The Forest 2016 123movies

Watch: The Forest 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – The majority of the story is set in and around the Aokigahara Forest, a forest at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan known as a popular destination for suicide. Sara Price (Natalie Dormer), an American woman, receives a phone call from the Japanese police telling her that they think her troubled twin sister Jess Price (also Dormer) is dead, as she was seen going into Aokigahara forest. Despite the concerns of her fiance, Rob, she journeys to Japan and arrives at the hotel where her sister was staying. At her hotel, Sara meets a reporter named Aiden. They drink together, and she tells him of her parents’ death. In reality, her father killed her mother, then committed suicide, but she tells him they were killed by a drunk driver. Her sister saw the bodies, but she didn’t look. Aiden invites her to go into the forest with him and a park guide, Michi, so she can look for her sister…
Plot: 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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	4.8/10 Votes: 43,284
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	34/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1554 Popularity: 18.578 | TMDB

Reviews:

I would rather peel a raw onion and squeeze the juices into my eyes than watch recent horror movies coming out of Hollywood at the moment. WHY DO YOU STILL HAVE NO IMAGINATION AND JUST RELY ON CHEAP SHITTY JUMP SCENES WITH WANK PLOTS?!

Okay. GRR.

Random lady gets a casual phone call advising her sister has gone into the suicide forest and it’s been 48 hours so she’s presumed as a suicide and they’re not going to look for her. Absolutely fuck all background into any character at this point so I don’t know them from Adam.
The twin sister goes out to find her sister in Japan and instead of heading right to the mission, goes for some sushi and is that arsed about her quest is more bothered that the fish she’s been given is raw. Fuck off. In her dreams she sees a ghoul child in her tent which is cheap jump #1 and to me, fuck all relevance to the audience as we still have no background which to me, is vital when you want someone to be truly on the edge wondering what’s happening.

Obviously the main as a blonde, her twin who’s gone to apparently kill herself is dark haired and gothic looking as we clearly don’t want to be too stereotypical do we. Flashbacks contain her sister giving her a vase and saying “Grandpa’s in there” so blondie opens it, revealing he is not and laughs heartily. What a laugh. She finally starts having a deek for her sister at a local place (no idea what it was as I had sort of switched off by this point) and the woman indicates her sister is downstairs. Blondie walks down to the basement of corpses and in true fashion to what we see so far is more offended by the smell than the fact her sister could be one of the rotting deceased found in the forest. Surprised she’s not taking a fucking selfie at this point.

She meets a guy in a bar and after telling him her life story ignites a “cheers” over a beverage, cheers to what love? The fact your twin is probably hanging off a tree? He ends up taking her into the forest with an experienced ranger, after a painful journey (for me not them) they find sisters tent and she wants to stay, fair enough. She’s happy to find the tent…. alarm bells. An empty tent in the suicide forest, are you thick?
When she sees her first shit ghoul, she tells the guy who she was warned off (cassanova from the bar) in a dead dramatic way, “I saw this girl last night…” as she clicked cassanova was who she was warned off the best she could come up with when he said “what did she say?” was “she said something in japanese.” Seriously. SERIOUSLY. You could have made up something like, she wanted to knife me and fuck the remains.

The rest of the movie is probably too pitch black to see anything as they’ve gone for the angle of it’s really dark so lets just have random people who look like Chucky pop up occasionally.

Ending makes no sense, the plot is incredibly weak and I am angered yet again by the sheer shit that’s being released onto cinema at the moment.
Aokigahara is interesting, it’s real and in reality; fucking terrifying. How can you mess up this movie so badly?

No.
2/10

I gained absolutely nothing from this experience bar the knowledge that Natalie Dormer makes for an attractive goth.

_Final rating:★½: – Boring/disappointing. Avoid if possible._

The Forest has a creepy enough atmosphere, but it’s not enough to make up for the confused plot and lack of scares.
I had my eye on this movie since it came out earlier this year. It was a January release so I was in no rush to see it, but it had a genuinely cool premise: looking for someone in the suicide forest, which is an actual place in Japan where people go to commit suicide. It’s pretty unsettling. In the movie, it’s said that the forest compels people to kill themselves due to supernatural forces or vengeful spirits. The Forest focuses on Sara, whose sister has gone missing in said forest, and Sara’s desperate endeavors to find her sister despite the evidence pointing to her being dead. Up until about the 30-minute mark, I was on board. The pieces were set, the exposition was established, and the characters (Sara, her journalist friend Aiden, and a tour guide) were finally heading into the forest. Again, the atmosphere is creepy throughout. The director clearly has a grasp on how to build tension.

