Was Slenderman the basis for the movie's Hollowgast design?
In Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the secondary villains are Hollowgasts, large, monstrous, faceless creatures. Their design is exactly like the creepy pasta urban legend of Slenderman. Long limbs, no facial features, hides in the shadows, hunts children, very sharp suit. Even the tentacles are similar, though the book used tentacles from their mouths, and Slenderman has tentacles from his limbs/back.
Was this intentionally done? Is there any production or word of God explication for the similarity? The book examples of Hollowgasts have facial features, and are somewhat different.
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There are no official answers by producers if the hollowgasts are based on slenderman or not, but everything indicates that they indeed are.
While in the book they resemble humans with tentacles protruding from their mouths, in the film adaptation their design was clearly far more based on Slender Man, as they are portrayed as bald, pale, unrealistically tall, wearing suits, and are missing most of their face.
Even without the visual similarities, both possess tentacles, are very tall in stature, and prey on children. In the books, they fed on the children's souls, while in the films they consume their eyes. Also like Slenderman, most people are unable to see them.
The main difference is that the Hollowgasts origin are known, and they can be controlled by others, rather than being the ones in control like Slender Man.
For me it seems like they look like a mixture between the hollowgast book version and the slenderman.
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Possibly to use a up to date MONSTER like slender man to scare children and adults alike. Its a movie trick I think.
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