Because Everybody Else Has One

Completely forgot to post this. Not that it matters much. Everything about the Forest is forgettable so why shouldn't this be. This review has also been up at Channel 24 for a few days.  And, yes, there are some much more interesting movies up for review coming up - even if just in capsule form. What it's about Sara Price heads off to Japan to look for her twin sister, Jess, who was last seen entering the notorious “Suicide Forest”. What we thought Tapping into a real-world phenomenon like Japan's infamous suicide forest, Aokigahara (though actually shot in a forest in Serbia, apparently), which, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't featured in an American horror film before, should be almost enough to give the Forest an edge over most modern day horror movies. Sadly, though it's not without one or two vaguely creepy moments, the film constantly falls foul of the same trappings that have put the genre into such disrepair over the last decad...