Another movie that squanders its unique setting to deliver cliched storytelling and sub-par chills. This movie takes place in the famous Aokigahara Forest, which is certainly a rich and disturbing location to explore, but the movie itself is a nigh-incoherent mess. This is always the peril when dealing with a mentally unstable protagonist, but the issues are compounded by a resoundingly stupid protagonist. There are several disturbing images, and there's a worthy attempt at creating a chilling atmosphere, but these are also squandered with an absolute dearth of actual scares. Even as the middle of the movie becomes a disjointed, jumbled mess of poorly executed jump scares, unfathomable behaviors and stupid dialogue, the ending is still predictable beyond measure. Likely you can predict the ending of this movie from watching the trailer, so I'd recommend passing on both.
The Forest