Picture it - the early 1980s - America is gripped by a Satanic Panic and the tabletop roleplaying game "Dungeons & Dragons" becomes one of many targets of a conservative nation's ire. "Mazes & Monsters" is a 1982 moral panic film that boasts being Tom Hanks's first starring role! Follow America's Dad as a baby college student who falls in with the wrong sort - gamers - and begins to LARP his way through a mental breakdown! Based on a book which itself was based on inaccurate news reports from the time, this film is a rollercoaster and a barrel of laughs not to be missed.
Join us before the film to see the drag deviants from Media Meltdown corrupt audience members live onstage with Satanic roleplaying shenanigans. Who knows, even you might role the devil's 20-side dice?
Picture it - the early 1980s - America is gripped by a Satanic Panic and the tabletop roleplaying game "Dungeons & Dragons" becomes one of many targets of a conservative nation's ire. "Mazes & Monsters" is a 1982 moral panic film that boasts being Tom Hanks's first starring role! Follow America's Dad as a baby college student who falls in with the wrong sort - gamers - and begins to LARP his way through a mental breakdown! Based on a book which itself was based on inaccurate news reports from the time, this film is a rollercoaster and a barrel of laughs not to be missed.
Join us before the film to see the drag deviants from Media Meltdown corrupt audience members live onstage with Satanic roleplaying shenanigans. Who knows, even you might role the devil's 20-side dice?
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