This movie really surprised me, was expecting a regular boring horror movie but i got a really good ghost type movie with a good enough story. I must add i love ghost horror movies.The reason i truly enjoyed the forest is because its based on actual Japanese lore, the suicide forest at mt Fuji. the moment they enter the forest and it turns dark, the suspense starts and it doesn't stop until the movie ends.If you are in to ghost horror movies with actual background your in for a thrill, and i highly recommend it. if you like slashers/bloody horror movies with a killer on the lose or whatever, don't watch it.

The movie is badly written, the plot twists are just dumb and are just there to make the bad writing go somewhere. to me this movie fails at so many levels it's hard to believe some people liked it. things just start bad and go nowhere and does not make you compassionate about the situation, i was more annoyed by the beginning of this movie. bad acting from the boyfriend, the dialogs are badly written and sometime just go nowhere, do nothing for the story and it's just boring, dumb and annoying, the main character just comes out as dumb and sad nothing more. JUST TELL ME WHY she goes with a stranger to that forest, why even trust a guy you don't know especially when you are looking for your missing sister. the actual action in the movie is STUPID, cut off a chicken head and let it go, that represent the action. the play between reality and the supernatural that happen is again really stupid and not very well used in this movie. the girl sees thing that aren't real and does not doubt for a second that it is real even after it happened lots f time that shows her that she's being tricked. Basically everything that happens in this movie is stupid and what happens is only there to put the main character in bad situations, if you take this movie and take out everything that could and would not be stupid and pointless, this movie would be about 30 minutes long and it would still be boring. the ending is predictable and boring dumb and just confirms that you've watched a really dumb boring movie. the only reason this movie still has people liking it, it's because of the quality of the filming and by that i mean they did take people who knew how to film good looking scenes, good angles etc... still the most interesting thing to watch in this movies is Miss dormer, beautiful woman but not good enough actress to give a great performance in a so badly made movie.

You all know I love Japan, their culture and their mythology. A horror film set in the infamous Aokigahara Forest where troubled individuals contemplate their lives and commit suicide should've been more frightening than this. Is this seriously the best they could do? Sara flies to Japan now knowing that her twin sister Jess went into the depths of the cursed forest. She must control her own paranoia and disillusioned mind as she embarks through the 'Sea Of Trees' (bonus points if you see what I did there) to find her sister. Natalie Dormer gives two decent dual performances, the cinematography is splendid and the setting is one of the most fascinating environments in the world. That's all this film has going for it. I physically cannot call this a horror film, there is legitimately nothing scary about this. Heck, some of the trees are scarier than the actual jump scares...seriously, look at those ghastly branches! All the jump scares consist of loud noises or someone's face that turns into a horrible grey ghost face thing...all too repetitive, all too boring. Sara and the gang come across one victim to suicide, which is atleast handled with more care than Logan Paul's controversial video (see...I can be current too!). The second act sees them walk around for thirty minutes as Sara hears voices or sees ghostly apparitions. That's all well and good, but when the tour guide clearly commands "if you see anything unusual, it's not real it is just your mind" you would acknowledge that right? Nooo Sara is thinking she only lives once, lets follow the creepy Japanese school girl in the middle of a dense forest. Then there is some backstory about her parents killing themselves, a few predictable twists and turns in the third act to then only conclude in unsatisfactory fashion. Honestly though, my expectations were low considering this was a first week January release...and still those expectations weren't met. Yawnnn.

Sara Price (Natalie Dormer) receives a call from the Japanese police about her twin sister Jess. She was seen walking into Aokigahara forest where most people go to commit suicide. Sara goes in search for her twin sister. She is befriended by writer Aiden and with Michi as guide, they go into the forest.I do like the live shrimp sushi and found it weirdly funny Cronenberg-like. The maggots are a more common body horror. Otherwise, all the horror moments are laughably bland and unimaginative. The movie's greatest sin is that it's rather dull. None of it is scary. All too often, it's a dream. The pacing is slow. It's a lot of blah.