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Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Edvis-1997 That was one of the worst horror movie that I've seen in my whole life. Someone was missing,someone was trying to search and switched bodies... Serously...It was impossible to follow the plot because there wasn't any plot... Totally disaster... Don't waste your time and never-ever watch this "movie" if we can call it a movie...

lorcan-61881 So guys,get ready please to see a bunch of horror reviews,cause it's October! Yay! My favorite holiday,mostly because,my favorite genre,horror movies,mostly come out most on this year,so get ready because I will be reviewing the newest horror films,like Jigsaw,Happy Death Day,The Ritual and mother! and just,throwing in some old classics,I don't know how many I review,but when the 01st hits,it will be gone,so stay in touch,but for now,let's start with..The Forest. So,The Forest is a horror film that I always admired the idea of,I love the idea of a film setting in the famous Japanese suicide forest and I never actually got around to watching it so,while on Netflix,I watched it(as well as Poltergeist 2,stay in touch by the way as well for my reviews of the Poltergeist series). So,a girl goes in to these woods to look for her missing sister,that's pretty much it. The Forest,I really enjoyed,I didn't really have any problems with it,I found it very creepy and not something you'd slip away from with boredness. Natalie Dorman did a fantastic job as herself,and her other sister. I would call this film though more of a,say,Drama Thriller then a horror,there weren't much horror scenes in it,except for,ugh! The jump scares,all the time,but anyway,The Forest is a really good horror film,going down there as one of my favorites. Stay here guys for tomorrow's review though for Poltergeist,1,2 and 3,haven't got around to watching three,but I will watch it tomorrow,and then review it!!

Zac Beatty This is literally the first movie that I almost left the theater! The horrible acting, crappy/poorly animated jump scares, and the horrendous writing makes up this movie.Focusing more on the jump scares, they were really bad. There is literally a "Jump scare" of the main character walking down the hall of a hotel when suddenly the camera quickly zooms in on an old ladies badly CGI'd face (don't tell me why it was CGI'd the next cut it shows the old lady in real life) with a loud bang sound. It reminded me of the poorly made horror apps in the app store that try to scare people. There were other horrible jump scares including a random zombie person running at the camera?(Doesn't explain who it is or what it is).(SPOILERS) The story wasn't that bad, it's the execution that ruined that. Natalie Dormer had little to no emotion in this, she screamed a few times but that's about it. They talk about her twin sister a lot, who any logical person could tell, killed herself in the forest, but because of this really badly explained 'Kinetic Force' that connected them, Natalie's character went in. Rob made barely any sense, he was somehow the bad guy even though he had no motivations nor ways of being a bad guy and good guy, it only made sense if he was one, not both. Then maybe she was tripping and it wasn't him, I really don't know. Lastly, the end was an animated zombie running at the camera. WHAT THE FREAKING HECK? When the heck did zombies get thrown in this (Would have been a better movie if zombies were put into this earlier) It really made no sense at all. I mockingly acted scared when it happened because of how stupid it was, people in the audience were laughing and cringing after this end.All in all, this movie barely gets 2/10, the scenery is nice because it's Japan, it's hard to mess that up. There was a scary visual one time in a cave, but that's about it. Don't see this movie unless you want to waste your time!

bowmanblue I can tell you now… this is going to be a short review. If you've watched a horror movie made after 'The Ring' (US remake, this is) then you've pretty much seen 'The Forest.' It seems that even though 'The Ring' didn't invent this type of film, it did make it popular enough to totally create the formula for a thousand similar films to come. The protagonist (normally a woman – in this case 'Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer) comes across a spooky occurrence and sets out to investigate… slowly.Natalie Dormer plays Sara, a twin whose sister goes missing in a forest in Japan. Therefore Sara has to travel half way round the world to investigate. Of course when she arrives she soon finds that local folklore states that the forest is well and truly haunted, due to the fact that many people seem to go there to die. So she investigates and – guess what – finds that it is definitely haunted. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself. She doesn't go in alone. In order to create a little (obligatory?) s3xual tension, the night before she goes hiking into the depths of the forest, she meets a man in a bar who seems interested enough in her story to help her out. He makes it clear that he's a journalist and, along with helping her, wants to record her story for a future article. Actually, in a story that's pretty run-of-the-mill, he's one high point. You may expect him to be the 'gallant hero' type, however, he's actually a bit of a div – makes a nice change! Anyway, his failings in the role of 'leading/supporting' man can't really save the film. Like I say, if you know your modern horror (2000s+ give or take) you'll know how it goes – a slow build up on the tension then a load of shaky camera work and some jump scares, plus vaguely unsettling ghostly images to prove the film had a bit of a budget spent on make-up. By the time you get near the end of the film you can sort of guess the ending, i.e. everyone lives happily ever after, everyone dies horribly, or there's some sort of twist where it turns out that this was all some sort of virtual reality simulator created by vampires from the future. Either way, you won't really care. By this time you'll have been checking your Instagram account on your smartphone and have forgotten you were even watching this film.The actors were good enough. They did their best with what was provided. There just wasn't enough original material here to offer any seasoned horror buff anything new. If you've never seen a horror film before you'll probably adore 'The Forest.' Personally, being someone who has a DVD collection with 90% of titles ending '…of the Living Dead,' I've been here and moved on. Still, Natalie Dormer was good in Game of Thrones.