By normal standards it is barely passable, by Syfy Channel standards this is a masterpiece. It may be another monster movie but this time it isn’t just a lumbering giant creature intent on killing everything, instead Black Forest is a mishmash of folklore and fairy tales as a group of tourists get trapped in a world of myth and magic.

The cast are reasonably competent with Ben Cross, as a wolf in man’s clothing, hamming it up brilliantly and even the special effects are sort of okay, if you squint. But it is the script which really separates this from the usual Syfy fare. Sure, the characters are still monumentally stupid when the story dictates, and the dialogue is clunky…

By normal standards it is barely passable, by Syfy Channel standards this is a masterpiece. It may be another monster movie but this time it isn’t just a lumbering giant creature intent on killing everything, instead Black Forest is a mishmash of folklore and fairy tales as a group of tourists get trapped in a world of myth and magic.

The cast are reasonably competent with Ben Cross, as a wolf in man’s clothing, hamming it up brilliantly and even the special effects are sort of okay, if you squint. But it is the script which really separates this from the usual Syfy fare. Sure, the characters are still monumentally stupid when the story dictates, and the dialogue is clunky…