This article comes fromDen of Geek UK.
Before all this though, there was the moral panic surroundingDungeons & Dragons.
Long before the advent of online gaming,Dungeons & Dragonswas laying the groundwork for the MMORPG.
AsD&Ds popularity swept America, its following among teenagers provoked an accompanying ripple of moral panic.
When Jay Jay invites Robbie to join hisMazes and Monstersgroup, Robbie reluctantly agrees.
Naturally, Ill be the maze controller.
Viewed today,Mazes and Monsterslooks like something from a parallel dimension.
What about his blessing people all the time and giving his stuff away and acting so holy?
), and the entire production budget appears to have been spent on the construction of some fibreglass caves.
Then the opening credits roll over an incongruously sappy ballad about friendship.
The makers ofMazes and Monsterscaught Hanks just as he was on the cusp of big screen success.
Funnily enough, its none other than Kevin Peter Hall in the monster suit.
Hed go on to play a far more menacing creature in the 1987 classic,Predator.
Ill be happy as a future captain of industry in future software!)
while Robbies left behind at his mothers house, lost in a non-existent realm of mazes and monsters.
Hunt around onAmazon Prime, and youll currently find the film buried among its listings.
Its a Rasputin-like reminder of the small role a young Hanks played in a very odd moral panic.
