Review of The Forest (2016) by Mark P — 30 Mar 2016

The Forest is a dumb and cliched horror movie that wastes a good lead actress and interesting premise. Natalie Dormer does fine in the lead role. There a couple of moments where she was spotty, but overall she did fine in her role.

Taylor Kinney was also convincing in his role. But this film has a lot of narrative problems. There are many plot elements that aren't drawn out throughout the film. The psychological elements of the film were very overdone.

The script is filled numerous jump scares and horror movie cliches. I was really hoping that this film would break the January horror movie curse. Unfortunately, I was wrong. The film wasn't complete garbage.

I liked it a little more towards the end. Still, this is still just another generic, bad horror film.