Wilson wisely keeps the focus on the teens, letting the Sturm und Drang remain largely in the ether around them, a gnawing thing that begins to force the young couple – and their tight little world – apart. Rumor, innuendo and the lies of teens coming home late eventually lead to suspicion, then violence, then death, then corporatization and commercialism and finally into a bit of urban mythology known as the Coalfield Panic. As with all provocative art, a segment of society begins to assume it is the work of Satan.
Soon enough, copycats are making their own posters replete with the phrase. They begin to anonymously place posters throughout their community, starting slow, and then as with any obsession, filling all their waking time on the project.
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