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.
Age
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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