Oh and the trailer was SO promising....
Well here we go, a little hiatus from the blog and I'm back to watching "horror"... The Forest however is not one that is going to make me lose any sleep, although it did manage to make me waste an hour and a bit...
I thought that this was one of those remakes of an Asian movie where they just use the same location and actors but crowbar a few American actors in, ie: The Ring, The Grudge etc - so I was quite surprised to find out that this was an original piece.
Sarah (played by Natalie Dormer aka "that one out of Game Of Thrones") has lost her sister Jess (also played by Dormer, 'cos they is twins) after she travelled to Japan and has gone in to the Aokigahara forest, famous for people going there to top themselves.
Worried that this might be the case that suicide is on the cards Sarah travels to Japan and goes off in search of her sister, despite being warned by everyone not to go alone/off the path/etc and because as in all films no one has a f**king mobile phone. Instead she relies on her "special twin sixth sense" which is about as much use as asking the cat to do the washing up.
The forest is filled with spooky ghosts and stuff and apparently will make your senses imagine things that would make you drive yourself to death...which is pretty good as the forest does as advertised and will actually help you along the way.
Anyway, she bumps into this other American bloke, and they go off in search of the missing sister and spooky stuff happens but it's not that spooky and then a massive pile of "well I saw that coming about an hour ago" happens and then it's the end.
And unlike Game Of Thrones she keeps her kit on throughout whole film. A few predictable jump-scares but beyond that, meh.
4/10 Masks
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