Movie Review: “The Forest”

Hau Nguyen, Staff Writer

Sara Price, an American woman, received a phone call from the Japanese police telling her that they thought her troubled twin sister Jess was dead, as she was seen going into Aokigahara forest. Despite the concerns of her fiancé Rob, she journeyed to Japan and arrived at the hotel where her sister was staying.

The Forest is about a boy who lost his father and so he and his mother moved in with the now dead father s brother. The boy met a girl, and they talked and stuff but then he stumbled upon the forest were he saw the girl hanging by rope in the tree. So she had been dead the entire time. Well the uncle kills himself and tries to torment the girl so the boy has to cut the rope and essentially kill her spirit and then he ends up just hanging himself.

Going to my first horror movie in theatres with two of my friends and I’m not sure how scary it’ll be. I’m finding it creepy and stuff, “jump scares” is what I’m terrified of. The forest in the movie is a real place in Japan, not somewhere, but legend says,” People get some kind message or something”, tell people go there, then end up dyeing. There are no living animals in that forest, Birds, nothing.

It’s not like pulling teeth dull or anything like that, it is a good story. It really does not hurt that Natalie Dormer is fun to look at for an hour or two as she plays a woman looking for her twin sister who entered a forest in Japan known to attract those who want to commit suicide and never comes outer, Taylor Kinney is in it as well as a reporter trying to help, but has his own agenda.