2016 · horror · thriller · mystery
The Forest
Directed by Jason Zada1h 33m2016
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Our read: The Forest (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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