Beware the Slenderman
This movie centers around the murder story of a young girl by her best friends, as two teenagers friends,Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, who takes their best friends in the wood and kill her brutally, as they stabbed her 21 stabs, as they follow the mysterious man in the internet, who is known as ' the slender man'.
24 August 1987, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
January 27, 2017
What emerges is a portrait of the internet as the birthplace of contemporary folklore -- a virtual campfire in which disparate users come together to channel, and distill, their fears, anxieties, and dreams into fanciful tales, à la the Brothers Grimm.
January 31, 2017
Harnessing the simplicity and reach of the Internet is an appropriate technique for this doc, because it's about just that. But using Skype is also a genius tip for any doc maker on a budget. Which is every doc maker.
March 01, 2017
Despite the terrifying and gruesome subject matter, Beware the Slenderman is a documentary that fails to spook or even chill.
January 27, 2017
Beware the Slenderman... goes deeper than a typical true crime doc in fascinating ways.
February 16, 2017
One of the latest great true-crime works out of the HBO Documentary lab...
February 04, 2017
While Beware the Slenderman isn't an easy watch-and will undoubtedly inspire anxiety and panic in some viewers, particularly parents-it's a worthy one that helps make sense of a senseless crime.
January 24, 2017
With no artist in play, it becomes clear how fallacious it is to pin the blame on artists for the actions of disturbed individuals who consumed their art at all.
February 01, 2017
Emotionally unstable kids can do some terrible things, especially when provoked by terrifying ideas, but hopefully frank, honest films like Beware the Slenderman will help make us all a little more attentive to these things in the future.
January 24, 2017
A stark, depressing, and compelling look at the horrendous nature of mental illness and the influence pop culture has over the masses.
May 27, 2016
Irene Taylor Brodsky's documentary is mostly a straightforward, inevitably engrossing true-crime tale.
January 25, 2017
What's notable about Beware the Slenderman is that it doesn't turn into exploitative, sensational fare, instead presenting the facts in such a calm, simplistic way that the end result mirrors a chilling horror film.
July 27, 2016
Brodsky's film has multiple goals, and might have been better served by a docu-series like Netflix's Making a Murderer, given how much it attempts to tackle.
