Beware the Slenderman
Mar 11 2016
•2h 55m
•Documentary, Crime
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?
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Morgan Geyser
Self
Anissa Weier
Self
Payton Leutner
Self (archive footage)
Angie Geyser
Self
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