Tom Hanks' character basically develops schizophrenia and starts to identify as his character, though it's not a slasher or anything - the only person he hurts is in self defense. It's a surprisingly empathetic film, with a detective character admonishing the rest of the cast for playing role playing games, but then they all go on to be well adjusted adults except for the one player who tragically has a mental illness, and the climax of the film is them talking him down from committing suicide.
So I read up on it. Apparently the film is loosely based on a true story. There was a kid who was a big DND nerd in college who went missing and the PI his parents hired to find him thought he was trying to organize a LARP for his friends in a cave and got lost.
Turned out really the kid was just unhappy with his life and decided to try and start a new working on some oil field in Wyoming or something. The PI eventually found him but the kid really didn’t want to have contact with his family anymore and the PI decided to respect that and told his family he didn’t know where he was. The kid ended up committing suicide later thought.
Tom Hanks' character basically develops schizophrenia and starts to identify as his character, though it's not a slasher or anything - the only person he hurts is in self defense. It's a surprisingly empathetic film, with a detective character admonishing the rest of the cast for playing role playing games, but then they all go on to be well adjusted adults except for the one player who tragically has a mental illness, and the climax of the film is them talking him down from committing suicide.
So I read up on it. Apparently the film is loosely based on a true story. There was a kid who was a big DND nerd in college who went missing and the PI his parents hired to find him thought he was trying to organize a LARP for his friends in a cave and got lost.
Turned out really the kid was just unhappy with his life and decided to try and start a new working on some oil field in Wyoming or something. The PI eventually found him but the kid really didn’t want to have contact with his family anymore and the PI decided to respect that and told his family he didn’t know where he was. The kid ended up committing suicide later thought.
Sad story.