The Forest

2016 "Everyone comes here looking for a way out"
4.8| 1h35m| R| en
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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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Also starring Stephanie Vogt

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Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story
Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!
Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
luffedahl Was not able to finish this movie. It was extremely boring.
Gafri Ariansyah The Forest (2016) is a horror thriller film from the United States of America that was released on January 16, 2016 this film took the filming location in fuji mountain, Japan. Tells the story of a woman named sara who goes to japan to search for her lost twin in aokigahara forest (a haunted forest in japan where the suicide) will she manage to find her lost herd in the haunted forest? The forest is quite exciting at the beginning but this movie loses its charisma and finally this movie falls into a cheap horror movie with all the boring scare jump, the scene is quite tense when sara meet a girl in the cave and see it was yurei girl. This movie also has a bad ending .. Logic why sara not run out of the forest, keep running and keep running and in the end he became a victim by his own folly Watch this movie and watch the strangeness and crispness of the film
Zac Beatty This is literally the first movie that I almost left the theater! The horrible acting, crappy/poorly animated jump scares, and the horrendous writing makes up this movie.Focusing more on the jump scares, they were really bad. There is literally a "Jump scare" of the main character walking down the hall of a hotel when suddenly the camera quickly zooms in on an old ladies badly CGI'd face (don't tell me why it was CGI'd the next cut it shows the old lady in real life) with a loud bang sound. It reminded me of the poorly made horror apps in the app store that try to scare people. There were other horrible jump scares including a random zombie person running at the camera?(Doesn't explain who it is or what it is).(SPOILERS) The story wasn't that bad, it's the execution that ruined that. Natalie Dormer had little to no emotion in this, she screamed a few times but that's about it. They talk about her twin sister a lot, who any logical person could tell, killed herself in the forest, but because of this really badly explained 'Kinetic Force' that connected them, Natalie's character went in. Rob made barely any sense, he was somehow the bad guy even though he had no motivations nor ways of being a bad guy and good guy, it only made sense if he was one, not both. Then maybe she was tripping and it wasn't him, I really don't know. Lastly, the end was an animated zombie running at the camera. WHAT THE FREAKING HECK? When the heck did zombies get thrown in this (Would have been a better movie if zombies were put into this earlier) It really made no sense at all. I mockingly acted scared when it happened because of how stupid it was, people in the audience were laughing and cringing after this end.All in all, this movie barely gets 2/10, the scenery is nice because it's Japan, it's hard to mess that up. There was a scary visual one time in a cave, but that's about it. Don't see this movie unless you want to waste your time!
Syo Kennex The Forest was one of the most talked about movies of 2016, due to a large amount of criticism of white washing. Before I start my review, I want to say that, I am a white male. I have Japanese friends. I asked them about this movie before I watched it and they said that the Japanese culture was respected well, and there was no need for a whitewashing call on this movie. This wasn't as good as I was expecting. The way it was hyped up throughout 2016 in reviews and talk of those who had seen the movie, I was expecting a solid 10/10 from opening credits to end credits. It wasn't that great. At all.First of all, don't get me wrong. I found it quite enjoyable to watch. I was creeped out quite a bit. Some of it really had me on edge. Some of it made me cackle at how bad it was. Let's be real – the tunnel creatures? The CGI on those was horrendous and I didn't even feel bad laughing as Sarah ran in terror. There are a lot of interesting theories surrounding this, and a lot of them make sense, but at the end of the day, without the knowledge of the different theories, the film doesn't make a lot of sense, especially at the end. I wasn't keen, I got very confused through a lot of it, and there could have been a LOT MORE done to ensure that it wasn't confusing. Things could have been cut out, other things could have been done better and it would have made the film a lot easier to follow.The ending? I'm sick of the last few seconds of cliché of a character jumping at the screen. That's one thing this movie did really, really badly – it overused horror clichés to the point of it just being embarrassing.All in all though, it was quite scary, it had me on edge, and I found it to be quite unnerving, when it wasn't being embarrassing.