. Being John Malcovich was all him though, just FYI.
Disclaimer: after watching this, I know RLM aren't claiming to have invented Slenderman. But just wanted to type that freaky men in black suits is a common theme in a lot of art and narrative. Even the mysterious so called Men in Black (not the comic and the films) have been described in a similar freaky way. And let's not forget the Buffy episode 'Hush' as well... The list goes on...
was hoping you'd also mention the old school Men in Black urban legend. Not the movie where they're good guys. The stories you hear about strange men in black suits intimidating people out of talking about UFOs. It's one of my fav urban legends.
