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Synopsis

Charlie Rose Boden departs from Dartmouth with a collective of friends and his girlfriend Maggie Fitzgerald to investigate into the story of Slenderman for a Media film project. With the televised cases of several murders and horrible assaults attributed to the legendary cult character thorough research is done into the seemingly made up characters' origins. They are able to trace the character who has gone by various different aliases throughout time back to his original name, description and story: Der Kinder a German bogeyman of mythology who in actual 16th Germany accounts was behind the abduction of several German children living in the Black Forest surrounded rural village of Oakfield, according to the parents, elder siblings, neighbors and fellow townsfolk a humanoid completely white long armed, faceless monster dressed in a gentleman's attire made its' way into their children's bedroom and stole them away into the woods. Few of the taken children were found and what was found was the horrifically contorted, disfigured and mutilated corpses of some of the taken.

Maggie, Charlie's best friend Cooper's roommate Elliot's girlfriend Regina and Maggie's best friend Lena Denholm, Elliot's twin sister seem reluctant to investigate into this story but are persuaded by the accounts being merely superstitious stories and they have the opportunity with Dartmouth's money and very little money on their part to be abroad in beautiful, Southern Germany.

Upon arrival they settle into the quaint snowed in village of Oakfield and begin documenting their interviews with several townsfolk who are reluctant to shed much light on the story and are very hostile towards the youths.

Stacey Donovan an eager, party girl media classmate of Charlie's who is accompanied by her music video assistant director boyfriend Rhys Pratchett come across a widowed tavern owner Dmitri Van Lorken who tells them the story of Der Kinder and that years ago his great aunt was among the children taken