Slender Man movie not welcome in certain parts of Wisconsin.\n\n The Marcus Corporation, owners of a prominent movie theater chain in the Midwest, announced that they will not screen Slender Man in two Wisconsin counties that are in close proximity to a 2014 stabbing inspired by the fictional character.

Lovecraftian horror, also called "cosmic horror", or "eldritch horror" is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock.