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The Forest

2016, horror, mystery, suspense

95 minutes

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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4.5

based on 15 critics

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15+

Country

United States

Language

English

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5.2

Jeremy Lebens of The Daily Rotation

2016-01-10

A cool concept on yet another scare-less horror flick that holds back when it should be moving forward.

5.0

2016-01-10

What makes The Forest especially generic outside of the locale is that it follows all of the usual tropes. Read more

4.2

Derrick Carter of Are You Not Entertained?

2016-05-23

The mostly lame script deserves props for not taking a cheap jump scare approach to the material.

4.0

2016-02-16

Using a location synonymous with real life suffering for a horror movie is the height of bad taste. Hollywood seems to think tragedy is fine once it doesn't effect Americans. Try pitching a horror movie featuring the ghosts of those who died in the Twin Towers or Hurricane Katrina and see how far it gets you. Read more

3.5

2016-02-27

Just a pretty cliched horror film full of jump scares. Read more

3.3

David Whitley of DoubleFeaturePreachers

2016-03-02

A film that takes an ambitious subject, Japan’s Suicide Forest, and utterly fails with it by universally subscribing to modern horror movie hijinks.

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