Black Forest - Favole di sangue

A group of tourists take a 'mid-summers eve tour' to the Black Forest of Germany to experience the night of the year when the line between our reality and the spirit one is at it's thinnest. Once there they are seemingly transported to a mischievous parallel fairy-tale world in this original Syfy film.

What started off pretty well (term applied loosely as in 'pretty well for a Syfy original) soon became awash with mediocrity. The set up was interesting enough and the plot was intriguing, I liked the fractured fairy tale approach but somehow the film lost its footing as well as my interest.

My Grade: C-

If you like Scifi movies, then this is actually a fantastic movie to watch. For a free movie, with an attractive individual and a good story, what more do you really need. I suggest this movie to anyone who likes Grimmy type things. This is a movie that can either make you think, or that you can brainlessly watch. Beware though, there is some gore, but you know it is coming so it isn't shocky gore. If you are one of those people who get queasy or have their children watch movies with morals just be aware. If you can find this without commercials then it would be better as some of the commercial breaks are annoying. Overall a good movie to watch. Much better than some other Scfy movies.

So we settled in with our Chinese Delivery for SyFy Saturday its become a ritual of sorts sometimes it last less than 30 minutes as we lose interest and start channel surfing however this weekend was different they debuted two movies and of the two this was by far the best. We really enjoyed the movie it really tries to make the best of every cent of its miniscule budget with decent performances, interesting twists, and special FX which could of course have been better are not as bad as some. My partner is not much of a fan but he sat thru it all and I have to say I would watch it again since I missed some bits and pieces as I devoured my dinner and we talked about the storyline. Sadly the film that came after this one was so bad we both went about other activities. One other thing of note we enjoyed their use of flowers to add a fantasy like sense of color in contrast to the forest it was a nice touch considering the budget you can't have all these wonderful sets and cgi to enhance so it was great old style filmmaking making the best out of what you got and being inventive I can still see the colorful mushrooms growing in the forest.

Another SyFy bad movie. The idea is interesting, but the movie is terrible. At least, some scenes were so, so bad that made me laugh.

You watch and get lost into this mess of fairy tales. Bad script, bad acting, poor visual effects, happy ending...

Is it adult? Not so much.