Table 19

Sometimes, a wedding just isn't a happy ending.

Beware The Slenderman

An interesting surprise of a documentary, in that this look at the Slenderman assault in Wisconsin starts out as a look at memes and how they propagate and how this affected the two attempted murderers but then slowly shifts into a look at how mental illness was a factor. It's that second part that was much more interesting to me, as I was pretty much familiar with all the meme stuff (Creepy pasta, got it, Richard Dawkins, eh, memetics, so forth and so on). But the interviews with families of the girls involved in this get deeper and more complex as everyone tries to come to some sort of understanding of what happened (and jeeeez, did I feel for the parents of the accused).

2017 - Written and directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky