For me, a popular 1984 film called The NeverEnding Story stood in place of the Slender Man’s well-wrought wiki. I was in second grade when the film was released. An expensive West German production full of fantastic creatures, the film follows Bastian, a bookish and bullied boy, and his absorption into an alternate universe called Fantasia, which happens via a mysterious book snatched from a dusty bookstore. In Fantasia, the mystical Childlike Empress has fallen ill, and a young hero, Atreyu, is sent on a quest to find a cure. Meanwhile, a terrible force called the Nothing is destroying their
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I wonder if Everett Percival’s Dr No owes anything to this film?
