Beware the Slenderman

On May 31st, 2014, in the woods outside of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year old girls stabbed their classmate 19 times. This is the true story of what drove them to do it.

In 2014, two Wisconsin teenagers commit the unthinkable: stabbing their classmate in the name of Slenderman, an internet entity that has consumed their reality. Director Irene Taylor traces the evolution of this digital folklore—born from creepypasta forums—into a motivation for attempted murder. The film investigates how a collaborative internet myth metamorphoses into a dangerous delusion, raising haunting questions about the psychology of contagion and the line between invention and belief.