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## *Windigo*

   The **Windigo** is the titular main antagonist of the 2011 horror film *Windigo*. In this adaptation, the Windigo itself is an amalgammation of Slender Man and the Wendigo from Algonquian folklore. It is portrayed as highly sadistic and territorial, brainwashing and murdering any that dare venture into its territory.

 In June 2004, a group of students arrive in Bonville, Ontario, to conduct interviews for their documentary on the impact of deforestation called "Hard Pines" which is beiung directed by the group leader, Reese. However, the group faces several challenges when trying to interview locals for the documentary goes awry.
During a campfire that night, the group of friends begin to tell stories. Kwekon, a group member of nationality, shares the story of the Windigo with them. In the story, Windigos were described as formerly being humans forced into cannibalism or that they were forcibly transformed into Windigos. The Windigos were described as being creatures with elongated limbs, sharp claws and teeth, and have an immense hatred of fire. Kwekon also reveals that his parents were killed by a Windigo when he was younger.
Sometime after another interview with one of the locals, the group meets another camper named Tristan. After performing some shooting in a canoe with an actress named Selina, the group revisits Tristan, and they proceed to get drunk whilst playing cards. Upon losing, Tristan angrily stomps out of his camper. The group also hear Selina waking up, and they follow her into the forests. When they awake the next morning, they mysteriously have no recollection of this and assume her missing. The crew splits up the next day. Along the way, they confront Brandon burying tapes. When Steve threatens Brandon, he flees into the trees wherein he encounters the Windigo. Reuniting with the group, Brandon recants his claims of what took Selina as just a joke.
Later on, one of the tapes depict Brandon attacking a person before leading two people into the forest. Brandon follows a trace of the scattered bones of small animals and eventually discovers the body of Selina. Before he could react, a truck arrives to the scene of the crime, and Steve emerges from it. When asked for his reasons for being there, Steve produces a gun from his truck intending to kill Brandon for the murders. Unfortunately for him, Alain arrives and saves him. However, Alain informs Brandon that he believed that Steve was tormenting him by leaving mud tracks on his property among other grievances, so he intends on torturing him in order to extract information. As he is looking for tools, the door opens by itself, and shortly afterward, Alain is killed.
The film crew arrives to the house, seeing blood seep from under the door. Worse, they see a Windigo appears. They try to shoot at it to no avail. Getting the door opened, Dean appears as a Windigo. The film crew races through the house, with the hope of bringing the tapes with them all while zombie-like people shamble towards them. In fear, Brandon tries to leave with all of the tapes, he gets into a scuffle with Reese. This leads to Brandon getting possessed by the Windigo, but it also ends with the Windigo seemingly perishing due to exposure from fire. Reese proceeds to knock Brandon unconscious and load him at the back of the truck. It is later revealed that there were not any survivors in Bonville aside from Brandon who is being interrogated by the governent. Suddenly, some offscreen force is shown killing the agents all while Brandon begins to violently puke up blood whilst laughing. At this point, Brandon was transforming into the Windigo himself. By the time that the tape ends, all the agents are dead. However, Brandon's whereabouts are unknown.

## *Slender Man* (2018)

   Slender Man serves as the titular main antagonist of the 2018 supernatural horror film of the same name by Sony Pictures. It is portrayed as a malevolent and demonic entity that psychologically tortures its victims before kidnapping them and fusing them with the trees in its forest.

It was played by Javier Botet.

 The film begins with four high school friends - Wren, Hallie, Chloe, and Katie respectively - decide to summon Slender Man after overhearing some of their male friends aiming to do so. Unbeknownst to them, they would end up chickening out of fear. After the four girls watch a video on a site dedicated to the monster, Katie ends up disappearing a week later. A week after the disappearance, the remaining girls investigate her room, discovering that she was researching the Slender Man prior.
After communicating with one of the users on the website, Wren tells Chloe and Hallie that they needed to sacrifice something that they loved in order to get Katie back. She warns them to keep a blindfold over their eyes because directly looking at the Slender Man would make them go insane. Despite her warning, Chloe panics and pulls off her blindfold. Upon catching a glimpse of the Slender Man, Chloe becomes insane. Eventually, the Slender Man abducts her.
Wren continued to be tormented by hallucinations inflicted on her by the Slender Man and continues to try to find a solution to her wows. Hallie tries to proceed with her life but is also given terrifying visions. As a means of trying to communicate with the Slender Man, Wren convinces Hallie's younger sister to help her summon him.
Hallie's sister ends up suffering a panic attack and is bedridden at a hospital. Wren gets kidnapped by the Slender Man making Hallie realize that he wanted them. She approaches the Slender Man and begs him to take her.
However, she quickly changes her mind and tries to escape only to get absorbed into a tree by the Slender Man. Because of her sacrifice, Hallie's sister recovers at the hospital, ending the film reflecting on the deaths of her sister and her friends.