Found-footage horror simply wouldn't carry the genre prominence it does today without The Blair Witch Project, but the terror we experienced in 1999 was more than just a nubile film-style in definitive form. Where inspired offshoots like Cloverfield, REC, Paranormal Acitivity and VHS give you physical glimpses and full-on encounters with their evil subjects, The Blair Witch never once compromised its minimalist slow-drip of implied terror. Much like its cinematic predecessor, Slender: The Eight Pages is based on the legend of an evil, supernatural being who stalks people, drives them mad with fear and ultimately hauls them off into the woods for killing. Slenderman, if you didnt know, is that faceless, long-limbed man in a suit, pictured above. He is very evil. Do not read any further. Slender: The Arrival takes The Blair Witchs camcorder convention very seriously. It even has a little, red REC blip flashing in the corner. The difference in graphical quality between the original and sequel is night and day, but the core, horror mechanic remains effective in both iterations. Its the looming threat of an evil force we rarely see that haunts us. The Blair Witch uses minimalist camera techniques, and Slender achieves a similar effect with a bare bones gameplay loop that actively exploits the same source of paranoia. If you see Slenderman, it's either too late or time to run. You cannot fight back and you cannot stop moving, or you are nothing. In the end, he will find you. Always watching. No eyes. No no no no no no no no no
Real Science Magazine called James' addiction to video games "sexually attractive." He also worked really hard and got really lucky in college and earned some awards for acting, improv and stand-up, but nobody cares about that out here in LA. So... He's starting over fresh, performing when He can. His profile picture features James as Serbian, vampire comic Dorde Mehailo with His anonymous Brother and Uncle at the Nerdmelt Showroom in West Hollywood. In James' spare time, he engages in acting, writing, athletics, hydration, hours of great pondering and generally wishing you'd like him.
