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The Forest
MEANRANK
39/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5806
- IMDb #5664
- Google retired #3681
- Rotten Tomatoes #5104
- Metacritic #4866
- Letterboxd #5709
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5431
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5097
- Metacritic Critics #4594
- Metacritic Audience #4863
- Kinopoisk #5430
- AlloCiné #5207
- Trakt #5063
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 10, highest is Google on 60. Critics average 22, everyone else 43.
See the most agreed on films →A woman travels to Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a notorious suicide site at the base of Mount Fuji, to search for her twin sister who has disappeared there. Convinced her sister is still alive, she ventures into the haunted woodland with a guide. The forest preys on her fears, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish reality from terrifying illusion as she delves deeper.
Details
- Director
- Jason Zada
- Writers
- Ben Ketai, Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell
- Studio
- Lava Bear Films, AI Film, Phantom Four
- Released
- 7 January 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $37.6M
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