Knights of Badassdom Horror Movie 2014

Knights of Badassdom

Synopsis: How to rate a movie that aims low and hits the mark? Should it be damned for its lack of ambition, or celebrated for what it is? In many cases, it comes down to goodwill. Are the movie’s modest goals a product of simple laziness, or amiable humility?

Knights Of Badassdom feels like the latter. The story of a group of LARPers (live-action role-playing, for the ComicCon-impaired) who face off against a real-life demon isn’t out to change the world, or even make much of a dent, but then neither are the people it’s about. Joe (Ryan Kwanten) seems pretty happy working at a garage, living in a room in the castle owned by his accidental-millionaire buddy Eric (Steve Zahn) and

jamming in a black-metal band—sorry, formerly black-metal, previously sludge, now doom-metal. So it’s a major bummer when his high-school girlfriend Beth (Margarita Levieva) decides she needs to date someone who knows where his life is headed. Fortunately, Eric and his stoner buddy Hung (Peter Dinklage) have just to thing to cheer him up: a weekend in the woods with a bunch of like-minded geeks dressed in homemade costumes and wielding foam weaponry.