The problem is that the promising build ups lead to zero payoffs. There are handful of cheap jump scares, a couple of which admittedly shocked me but only momentarily. Once the initial shock wore off seconds later I was in the same state of mind as before. Effective jump scares linger for a while; they imbue dread and usually add something to the narrative. The jump scares here are your typical, “Boo! Something’s behind you!”, which are easy to shrug off. Also, once they’re in the forest, the characters make some decisions that are unfathomably stupid and out-of-character. Like, the main point of the forest is that it makes you think you see things, a psychedelic effect if you will. So after Sara receives this crucial information, she runs after the first thing she sees scurrying around in the forest. While it’s pitch black, mind you. It completely takes you out of the movie and makes you lose all empathy for the characters for putting themselves in these avoidable situations.

Also, The Forest focuses more on the bond between Sara and her sister than the actual forest. So there are plenty of flashbacks, dream sequences, all that garbage that just muddles the fact that, hey, this forest is really f*cking scary. Why not focus on the forest instead of forcing character development, if you can even call it that? It makes no sense. Also, there’s nothing we haven’t seen before. People being hung? First scene in Sinister. Claustrophobic underground tunnels? The Descent. The only thing that makes the movie unique is the actual setting which is used as a backdrop more than anything.

The acting is good, as is the premise, but the potential littered within this movie is never fully realized. The director can definitely creep you out but he’ll need a better script if he wants to make a truly great movie. The Forest just leaves you feeling hollow and disappointed.

snoozing in the forest
I sometimes go to see a movie and just know that I will not remember it in a week’s time. There may be the general, vague sense that this movie did not work on any concrete level, or just on that level of engaging me, but I won’t remember any of the scares or anything that makes The Forest worth recommending. One scene is somewhat interesting: the main character Sara, played by Natalie Dormer, tells someone about how her parents died in a driving accident, and then the flashback we witness on screen is what *really* happened (murder/suicide in a basement), and that is a nice counterpoint – it was a moment of visual storytelling that made use of contradicting what the character was saying, but we know what the truth is. If only anything else in the movie was as striking as that, but alas it’s all the easy-road from there.

It’s a ‘twin-sibling-ghost-horror’ type of story (that’s a sub-genre, right?) where one sister goes into the Japanese suicide woods – also called Aokigahara, by the mount Fujuyama – to find the other, who has gone in a fit of depression and angst. The problem with the movie is that, whether it’s due to the script or how the director (first timer Jason Zada) staged his actors or the lack of emotion, it just didn’t connect emotionally or have much resonance. It’s full of clichés and things we’ve seen before, and characters do dumb things (let’s stay in the woods overnight… then let’s leave the camp ground… then let’s x-y-z), and Natalie Dormer, while fine on Game of Thrones and in supporting roles, can’t really carry what’s asked of her in the movie (what little there is).

I wish I could go further into what didn’t do for me, whether it’s lack of scares or real atmosphere (that’s part of it), or a climax and conclusion that just gets nonsensical and stupid and with a final shot that is insulting and the most horrid current horror movie cliché used for the 39293th time… but I don’t really recall even now what makes it so bad, which is the problem with it. The filmmakers don’t get as much creativity out of the premise, the setting, or the darkly surreal moments (i.e. visions spurred by the ghosts of the woods or visions of fears). It’s simply forgettable and inane, full of jump scares that don’t scare (or really jump well either), and atmosphere that feels tired and that if this isn’t a rip-off or remake of a horror movie from Japan it seems all the stranger. It’s a weak movie, plain and simple.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min)
Budget 10000000
Revenue 37608299
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Jason Zada
Writer Ben Ketai, Sarah Cornwell, Nick Antosca
Actors Natalie Dormer, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa XT Plus, Cooke S4 and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Light Iron (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Digital
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format D-Cinema