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BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN (2017): HBO Offers Air Date For Documentary

Beware The Slenderman

HBO Announces Premiere Date For Beware The Slenderman

HBO said today that it plans to premiere its true crime documentary Beware the Slenderman on Monday, January 23rd.

The documentary, which follows the story of the bizarre Slenderman killings, will air on the network as well as be available on HBO NOW, HBO GO, and HBO On Demand as well as on other outlets:

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The news horrified the world: Two 12-year-old American girls lured a friend into the Wisconsin woods and stabbed her 19 times in an effort to appease a faceless mythical entity known online as Slenderman. But there’s more to the story than the dark headlines it generated. Delving deep into this shocking crime, the sobering documentary Beware the Slenderman examines how an urban myth could take root in impressionable young minds, leading to an unspeakable act.

Directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky (HBO’s Oscar-nominated The Final Inch), Beware the Slenderman covers all sides of this unusual ongoing case, drawing on an eerie array of Slenderman-inspired art, games and self-produced video, all culled from the Internet, along with heart-wrenching, unprecedented access to the two girls’ families, courtroom testimony and interrogation-room footage.

Beware the Slenderman features interviews with experts who help put the girls’ mental state and the Slenderman myth in context, including: digital folklorist Trevor J. Blank, Ph.D.; Brad Kim, editor-in-chief, KnowYourMeme.com; evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, Ph.D.;

Leave your thoughts on HBO announcing that it plans to air its true crime documentary Beware the Slenderman on Monday, January 23rd (via Comingsoon.net) in the comments section below. Readers seeking more movie news can visit our Movie News Page, our Movie News Twitter Page, our Movie News Facebook Page, and our Movie News Google+ Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and Facebook. Beware the Slenderman will premiere on HBO on January 23rd.

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