Went to see the Mediocre New Year Horror Movie “The Forest” on Sunday – such a great movie it took me 24 hours to get my thoughts together to post about it. By which I mean, so irrelevant to everything that is good and interesting or even terrible that I just didn’t have the ambition to dredge up anything to say.
Yeah, it’s not a good movie but it’s so aggressively mediocre, there’s not a lot to say. It is interesting in that it stars Natalie Dormer from Game of Thrones, I guess. Or that it’s based on the real-life Suicide Forest near Mt. Fuji and trades in Japanese folklore. That’s at least fairly interesting.
But the movie is just a bunch of jump scares and attempts to mess with your head by offering spooks that can pretty much do whatever they want as the script needs. No rules… just the film version of a haunted house, moving from scare to scare. I wish it was worse and I wish it was at least decent. Instead, it’s a half-deflated kickball in the middle of the gym.
Score: 64