A few creepy moments, but it's a boring and predictable mess.

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Forest

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VidaBoheme — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 02:17 PM)

I only watched this because I like Natalie Dormer, and it was on HBOGO. How can an hour and a half feel so long? More importantly, how can a movie that effectively creeps you out one moment, rely on cheap jump scares the next? Such a missed opportunity here.

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bornskeptic — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 07:28 AM)

Agree with your 'missed opportunity' assessment. The setting and subject matter and also the whole missing twin thing had great promise.
But this was not a good movie at all. Most of it due to a sloppy and lazy script. But the cheap jump scares didn't help.

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mgreen9715 — 9 years ago(December 17, 2016 09:03 PM)

Blah blah blah.
What a bunch of whiney bitches.

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VidaBoheme — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 06:55 AM)

I'm sorry that people didn't respond better to your screenplay.

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VidaBoheme — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 06:58 AM)

And so many PG-13 "horror" movies rely on cheap jump scares heavily, because they are limited in what they can show. Maybe it works for teenage girls 30 times, but I'm so tired of that predictable crap.

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bornskeptic — 9 years ago(December 22, 2016 07:08 PM)

It works for teenage girls because they don't have a history of watching horror movies for 20-30 years like the more 'jaded' viewer might. They just started watching scary movies a couple of years ago so stuff like this might flip them out.
Imagine a pack of teenage girls raised on this garbage sitting in a theatre and watching The Exorcist or the original Evil Dead. Their heads would explode.