Beware The Slenderman
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| HBO | Release Date: January 23, 2017 |
Summary:
Irene Taylor Brodsky's documentary examines the case of two 12-year-old girls who stabbed a friend 19 times in the woods because of an internet urban myth called the "slenderman."
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Positive:
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0
Jan 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Compelling documentary.... Director Irene Taylor Brodsky utilizes police interrogation footage and interviews with the pair's families to craft not a tale about imaginary monsters, but about the far more terrifying subject of real-life mental-health issues. [27 Jan 2017, p.54]
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Jan 23, 2017
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Jan 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
A late-in-the-film reveal throws a new light over the entire situation, one that both goes a long way toward explaining things but also illuminating the danger of pat answers to thorny tragedies that belie such solutions. It’s clear why Brodsky held it back; it would have offered an Occam’s razor of rationalization to something the director feels shouldn’t be explicable.
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Jan 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
That Slender Man also seems evil serves to enhance, rather than lessen, his power over the imagination. But that power also comes from the belief that Slender Man is real-- and it’s in grappling with this troubling issue that the documentary makes its darkest, most complicated point. ... At two hours, it contains a bit too much footage of the backs of people’s heads in a courtroom, when it could be delving deeper into other topics related to the girls’ case.
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Air Date: January 23, 2017
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