I Turned It Off: Black Forest

Because I am the most diligent of movie bloggers, I subject myself to a wealth of movies that literally no other human on Earth would (or should) subject themselves to.

This past weekend I actually found myself in a most unusual situation: I started two movies that were so bad I turned them off before finishing them.
And I sat through Room 237!

When I can't make it through a movie, you know it's bad.
Really, really bad.

I'd love to write a warning about each so that you, my devoted readers, don't accidentally waste your time on them but they were so bad that I can only remember one of them.

Well, part of a warning is better than no warning, right? Man oh man is that bad horror film logic!

Black Forest

The $.25 Version: Made for / by the SyFy Channel, which I didn't know before I tried to watch it. You've got to have some trepidation about a movie that is genre classified as mystery & suspense, horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. Talk about not knowing what you want to be.

I've read the plot description and I made it through 25 minutes of the movie and I still can't tell you what the hell it's about. I think there is something about witches or aliens or Paganism or cults or maybe all of those things. And the plot was structured something like Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, or maybe Hostel where you have some unsuspecting group of people going somewhere and something bad happens to them.

...oh. That could be pretty much any horror movie.
Right.

You can watch a clip of this oh so amazing movie here:

Wait, someone liked this movie?!

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