David Farrier

That's what's caused his violence.

That happens.

The satanic panic is kind of building up around D&D.

Dungeons and Dragons is kind of scary.

Then Tom Hanks enters the scene.

makes this movie, which got good reviews at the time.

The trailer's pretty amazing to watch.

Mazes and Monsters.

Mazes and Monsters, which is just riffing further on the idea of this group of people playing a very Dungeons and Dragons-like game.

Guy has a psychotic break, goes crazy.

And by then, the rumors are going through churches, they're going over Christian radio, and then suddenly parents are going, oh yeah, this game is evil, we better not let our kids play it.

And obviously not just in Christian circles, because he was doing this at a Jewish synagogue, and he also had parents approaching him being like, mm-mm-mm.

It was, I guess, the idea of entertainment for kids...

Well, I mean, before then, I guess, people were playing, like, cards and stuff.

I guess Dungeons & Dragons... There was still film and movies.

No, completely.

Yeah, no, it's just... Why...

it is it is a wild thing to think that but this is a fantasy movie like yeah you didn't go see the never-ending story and think atreyu is somewhere no but it was that i guess it was that idea that in the 80s i'm going to take myself back to that mindset where satan was like this evil entity that was trying to infiltrate through like the evil media which was becoming big and so that's why

I remember as well, I went to a Christian school and in our music class, we watched this documentary called Heaven's Gates and Hell's Flames.

And it was all about basically how Satan is trying to get to you through secular music.