Days after the electoral win of Donald Trump, which many Americans consider a nightmare; HBO released the haunting trailer of its newest crime documentary "Beware The Slender Man." The chilling documentary, dubbed as "a nightmare come true," features the 2014 Wisconsin Teen stabbing.
Allegedly, the suspects were influenced by the crime-inflicting mythical paranormal character by the site CreepyPasta. The website features a collection of horror stories passed on from one person to another through web forums. Slender Man is an abnormally thin and disturbingly faceless creature wearing a black suit, which abducts children and murders them.
The web boogeyman was originally a meme created in 2009 by Eric Knudsen for the "Something Awful" forums. Now, the Slender Man is coming to visit people's homes through their television screens. According to the Huffington Post, this documentary looks way scarier than the US election results and the nightmare every American will face under Trump's administration.
Public anxiety began in 2014 when then two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls namely Anissa Weiner and Morgan Geyser nearly killed their classmate Patyon Leutner to please the Slender Man. They stabbed the victim 19 times so they could become "proxies" of their favorite internet horror character. Leutner survived to tell the traumatic tale.
In a BuzzFeed interview, director Irene Taylor Brodsky said, "the narrative does not evolve around guilt or innocence, but instead the court's deliberation whether the girls should be tried as adults or children." Weiner and Geyser are charged with first-degree attempted homicide and both pleaded not guilty.
The case is still a work in progress and the juvenile suspects will be appearing again in court on Friday, Nov. 18. "Beware the Slender Man" will be aired on Jan. 23, 2017 on HBO. The documentary will feature snippets of home videos and taped confessions, as well as interviews with the girls' family members.
Watch the trailer to see how nightmarish it really is. Do you agree with critics that it is way scarier than waking up to Trump's leadership? Share your thoughts on the comment section below.
