2016 brought some fantastic documentaries, and it’s the year most of us watched a very popular crime docu-series, Making A Murderer. While we all wait for the upcoming season 2, here are some other highly anticipated documentaries coming out this year.
‘David Lynch: The Art Life,’ Amazon Prime and select theaters March 2017
In what looks to be a true nod to the famous artist and filmmaker, director Jon Nguyen creates an intimate glimpse into Lynch as an artist and a man and what life experiences spurred his famously unusual imagination (Pictured above).
But remember, if David Lynch’s films have taught us anything, it’s not to expect answers, only clues.
‘Beware the Slenderman,’ HBO Jan. 23
While most kids and teens came out of the viral Internet horror myth of Slenderman, unscathed, Beware of the Slenderman, shows us yet another Internet danger lurking in the maybe not so deep depths of Internet absurdities.
In 2012 two 12 year old girls lured their friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. Miraculously the injured girl lived, and the two perpetrators named Slenderman as their reason for the crime.
Although the 2009 viral sensation of the paranormal Slenderman brought countless fanfiction and art to the Internet world, it also, unfortunately, brought to light the dangers of any viral obsession put into the wrong hands.
‘Tickled,’ HBO 2017
Journalist David Farrier dives deep into the world of adult competitive tickling after coming across one of their videos online. What at first started as a curiosity into the weird and unusual, quickly turns into an investigation of the murky underground tickling-video empire that no journalist could ever resist.
‘Mommy Dead & Dearest,’ HBO March 2017
In 2015 Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in her home of Springfield, MO and her beloved ailing wheelchair-bound daughter, Gypsy, was missing. Investigators followed a cryptic Facebook post status to find not only her beloved daughter Gypsy, but a harrowing tale of child abuse and mental illness.
Director Erin Lee Carr examines the psychological condition known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy as well as the captivating story of mother and daughter, Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Mommy Dead & Dearest is set to premiere exclusively for HBO. A trailer has yet to be released.
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