Director: Jason Zada
Writers: Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell | 1 more credit »
Stars: Natalie Dormer, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt
Story line
A woman goes into Japan's Suicide Forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror.
hmm..just saw the movie and am not sure what to think of it. It's got its moments where the creepiness and gloom of the forest actually come across; the producers were intelligent enough to focus on the mental aspect of its horror in the main, rather than on gross shock effects which occur *relatively* scarce in the movie. But somehow the movie leaves you emotionally uninvolved; you don't feel the despair and lostness of the dead souls which roam the forest. The problem may be the score; the sounds within the forest, which admittedly are pretty eerie, are very subtle and almost inaudible. Which of course is apppropriate, but in some scenes the suspense and overall impact would have immensely been increased by an additional dark ambient score, or at least single drone sounds. The forest somehow comes across too real, and a different soundtrack may have worked wonders here. By and large, it remains to be shallow and doesn't really catch the vibe. One is leaving the cinema with a feeling of having watched just another horror movie. Its subject matter and some utterly terrifying scenes though make the flick worth watching. I'd rate it 6 out of 10.
The Forest Reviews
hmm..just saw the movie and am not sure what to think of it. It's got its moments where the creepiness and gloom of the forest actually come across; the producers were intelligent enough to focus on the mental aspect of its horror in the main, rather than on gross shock effects which occur *relatively* scarce in the movie. But somehow the movie leaves you emotionally uninvolved; you don't feel the despair and lostness of the dead souls which roam the forest. The problem may be the score; the sounds within the forest, which admittedly are pretty eerie, are very subtle and almost inaudible. Which of course is apppropriate, but in some scenes the suspense and overall impact would have immensely been increased by an additional dark ambient score, or at least single drone sounds. The forest somehow comes across too real, and a different soundtrack may have worked wonders here. By and large, it remains to be shallow and doesn't really catch the vibe. One is leaving the cinema with a feeling of having watched just another horror movie. Its subject matter and some utterly terrifying scenes though make the flick worth watching. I'd rate it 6 out of 10.
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