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To cheer up their friend Joe (Ryan Kwanten), who has just been left by his girlfriend Beth (Margarita Levieva), Eric (Steve Zahn) and Hung (Peter Dinklage) take him to a big LARP (as in Live Action Role Playing) event - even though he really isn't into this kind of thing ... but he's quickly won over when he meets Gwen (Summer Glau), the girl warrior on their team. However, Ronnie (Jimmi Simpson), gamemaster of the event, harbours a personal dislike for Joe, so to introduce him into the game he has him initiated in some dark ritual - which to nobody's knowledge invokes succubus who, partly springing from Joe's mind, looks a lot like Beth. So of course, on the rather vast premises, the succubus starts killing people left and right, at first without anybody noticing, and eventually she runs across Hung and Lando (Danny Pudi), another team member, and takes them both out rather bloodily. When the others stumble upon the corpses, they swear revenge, and fortunately, Eric has just the gear - as in actual medieval weapons - in his van. They slow the succubus down a bit but don't kill her, so Eric reads from the old book of spells he has brought - and that chases her off. However, when Ronnie examines the book, he reveals it's an actual book of black magic written in the Enochian language, and the spell Eric has read doesn't send the succubus back to Hell but turns her into a giant monster. And that giant monster attacks all the LARPers during their big battle and leaves nary anyone alive. Our heroes arrive at the battle field when the fight's already dying down, but they try their best to send the creature back to Hell, but the book of spells catches fire. But fortunately, Joe is in a doom metal band, and one of his songs apparently is close enough to the spell to do the trick. Oh, and need I say it, Joe and Beth become a couple in the end.

Now at least on paper, crossing a slasher movie with a LARP comedy sounds like an inspired idea, as such a blend offers cool visuals and sight gags almost by definition, and the LARP backdrop offers an opportunity for narrative depth only rarely experienced in slasher cinema. But that said, Knights of Badassdom is just not a very good movie, basically because it's not very funny in the comedy department, and while it offers enough violence and gore, there's no real tension and suspense for this to work as a slasher, while the plot is pretty much as formulaic as can be. On top of that, very bland characters of course don't help to make this anything more than just mediocre.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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