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The Forest

2016

Jason Zada

Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Eoin Macken ...

3.9

5,413

Horror. Thriller The movie is set in a forest called Aokigahara, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives, where a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister who has mysteriously disappeared — only to be confronted by the angry souls of the dead who have perished in the forest.

	Author	Review
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Japan's loony suicide culture seems like an adequately scary backdrop for a horror movie, but the routine horror flick "The Forest" mostly settles for cheap thrills (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"The movie gets completely lost, unsure if it wants to be a serious exploration of repressed memories or a work of giddy, spooky trash (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Jason Zada does generate an intermittently spooky sense of mystery that not even the muddled scripting can fully demolish"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The only thing good to say for 'The Forest' is that Dormer is interesting (...) and that it would be nice to see her in a better movie"	NEG
United States	Bill Zwecker Chicago Sun-Times	"With a nice, unexpected twist at the end, The Forest delivers as a healthy dose of psychological cinematic terror and an impressive first feature directing effort (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"Zada demonstrates a fluid visual style (...) The horror flourishes are largely by the book, however, drawing little inspiration from Japanese sources or demonstrating much inventiveness"	NEG
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"['The Forest'] is much more concerned with the emotional ties between twin sisters than scaring the pants off audiences. It works on one level but leaves so much on the sideline (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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