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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, This Just In is a subset of the fortnightly The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best(and the 100 worst) movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Sylvain White’s Slender Man.

Notes:

• Recorded 17th November 2018.
• Because this is the first new episode the pair recorded together after the show’s second anniversary, Andrew and Darren run through their own answers to the questions from The 250 Anniversary Special 2018.
• Andrew misremembers the “recursive nightmare” sketch as being a Mitchell and Webb joke, it is an Armstrong and Miller gag.
• Slender Man at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Frank Dux offers an oral history of Blood Sport at /Film.
• History vs. Hollywood explores the evidence of Frank Dux’s claims.
• Jean-Claude Van Damme discusses showing Kylie Minogue his “Thailand” during the filming of Street Fighter with Kotaku.
• Lucia Peters at Bustle explains the concept of “creepypasta.”
• MemeBuster looks at the fake news claiming Queen Elizabeth II suggested that Donald Trump should be more like Duterte.
• Patricia Hernandez at Kotaku on the urban legend about the music in Lavender Town in Pokemon driving children insane.
• Eric Grundhauser at Atlas Obscura discusses the urban legend around Candle Cove.
• Annalee Newitz at io9 discusses the meme of “Jeff the Killer.”
• A history of the Slender Man meme from Know Your Meme.
• Bryn Lovitt at Rolling Stone charts the growth and evolution of the Slender Man meme from its humble origins.
• Jess Joho at Mashable ponders what makes Slender Man such an effective digital ghoul.
• Thomas Pettitt discusses his theory of “the Guttenberg Parenthesis” at Nieman Labs.
• Tye Van Horn at The Elm discusses the cultural relevance of Slender Man.
• Alex Mar at The Guardian offers an account of the Payton Leutner stabbing.
• Kevin Melrose at Comic Book Resources offers an account of another teenage crime where the perpetrator credited Slender Man.
• Bill Weier, father of Anissa Weier, criticises the film in The Guardian.
• Nicole Kobie at Wired on the internet’s rehabilitation of Slender Man following the stabbings.
• Brad Miska at Bloody Disgusting reports on how Sony editted and cut Slender Man in an effort to preempt potential controversy.
• Carli Velocci at The Verge on how the film serves as “the nail in the coffin” of Slender Man as an effective internet monster.
• Brent Lang at Variety on reports that the producers of Slender Man were shopping it around other studios before release.
• “Recursive Nightmare” from Armstrong and Miller.
• Jacqueline Howard at The Huffington Post on how the internet rewires the human brain.
• Big Grande on YouTube.
• Podge and Rodge’s A Scare at Bedtime on YouTube.
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