Urban Myth Doc ‘Beware the Slenderman’ Debuts on HBO

By Michael Malone
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Beware the Slenderman, a documentary about an urban myth that nearly claimed a young life, debuts on HBO Monday (Jan. 23) at 10 pm. ET/PT.

Irene Taylor Brodsky directed the film, about two Wisconsin 12-year-old girls who stabbed a friend and left her for dead out of deference for the fictional Slenderman, an Internet creation.

Beware the Slenderman features interviews with experts who help put the girls’ mental state and the Slenderman myth in context, revealing “how adolescent isolation, mental health issues and the nebulous reality of the Internet created a chilling mandate for two young girls, with life-altering consequences,” HBO said.

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Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.