The suicide forest’s cultural value is trivialized in the bum-rush to liberate the main characters from their agonies.

The Forest ends up feeling like an extended journey to a predestined shrug of a conclusion.

Dumb Americans get lost in a Japanese forest and bad things happen to them.

(15) Jason Zada, 93 mins. Starring: Natalie Dormer, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt

Every cliché of contemporary or vintage horror is ready to leap out and not scare Natalie Dormer in this by-the-numbers ghost flick

Japan’s Aokigahara forest is a notorious suicide spot – and it’s also proving fatal for film-makers, as this incoherent and meretricious horror movie proves

“The Forest” is a fairly promising feature debut from director Jason Zada, which isn’t the same thing as saying it’s a good horror film. It does, however, contain one clever series of images, akin to (but not nearly as frightening as) the woman crawling out of the well and through the TV screen in “The […]

“The Forest” is one of those horror movies that starts with an intriguing idea but has no idea what to do with it.

The Forest is a low-budget horror film that arrives in January with the usual low expectations associated with early year releases. Considering the movie’s undistinguished profile and limited marketing, it seems unlikely The Forest will gain ...

Does Natalie Dormer's new Japan-set horror deliver the chills? Find out at Empire Online.

Natalie Dormer gets lost in the woods in this woeful horror from first-time director Jason Zada.

Kernel Rating (out of 5):  MPAA Rating: PG-13        Length: 93 minutes Age Appropriate For: 15+. This run-of-the-mill horror film doesn’t have that many truly horrifying images, but its real-life location and its subject matter is inherently upsetting with its focus on suicide and people taking their own lives. In this forest, there […]

Natalie Dormer plays the duel role of a sister who hits the paranormal wilds of Mount Fuji’s ‘suicide forest’ to search for her troubled and possibly dead identical twin

Review: 'The Forest' doesn't live up to its ghost-story potential

There's barely a scare to be found in this tale of a woman searching for her sister in an infamous Japanese suicide locale

Aokigahara Forest, Japan’s ‘Suicide Forest’ is genuinely horrifying. This disappointingly bad American horror movie set within it – not so much. As many as 100

Supernatural thriller is set in Japan's Aokigahara Forest

Japan’s Aokigahara forest becomes just a generic creepy wood in this predictable scary movie starring Natalie Dormer