Should you watch Beware the Slenderman?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Beware the Slenderman
Documentary · 2016
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?
The sides of Beware the Slenderman
- Two 12-year-old girls and an internet legend
- A classmate who survived an attack in the woods in Wisconsin
- Parents trying to understand their daughters
Beware the Slenderman is good for you if…
- you want to understand how an online story led to a real crime.
- you like the chill of a creepypasta that crossed into real life.
- you want to hear parents face what their children did.
Beware the Slenderman is bad for you if…
- you can't take a story about children, violence and mental illness.
- you need answers that bring some peace.
About: the internet · mental illness · childhood
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