The Forest

2016 "Everyone comes here looking for a way out"
4.8| 1h35m| R| en| More Info
Released: 08 January 2016 Released
Producted By: Phantom Four
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://theforestisreal.com/
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Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.

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luffedahl Was not able to finish this movie. It was extremely boring.
Michael Ledo This is a film that takes place in Japan's Suicide forest that doesn't involve bad dubbing or subtitles. (Points for that.) Sara (Natalie Dormer) gets a feeling something is wrong and her twin sister needs help. Sara flies 6,000 miles to Japan and discovers Jess (Natalie Dormer with black hair) has gone missing in Japan's suicide forest. She manages to get two guys to help her look for her. The film is rather ho-hum up to about 45 minutes into the film when they (plot spoiler!) find her tent. It isn't until this point does the film become worth watching. Then the night time creepy stuff happens as the forest, "plays with people's mind."Make it a rental.
The Movie Diorama You all know I love Japan, their culture and their mythology. A horror film set in the infamous Aokigahara Forest where troubled individuals contemplate their lives and commit suicide should've been more frightening than this. Is this seriously the best they could do? Sara flies to Japan now knowing that her twin sister Jess went into the depths of the cursed forest. She must control her own paranoia and disillusioned mind as she embarks through the 'Sea Of Trees' (bonus points if you see what I did there) to find her sister. Natalie Dormer gives two decent dual performances, the cinematography is splendid and the setting is one of the most fascinating environments in the world. That's all this film has going for it. I physically cannot call this a horror film, there is legitimately nothing scary about this. Heck, some of the trees are scarier than the actual jump scares...seriously, look at those ghastly branches! All the jump scares consist of loud noises or someone's face that turns into a horrible grey ghost face thing...all too repetitive, all too boring. Sara and the gang come across one victim to suicide, which is atleast handled with more care than Logan Paul's controversial video (see...I can be current too!). The second act sees them walk around for thirty minutes as Sara hears voices or sees ghostly apparitions. That's all well and good, but when the tour guide clearly commands "if you see anything unusual, it's not real it is just your mind" you would acknowledge that right? Nooo Sara is thinking she only lives once, lets follow the creepy Japanese school girl in the middle of a dense forest. Then there is some backstory about her parents killing themselves, a few predictable twists and turns in the third act to then only conclude in unsatisfactory fashion. Honestly though, my expectations were low considering this was a first week January release...and still those expectations weren't met. Yawnnn.
Ade Lina This movie has a little bad end . All the movie was about a girl, Jess, who seen death of her parents and she goes in a cursed forest on a trip in Japan and she lost there. Her sister,Sara, who hasn't seen death of her parents, comes in this cursed forest to save Jess . At end Jess is saved indirectly by Sara and Sara dead in that cursed forest . This movie has some jump-scares and without these, this movie wasn't scary.