Beware the Slenderman
On May 31st, 2014, in the woods outside of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year old girls stabbed their classmate 19 times. This is the true story of what drove them to do it.
Synopsis
Beware the Slenderman (2016) is an HBO true-crime documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Irene Taylor digs into a case that shook Wisconsin: two twelve-year-old girls lured a classmate into the woods and left her with nineteen stab wounds.
The victim crawled out alive while the girls walked off to meet a creature that lives only online — a tall, faceless figure in a dark suit who began as a forum scare story and spread across the web. Taylor skips the gore. Instead she sits with the parents, plays back hours of police interviews, scrolls through the children's messages, and keeps circling one question: where does a kid's make-believe end and accountability begin for what they absorb on a screen.
Folklorist Jack Zipes and biologist Richard Dawkins turn up on camera to explain how a viral myth can take hold of an unformed mind. The result is less a monster movie than a bleak-into-your-bones portrait of two families and a childhood spent online. Built for viewers who want their true crime patient and thoughtful. Stream Beware the Slenderman (2016) online on iFILM.
Starring
Recommendations
Comments 0