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Black Forest is set in Germany where a strange man named Cazmar (Ben Cross) entices tourists of all nationalities to take his guided tour of the area including the so-called black forest where the Grimm fairy tales were written, Carzmar drives one such bus load of tourists to a hill with various large stones laid out there & they all decide to take part in some sort of ancient ritual. Before anyone know's what's going on an evil fairy creature thing had appeared & then disappeared along with a young baby belonging to a couple on the tour, Cazmar has also vanished & the stranded party soon realise that they have been transported to anther dimension where fairy tales are real but are much more evil than in any kid's story. The group find shelter at an old inn as they come under attack from dark forces that hide in the forest, can they survive, rescue the baby & find a way back to normal reality?

Directed by Patrick Dinhut this is maybe slightly more ambitious & original than the average SyFy Channel crap but ultimately Black Forest is still just as crap, all the usual problems & deficiencies are present & just because the makers had slightly loftier ambitious doesn't mean they are any less substandard. At just over eighty minutes Black Forest still felt like it went on for days as it dragged on, every character is utterly stupid & annoying while the whole concept is wasted. I mean a dark horror film set in a twisted fairy tale world could have been great as various character's meet their death in gruesome ways based on ideas from classic fairy tales but in the hands of the SyFy Channel it amounts to nothing as there's nothing clever here & the film is very bland & forgettable. To be honest I can't remember that much about it as the story is so weak but it has to do with an evil guy who can change into an old woman or a Wolf who lures unsuspecting tourists into this world to kill them & that's about it. Nothing of any note happens, it's all so poorly written & staged that you simply don't care about anyone or anything. The whole film is just lazy, cheap & boring with no flashes of inspiration or creepiness that it's origins could have provided. Black Forest is the sort of film that is hard to describe, it sounds good but is just a limp & disappointing waste of time.

Black Forest looks terrible considering it's meant to be a dark adult fairy tale horror film, it's far too bright & the main forest location looks like some recreation area complete with gentle paths. Even the fake Toadstools look poor. The other two main examples of this interesting genre are The Brother Grimm (2005) & The Company of Wolves (1984) which are both much darker & much better than Black Forest, the difference is actually quite amazing. As you would expect the CGI special effects are rotten, from someone turning into a Raven to a Wolf trying to smile to a huge Troll it all looks absolutely rubbish. There's no real blood or gore, there's a severed finger but not much else worth mentioning.

Probably shot on a low budget this is set in Germany but was obviously filmed in the US, the whole film looks cheap & what should have been a dark twisted fantasy world ends up looking like a local picnic spot. The acting is also terrible, the babysitter Amber was cute but since she's the first to die that's another reason to dislike Black Forest.

Black Forest completely lacks the dark atmosphere & visuals that should have present, it also lacks any sort of decent story which doesn't help. Look, Black Forest is total crap that is maybe a little bit more original than your average horror film but is still crap when all said & done.

I just saw this movie it was totally stupid and not worth watching at all . I thought the whole premise of the movie was laughable at best. A Bunch of people following some dude to stay at some place? Huh?? I should have turned it off then but NO i had to keep watching what happened..

Next we find out they are some enchanted forest or something where this house and this lady who watches over the inn or something watches over it and the "forest" protects her. huh again?? What? I kept watching..

There is more hooplah to the story and If you really think a bunch of random stories/fairy tells put together tickles your fancy i suppose this is the movie to watch for you but i thought all the "horror" was laughable at best. And the "silver axe" to escape haha what a joke.

This whole movie was a joke and whoever wrote this must been drinking at the time....

Save yourself about 2 hours of time and find something else to watch this one isn't worth it... That's all i gotta say..

-Veteran Sci-fi reviewer/watcher over and OUT (Seen Everything from Star Trek/Wars, BSG, Warehouse 13, Dr. Who, Out Limits, and much more)

I LOVE me some SYFY "scary" movies, but in this case "NR" or "Not Rated" means definitely NOT for children. For whatever reason, I couldn't access the tabs to edit the section. Violence and gore galore; some images may be too disturbing for young viewers who are tweens.

Use your parental discretion to decide: a baby is snatched from it's mother's arms by a once smiling fairy who swiftly tuns into a creature that sucker punches Mother to the ground. The parents are at a loss to find her as they hear her cries from another dimension. Later, as the group becomes part of fairy tales, the mother is stabbed in the heart with a spindle by a grandma looking woman. The "babysitter" and secret lover of the father gets sleepy when she enters a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs bedroom. NEVER fall asleep in a bedroom with seven tiny little beds: you'll wake up calling your boss/lover's name to be greeted and eated (yeah, I know it's spelled incorrectly but it rhymes) by seven "Little People"- men in prison style-striped shirts that are cannibals.

At about that point I was bored and disappointed. I'd read other user's reviews and was really looking forward to the use of color and other items mentioned. By the time I was 20 minutes into watching, I realized the only place this movie was going for me was...off. My first clue that I was wasting my time should have been an early line uttered by Dr. Saxon: "The only thing I knew about the Black Forest before today was cake." It was the "best" piece of dialog for the 20 minutes I watched.

I've seen a far few SyFy films and watched this one with quite a bit on fast forward. It was though quite good fun and had some interesting ideas with some good performances,e.g.Cazmar and The Doctor, and attempts at a decent storyline. The main let down were the effects and some of the performances that were poor and unconvincing. This is a shame as the story had real potential and the initial premise was very strong. It was good to have a movie set outside of America and that played with conventions so much more than normal. There was a good, scary, effective movie hiding away in this and it is a shame that it got buried! Worth watching, but only just.

This is a made for TV SyFy movie. A group of tourists are tricked into entering a realm filled with the characters from Grimm's fairy tales, with some slight modifications such as the seven dwarfs being cannibals. The film seems to be geared toward kids with some mild swearing. As they search for a missing infant, the stories take their toll.