Beware the Slenderman

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I have a rule. I rate documentaries with: 7 if it is great. 6 if it is good. 5 if it is less than good. The reason is: Docs have lower ceilling and higher floors, because they are all at least an extensive view/opinion on something (even if it is morally or factually wrong), and at most they are all edits of real life (no matter how long the doc is and how factual it is, there is subjetivity and therefore not the real thing). This one is pretty straight. Its fine. It informs you of the situation, more or less. And that's pretty much it. There is no doubt about the situation of the girls and the reasons behind what they did. Its a proffesional job of an interesting story, but there isn't much more than that.

The part of this doc that explores the Slenderman myth, its history on the Internet, and its deep roots in folklore is intelligent, stylish, and very much worth watching. The other part of this doc is shockingly naive. It tells the story of two 12-year old girls who lure another young girl into the woods, stab her 19 times, and leave her for dead. The doc would have us believe that these girls are innocents. It takes the attitude that these girls, who at the time of the crime were 12-years old not 7-years old, believed in the Slenderman and that their abject fear of him made them do it. It's pretty obvious from evidence in this very doc that one of these girls, the one who did all the stabbing, is a textbook psychopath who was out for her first thrill kill and that she convinced her weak-willed flunky to come along for the ride. Why the filmmakers don't acknowledge this and why they don't explore this idea in relation to the Slenderman myth is puzzling. I found this aspect of the doc really frustrating. Still, I did like the folklore part, so I'd rate this as half good.