the trailer shows the film proves what happends when a fan winds up losing being able to tell the differance between the fiction which is the game and reality with nasty results. intense

I dunno... I thought the first minute or so where it looks like it's going to be a comedy about LARPers looks very promising. Shades of "The Gamers" or "Dorkness Rising".

And then it gets into the part where they suggest that the only women who go to LARPs or Renn Faires go there to play the role of captives and/or prostitutes and they take fake money to sleep with men for real... and then the whole suggestion of sexual assault... and that kills the comedic mood.

And then I think about how most people already think ALL role-players are like this... and I think about how this movie could be the biggest blow to the Roleplaying hobby since the dark days in the 80s when Tom Hanks was showing us that getting into D&D was a surefire path to madness, suicide and eternal virginity.

The percntage of good looking LARPers in this film is WAY TOO HIGH to make it believable!

A movie about a LARP? That's so post-modern. Well, post-post-post-modern. It's French, so I guess it's just avant-garde?

This movie looks way better than it should.

I agree with dchopkins - this looks good, even though I know there is a high chance of awfulness...But it will be definitely be on my Netflix queue (I can't imagine spending movie theater money on it)

The tough part is that the role players and LARPers will probably be offended by a movie making the logical jump that they're all just one hot babe away from stepping off the deep end, while the non LARPERs will probably be turned off by "sweet emotional core about LARPing" that I am sure the movie will have. A straight up awesome comedy about LARPers would have rocked.

I am hoping that at some point Tom Hanks shows up and goes totally crazy...

Ignoring the potential 'Gamers are bordelrine insane' message, this trailer does look really really good.

This looks surprisingly great.

Battle of Gettysburg.

When civil war reenactment go crazy and take it too far.

Wow I'm pretty blown away by this. This will be in my instant queue the second it's released.

So where can I join a LARP community where beautiful woman dance on tables for my enjoyment?

If this is even slightly commercially successful (actually, even if it's not) expect it to be used as evidence by the Jack Chicks and Westboro Baptists of the world of the evils of roleplaying games.

If it were possible to insulate it from that fallout, I'd actually be interested in seeing this, because it does look like a pretty good concept for a thriller.

It's like... Pennsic gone very, very wrong.

Movie looks interesting. Makes LARP look cooler than it could ever actually be though (No, I am not saying rape is cool, just the way the game looks in all its other parts.) There's not a single actor that I saw that looks even remotely like people who are actually into this stuff. I think, though that getting into an uproar about what this will mean for the LARP community is not necessary. This kind of film will have a minimal impact of any kind on the non-nerd community.

I hope LARPers will take this in stride. It's not like you see the government throw a huge hissyfit everytime a movie accuses it of having some massive conspiracy. Let's all enjoy the ride but leave reality in the corner until the credits roll.

Franchi is canadian, is all canadian stuff. also, where i can find it on the net ?

I saw this movie at TIFF this past year actually. It basically plays out exactly as the trailer shows: starts off with the potential to be quite hilarious but quickly turns into a pretty terrible dramatic thriller. It was completely ruined for me.

Franchi just doesn't know what he wants from this movie, and never ends up making a coherent decision. It was one of the most frustrating films I've seen in a long time because I couldn't help but feel that this could have been Canada's answer to "Shaun of the Dead" (or rather, something within that lightly darkened comedy realm). Instead we get a mix of half a dozen genres, none of which play a prominent enough role to settle the movie down.

Sorry, but I recommend a "skip".

Cool! Mazes and Monsters 2!
I'd pay real coins for this if Tom Hanks did a cameo.

Looks like a typical amtgard rally.

That looked really disturbing, and I don't want to watch it.

So is this supposed to be a dark comedy or a comedy that morphs into a straight-up horror/thriller? Much like watching LARPING at cons this has left me confused and strangely aroused(I'm talking about my interest).

HOLY SHIT.

oh wow. yet another film that
(a) presents anyone interested in activities other than football or Gossip Girl as grotesquely socially inept;
(b) uses sexual assault as some kind of "edgy" plot mover, without ever bothering to actually shed any light on the subject;
(c) presents women as either objectified eye candy or victims (as the result of being objectified eye candy); and
(d) bases most of the film on a man having to save a woman.

SNORE.

yeah, no effing way they're getting my money.

also, a clue to all those people commenting about how there aren't any "hot" women in LARPing where you're at:

#1) you just watched a trailer where a woman presumably gets gang raped and your first response is "how come we don't get hot women like that?"

???????

did you go to the Patrick Bateman School of Gender Relations?

#2) in many of these events the only designated roles for women are along the lines of wenches, dancers, servants and prostitutes.

...yeah, and you wonder why more women don't join these things.

head meet desk.

TVA films, this is From Quebec. Intresting, and not surprising, in a way.

Ditto on film looks

Those worried about how the film will shape views, have no worries - An english film in Quebec? won't go far.

So basically, the Mazes and Monsters of 2010?

I am a female larper. In England we have attractive people, male and female. The ratio is about 60/40 in the system I play in. There's no "designated roles" for males and females, nor have I ever heard of a system where there is. Personally, I'm in it for the roleplay, and running around hitting things, in roughly that order . I don't know how different it is in the US. Judging by your comments, most of you have never larped, but if anyone has and wants to tell me how it's different, I'd love to hear it.

It seems like a fairly interesting premise for a thriller. I think most people will have the good sense not to take it too seriously, but I'm an eternal optimist.