YMMV / Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness

• Complete Monster:
  • Lord Shathrax is an Evil Sorcerer who covets the titular Book, seeking to recreate it with his own ends. Shathrax orders the Knights of the New Sun massacred while kidnapping the purest among them, the father of hero Grayson, and subjects him to constant torture to extract the "liquid pain" to use as ink for the Book. When Grayson finally makes it to him, Shathrax reveals Grayson was always his intended target, torturing him instead to complete the Book. Shathrax's final goal is to bring back the era of darkness the Book brought upon the kingdom of Karkoth centuries ago, to run the gutters red with the blood of all those he deems weak until all that is left is a kingdom of the strong and savage for him to rule over.
  • Bezz, the Vermin-Lord, matches his own master in evil, personally carrying out the slaughter of the Knights of the New Sun and more bloodshed besides. When Grayson integrates himself into Bezz's band—by being forced to kill one of its other members on Bezz's initiative—he and the others ingratiate themselves with a small town. When Bezz and the others try to make off with the town's treasure, Bezz deliberately forsakes a more peaceful solution to murder the town's leader while having everyone else in the town massacred to the last man. Having even loyal members of his own band killed afterwards, Bezz reveals to the last member Akordia, who's grown to love Grayson, that he only desires to see Karkorth plunged into darkness in accordance with his own Social Darwinist beliefs, taunting her that any punishment she could devise for Grayson will pale to the excruciation he and Shathrax put him through.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Bezz the vermin lord for being such a glorious unrepentant asshole.
• Narm: The slaymate's allergic reaction to love is kind of hilarious to watch. The one town's mayor getting blown up by Bezz is also rather humorous in a Ludicrous Gibs way.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The dragon disemboweling one of its victims. In addition, Bezz says it would take a dragon that size an hour to eat a human being. Just let that sink in.
  • The slaymate is unsettling itself, being a tiny skeletal zombie that acts like a scared toddler, but the eerie child's voice "translating" its guttural screaming adds a whole new level of intense creepiness.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Like Wrath of the Dragon God, it is generally considered a better movie than the first one, partly because of the interesting premise of a good character having to join an evil party.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The slaymate is some very impressive CGI for a made-for-cable movie.