I wanted the Slenderman to kill me after watching this

djkeon

In a global pandemic with nothing else to do and nowhere to go, this was STILL a regretful waste of two hours.

Young kids (12 isn't that young) read scary stories on the internet and have been consuming horror for as long as stories have been around. How many of them stab their friend 19 times? Just two, but apparently it's the iPad's fault.

I would guess the victim's family declined to participate, but to make no mention of that and centre the narrative exclusively around the two would-be murderers was flat wrong. Is this an in-depth look at the child psychology of two clearly disturbed children? No. Is this an in-depth look at the danger of media and technology for developing minds? Also no. Does it provide any more insight or information to the story that you can't get from an article? No.

I don't know how "spoilers" are possible when this documentary contains almost no interesting or novel content. A good documentary provides relevant information and allows the viewer to draw their own conclusions. This provided nothing except for maybe that iPads cause kids to murder their friends.

score 1/10

djkeon 29 December 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6420611/