Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters (1982)

Danger lurks between fantasy and reality.

Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.

Date of release
1982-12-27
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (109)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Fantasy, Drama, TV Movie
Director
Steven Hilliard Stern

Casting

Interesting facts

Mazes and Monsters, also known as Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters, is a 1982 American made-for-television film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern about a group of college students and their interest in a fictitious role-playing game (RPG) of the same name. The film stars Tom Hanks in his first lead role.

Production

The film was adapted from Rona Jaffe's 1981 novel Mazes and Monsters.

Jaffe based the novel on inaccurate newspaper stories about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III from Michigan State University in 1979. Early media accounts overemphasized Egbert's participation in fantasy role playing, speculating that his hobby of Dungeons & Dragons might have been a factor in his disappearance.

Like the novel on which it is based, the film touches on the claim that playing role-playing games could be related to psychological problems. At least one protagonist is (or appears to be) suffering from schizophrenia (or some analogous condition).

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