Review #69: The Forest (2016)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #17: The Forest The first thing I want to say is that this movie feels like it should be right up my alley. A movie about Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest? Sign me up! However, this movie makes some missteps (specifically, one misstep it makes over and over) that unfortunately keep it from being great. The Forest is about a girl who travels to Japan in search of her twin sister who lives there (?) and has recently gone missing. She finds out her sister went into Aokigahara, the spooky forest where people go to commit suicide, so our protagonist ignores all warnings and goes off anyway. Unfortunately for her, the spooky forest has some spooks and scares in store, and she just might have to come face-to-face with her haunting past in the process... The first thing that struck me about this film is how cavalier the main character is about all of the people's warnings; despite the fact that her sister has bee...