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The Forest
Directed by
Jason Zada
R
2016
1h 35m
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4.8
10%
22%
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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.
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Cast of The Forest
Natalie Dormer
Sara / Jess Price
Eoin Macken
Rob
Stephanie Vogt
Valerie
Osamu Tanpopo
Homeless Man
Yasuo Tobishima
Sushi Chef
Ibuki Kaneda
Mei (Schoolgirl)
Akiko Iwase
Head Teacher
Kikuo Ichikawa
Businessman
Noriko Sakura
Mayumi
Jozef Aoki
Visitor Center Morgue Man
Yûho Yamashita
Sakura
Taylor Kinney
Aiden
Gen Seto
Narusawa Bartender
Terry Diab
Grandma
Nadja Mazalica
Sara / Jess (Age 6)
Lidija Antonić
Mother of Sara / Jess
Takako Akashi
Ubasute Old Woman #1
Yuriri Naka
Narusawa Young Woman
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Michi
Nemanja Naumoski
Pillowcase Man
Tales Yamamoto
Blue Tent Man
Meg Kubota
Ubasute Old Woman #2
Mieko Wertheim
Ubasute Old Woman #3
Rina Takasaki
Hoshiko
Čarni Đerić
Father of Sara / Jess
Yoshio Hasegawa
Aokigahara Police Sergeant
Masashi Fujimoto
Yurei (uncredited)
Tatsujiro Oto
Yurei (uncredited)
James Owen
Peter (uncredited)
Shintaro Taketani
Yurei (uncredited)
Misaki Ishii
Airport Girl 2 (uncredited)
The Forest Ratings & Reviews
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
Pretty bad, even for a January release.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker
"The Forest" delivers as a healthy dose of psychological cinematic terror and an impressive first feature directing effort.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Not a total misfire, but this first feature from Jason Zada fails to capitalize on its fine setup, its competent cast, and its exquisite location.
Entertainment Weekly
Christian Holub
Ambiguity is good in a horror movie, but with this many plot elements elbowing each other for room, none of them achieve enough clarity to be properly terrifying.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
Disturbingly manipulative and yet totally conventional, The Forest is more memorable for being opportunistic than for being truly frightening.
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
The snap of a twig, the rustle of a branch - that's about as scary as it gets in The Forest, a supernatural horror movie afraid of its own shadow.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The film feels more like an expertly crafted missed opportunity, a suspense opus filled with some solidly intriguing ideas that for some reason it refuses to investigate.
The Playlist
Nick Schager
Potential is buried so deeply within "The Forest" that is registers as mere ghostly whispers of a film far better than this ghoulishly graceless one.
The Atlantic
Lenika Cruz
With no compelling characters, scares, or plot points to redeem The Forest, the best option for those curious about Aokigahara is probably to watch a 20-minute 2005 VICE documentary about it.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Any compelling sense of unease is ultimately undone as the film gradually settles for tedious schlock.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
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.
RogerEbert.com
Mark Dujsik
Whatever difference Zada's relatively minimalist approach to scenes might make, it does not outweigh the overarching feeling that the movie falls into a predictable, repetitive routine.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The only thing good to say for "The Forest" is that Dormer is interesting, that she creates a different vibe and essence for each sister, and that it would be nice to see her in a better movie.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
By the time the credits roll, nothing makes much sense, which is typical for this sort of horror-movie potboiler - the film's trio of screenwriters apparently couldn't find a decent ending between them.
Slate
David Ehrlich
The indiscriminate apathy with which it was made sheds off the screen like a contagion.
Village Voice
Michael Nordine
These woods are intrinsically terrifying. In filtering those unique qualities through an overly familiar genre sensibility, the filmmakers have rendered them anything but.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Zada can't manage to build tension or sustain a consistent air of dread.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
The supernatural thriller "The Forest" begins with an intriguing premise and fun, ghost story-type potential but quickly devolves into convoluted hokum that produces more laughs than scares.
AV Club
Jesse Hassenger
The movie seems to be conceived as a slow burn, but it's more like a faucet dripping lukewarm water.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The so-called suicide forest's cultural value is trivialized in the bum-rush to liberate the main characters from their agonies.
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