Once the initial shock wore off seconds later I was in the same state of mind as before. There are handful of cheap jump scares, a couple of which admittedly shocked me but only momentarily. The director clearly has a grasp on how to build tension.The problem is that the promising build ups lead to zero payoffs. Again, the atmosphere is creepy throughout. 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. Up until about the 30-minute mark, I was on board. 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. In the movie, it's said that the forest compels people to kill themselves due to supernatural forces or vengeful spirits. 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. I had my eye on this movie since it came out earlier this year.
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