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Beware the Slenderman

2016

Irene Taylor Brodsky

Documentary

5.7

1,620

Documentary. Horror On May 31st 2014 , in the woods outside Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls stabbed their classmate 19 times.

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Irene Taylor Brodsky's documentary is mostly a straightforward, inevitably engrossing true-crime tale."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Brodsky’s film has multiple goals, and might have been better served by a docu-series (...) given how much it attempts to tackle."	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Recounts their deeds with fascinating specificity, showing the extent to which this 21st century boogeyman grew more powerful than any safety measure to contain its influence."	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"[It] is both haunting and poignant, a sad tale of what bullying, untreated mental illness and crushing loneliness can create (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"Brodsky does a superb job; this is one of those rare documentaries that you simply can’t not watch, horrific and deeply disturbing though it may be."	POS
United States	Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times	"It’s a deeply unsettling look at childhood mental illness, the blurred line between the virtual and real, and the potency of internet memes."	POS
United States	Clark Collis Entertainment Weekly	"[A] horribly compelling documentary"	POS

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