Knights of Badassdom (2013)

Release date: 2014-08-18
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Joe Lynch
Production Co: IndieVest Pictures, North by Northwest Entertainment
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Rating: 5.6/10
Length: 1h 26min

Storyline

In a valiant but pointless attempt to cheer up their freshly-dumped friend and former Dungeons and Dragons legend, Joe, two enthusiastic Live Action Role Players--Eric, a 27-level Grand Sorcerer in the making, and Hung, a medieval Master Rogue--drag their sad companion to a large-scale LARP campaign in the middle of a forest. However, things will soon spin out of control, as a malevolently cryptic dark incantation from the pages of a seemingly innocent prop book of spells, inadvertently summons a demonic succubus bent on destruction. Now, try to stop a slaughterous extra-dimensional being with several foam sticks and a handful of plastic swords.

Plot Keywords

demon, lifted by the throat, lesbian kiss, pentagram, sword, magic mushroom, slow motion scene, paintball, death of friend, cousin cousin relationship, eaten alive, ritual, what happened to epilogue, shot through the mouth, hit by a truck, crossbow, stabbed in the head, massacre, severed head, decapitation

Short Review

This movie about Live Action Role Players (or LARPers) -- men and women who act out Dungeons and Dragons in real settings, in costumes -- is so haphazard it might have been thought up during a game of Mad Libs.