The Forest (2016)
Storyline
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.
Directors
Writers
Cast
Natalie Dormer, Eoin Macken, Čarni Đerić, Taylor Kinney, Masashi Fujimoto, Gen Seto, Yuriri Naka, Jozef Aoki, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, James Owen, Takako Akashi, Rina Takasaki, Noriko Sakura, Yûho Yamashita, Stephanie Vogt, Meg Kubota, Tatsujiro Oto, Nadja Mazalica, Terry Diab, Kikuo Ichikawa, Akiko Iwase, Osamu Tanpopo, Yasuo Tobishima, Ibuki Kaneda, Lidija Antonic, Nemanja Naumoski, Tales Yamamoto, Mieko Wertheim, Yoshio Hasegawa, Misaki Ishii, Shintaro Taketani
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Reviews
50
For the record, Gus Van Sant recently made "The Sea of Trees," set in the same infamous suicide forest, starring Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe. In its contrived sentimentality that film is twice as frightening as this one.
50
Zada gets credible performances from Dormer and Kinney, but their characters undergo such unlikely psychological contortions that these efforts are to no avail.
50
Much more concerned with the emotional ties between twin sisters — both played by Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer — than scaring the pants off audiences.
50
A decently executed creeper built around a convincing performance by Natalie Dormer.
50
First-time director Jason Zada does generate an intermittently spooky sense of mystery that not even the muddled scripting can fully demolish.
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