NOT Mazes and Monsters for LARPers. (spoilers within)
I can see how people could make the comparison. It occurred to me myself when I was watching it. But this is NOTHING like Mazes and Monsters.
Mazes and Monsters is an unfair, prejudiced, over the top, uninformed bit of hysterical paranoia and shrill reactionary knee jerk propaganda.
The Wild Hunt is an intelligent, beautifully done, tense, emotional, sometimes funny, bit of cinematic wonder.
The Wild Hunt is about a LARPing event gone horribly horribly wrong, but as the film progresses we see that the film makers aren't saying "All LARPers are maniacs clinging to sanity by a thread." Actually the majority of the LARPers are good, decent people who like to have fun, I mean, honestly the film is practically an ad for LARPing. It shatters the notion of stupidly dressed dorks in a field hitting each other with wiffle ball bats wrapped up in pillows and makes it almost impossible to not want to get involved somehow.
The violence that happens isn't because LARPers can't tell the difference between real life and fantasy, it's because we live in a world with sick, sad people and they find their way everywhere. See the film "The 49th Parallel" or "The Village", the messages are the same, you can't hide from the evil of the world.
The villains in "Wild Hunt" are, first off, "under the influence" when the real bad badness occurs, and secondly, even though the whole gang of Murtagh's warriors take part in the initial fire and frenzy, the shocking act of violence against Eric brings the majority of them out of it.
The film treats LARPers with a respect that's impossible to beat, they show the community like aspects, and the pure fun of it, the descent into violence and cruelty isn't a reflection of the game, it's a reflection of humanity.
This is a one of kind, AMAZING film and wonderful experience. I had good movie buzz for hours afterwards.