Almost 20,000 people have signed an online petition opposing Sony Pictures’ planned release of a horror movie called “Slender Man,” the character who inspired two Waukesha girls to plot the stabbing death of their sixth-grade classmate in 2014.
Sony released a trailer for the film this week. It is scheduled for release in May.
“This is crass commercialism at its worst,” wrote Alison Perris, who started the petition at Care2