TEEN HORROR 37 • The Slenderman Case
True crime, horror films and horror culture collide in one episode.
The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast
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Show Notes
In this episode, we're doing something different, and tackling a real-life horror: the Slender Man, the Internet's first boogeyman, the real-life attempted murder it inspired, perpetrated by two girls and the media storm that followed. Writer and broadcaster Louis Blain joins us to discuss the real life case, the ill-advised horror film Slenderman (2018) and the true crime documentary Beware the Slenderman (2016) that followed.
Read Kathleen Hale's article on the case in Hazzlitt.
CW: we discuss the Slenderman stabbings in graphic detail
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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