In “The Forest,” out Friday, Natalie Dormer plays a woman searching for her twin sister, who is lost in a Japanese forest. Then scary things happen, because in movies, going into the woods is ...

It’s depressing, but when you use it to drive the plot of a movie billed ... guide through the forest. Another important element here: The forest is supposedly full of evil spirits that will ...

The Forest isn’t particularly egregious—it’s not the worst movie you’ll likely see in 2016, but the simple fact is there’s nothing even remotely unique or interesting about it outside of ...

Michi (Yukiyoshi Ozawa), Sara (Natalie Dormer) and Aiden (Taylor Kinney) star in “The Forest." Aokigahara is ... and a good chunk of the movie is downright spooky. Sadly, this solid section ...

The Forest Natalie Dormer ... a twist that never materializes, and the movie ends with the most overused final shot in horror. It takes a premise full of thematic resonance about depression ...

Critic's rating: 2 stars out of 5 The setting and setup are ideal for horror The horror is muted by a plot that makes little sense “The Forest” is one of those horror movies that starts with ...

The snap of a twig, the rustle of a branch – that’s about as scary as it gets in The Forest, a supernatural horror movie afraid of its own shadow. That’s too bad, given its promising ...

and it happens in full view of the public. Every year, during the first proper weekend of January, the studios’ niche labels trot out the horror movies they know have nothing to contribute to ...