Beware the Slenderman

(2016)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 272 votes

Genres: Documentary, Crime

Year: 2016

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Irene Taylor

Cast: Morgan Geyser, Anissa Weier, Payton Leutner, Angie Geyser, William Weier, Michael O. Bohren, Michelle Trussoni, Kristi Weier, Trevor J. Blank, Brad Kim

Plot

In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?

Lurking in the shadows of the Internet, a faceless modern-day bogeyman has attracted the attention and fear of a young generation who whisper his name online. Slenderman lives on the dark pages of the web, where impressionable youth create and cultivate his mythos in message boards, YouTube clips and various other digital incantations. But the online fairy tale becomes a shocking real-life horror as two 12-year-old girls, guided by their devotion to Slenderman, lure their friend into the woods to attempt a seemingly inexplicable, brutal murder. From the depths of one the Internet's most unsettling creations to the court case that must consider the consequences, Beware the Slenderman brings to light questions of accountability in an age where young, growing minds are only a few clicks away from creating and consuming something that may influence them to commit unspeakable crimes.