This wasn't a film I knew anything about – my viewing partner picked it out. I hadn't heard anything about this case of two young girls attempting to murder their friend by stabbing her to death because of their belief in an Internet meme called Slenderman (pictured in the film cover).
I found this troubling to watch, and there were many points at which I wanted to turn it off. Watching the interview tapes carried out by the law enforcement officers got me imagining having to interview these two kids myself, and all I could think of was how I wouldn't be able to let something slip out along the lines of, "Wow, kid. You're pretty fucked up."
The dad's blaming it all on the iPad made me wonder too. It's another case of technology and the Internet being blamed for another human atrocity. There's nothing wrong with these technological advances we're making, but there may well be something inherently wrong with us as a species.
I just wonder about this world we live in sometimes. 7/10
