The Forest (2016)

Too much of everything

Absolutely Fantastic

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

In all fairness it was an interesting movie, fair acting and a nice atmosphere although it lacks some scares.Also i could say there are few plotholes.Although i was disappointed at the end i kinda liked the twitst. Maybe killing them both would be more intriguing

So guys,get ready please to see a bunch of horror reviews,cause it's October! Yay! My favorite holiday,mostly because,my favorite genre,horror movies,mostly come out most on this year,so get ready because I will be reviewing the newest horror films,like Jigsaw,Happy Death Day,The Ritual and mother! and just,throwing in some old classics,I don't know how many I review,but when the 01st hits,it will be gone,so stay in touch,but for now,let's start with..The Forest. So,The Forest is a horror film that I always admired the idea of,I love the idea of a film setting in the famous Japanese suicide forest and I never actually got around to watching it so,while on Netflix,I watched it(as well as Poltergeist 2,stay in touch by the way as well for my reviews of the Poltergeist series). So,a girl goes in to these woods to look for her missing sister,that's pretty much it. The Forest,I really enjoyed,I didn't really have any problems with it,I found it very creepy and not something you'd slip away from with boredness. Natalie Dorman did a fantastic job as herself,and her other sister. I would call this film though more of a,say,Drama Thriller then a horror,there weren't much horror scenes in it,except for,ugh! The jump scares,all the time,but anyway,The Forest is a really good horror film,going down there as one of my favorites. Stay here guys for tomorrow's review though for Poltergeist,1,2 and 3,haven't got around to watching three,but I will watch it tomorrow,and then review it!!

THE FOREST is another horror/thriller dealing with the sinister setting of the Aokigahara Forest in Japan. The said forest nestles at the foot of Mount Fuji and is notorious in Japan for being a place where suicides go to die. It has previously been the subject of two films, GRAVE HALLOWEEN and SEA OF TREES.Sadly, in the hands of an inexperienced director, THE FOREST is very much a middling horror film. It's too tame and predictable to really scare all but the most novice of viewers. The plot is slow paced and the cast limited to just a few faces, so there's little going on. Some of the atmosphere isn't bad and the filmmakers do a good job of making the location seem authentic, although of course it wasn't really shot in the actual forest. Best of all is the reliable Natalie Dormer, who invests her lead with depth and charisma that might have been lacking in another actress.

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.