 The film's impact might have stayed with mostly evangelical Christians, but for a series of LDS-related scandals in the 1980s and 1990s, which turned media attention toward Mormon criticisms.In January 1990, Decker claimed that the film had produced a three million person shortfall in projected converts to the church.This claim was based upon a statement made by M. Russell Ballard at BYU on November 14, 1989.