Natalie Dormer sets out to find her twin sister in ‘The Forest’
The Forest is set in Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, an area infamous for the number of local citizens who go there to commit suicide, and those offended by the idea of a Western horror movie exploiting a real-life site of tragedy certainly have a point. After all, American viewers probably wouldn’t appreciate a Japanese production traveling to Ground Zero to make a 9/11-themed ghost story.
The accusations of cultural tone-deafness wind up being fairly moot, since The Forest turns out to be so generally inept and non-scary that to boycott it would give the film more attention than it deserves. It’s the kind of bland thriller that somehow bypassed a debut on DVD or video-on-demand and instead became a January-release horror movie that no one will remember by Valentine’s Day.
Sara talks Australian travel journalist Aiden (Taylor Kinney, Chicago Fire) into letting her tag along with him and ranger Michi (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) on an off-path expedition, and Michi warns her that the forest finds your sadness and makes you see things that aren’t there. They stumble upon Jess’ tent, and Sara insists on staying there overnight, but what’s supposed to be creepy and unsettling instead turns out to be a series of dull jump-scares and muddled storytelling.
The Forest is set in Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, an area infamous for the number of local citizens who go there to commit suicide, and those offended by the idea of a Western horror movie exploiting a real-life site of tragedy certainly have a point. After all, American viewers probably wouldn’t appreciate a Japanese production traveling to Ground Zero to make a 9/11-themed ghost story.
The accusations of cultural tone-deafness wind up being fairly moot, since The Forest turns out to be so generally inept and non-scary that to boycott it would give the film more attention than it deserves. It’s the kind of bland thriller that somehow bypassed a debut on DVD or video-on-demand and instead became a January-release horror movie that no one will remember by Valentine’s Day.
Sara talks Australian travel journalist Aiden (Taylor Kinney, Chicago Fire) into letting her tag along with him and ranger Michi (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) on an off-path expedition, and Michi warns her that the forest finds your sadness and makes you see things that aren’t there. They stumble upon Jess’ tent, and Sara insists on staying there overnight, but what’s supposed to be creepy and unsettling instead turns out to be a series of dull jump-scares and muddled storytelling.
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