JonPritchard published The Forest (15): Reviews, pictures and trailer

Jason Zada's formulaic horror might be dismissed as exploitative and tasteless for conjuring supernatural scares in Aokigahara Forest, a notorious real-life hotspot for Japanese suicides at the northwest base of Mount Fuji. But that would credit The Forest with more intelligence, guile and intent than are on display in a ham-fisted and plodding script penned by Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell and Ben Ketai. Their hodgepodge of genre cliches and malnourished, two-dimensional characters fails...