HBO Has Made A Terrifying Slender Man Documentary, Because You Weirdos Love Being Scared
Whyyyy.
Because this is the week of deeply unsettling news HBO have released the trailer for Beware the Slender Man, a documentary which explores the 2014 attempted murder of a 12-year-old girl by her friends, who were inspired by a meme.
For those unfamiliar with the case, two 12-year-old girls in Milwaukee to stab one of their friends 19 times in order to win Slender Man’s — a figure born out of a horror forum — protection. Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser lured their friend Payton Leutner (or ‘Bella’) into the woods and under the guise of playing hide and seek, they attacked Bella as a “blood sacrifice” to Slender Man, something they had been planning to do for months. Miraculously, Bella was able to crawl to the nearest highway for help.
The documentary was shot over 18 months and apparently “plunges deep down the rabbit hole of their crime, a Boogeyman and our society’s most impressionable consumers of media. The entrance to the internet can quickly lead us to its dark basement, within just a matter of clicks. How much do we hold children responsible for what they find there?”
Sounds fun!