I'd honestly rather inflict pain on myself than sit through the recent horror films Hollywood is churning out. Why are there no original ideas, just reliance on cheap jump scares and ridiculous storylines? Okay. Ugh. The movie starts with a woman receiving a casual phone call informing her that her sister has entered the suicide forest and has been missing for 48 hours; she’s now presumed to have died by suicide and won't be searched for. There’s absolutely no character development at this point, so I don’t know these people at all. The twin sister travels to Japan to look for her sister, but instead of immediately starting the search, she goes out for sushi and seems more concerned about the fish being raw than finding her sibling. She has a dream featuring a ghostly child in her tent—that's cheap jump scare number one—and it feels completely pointless because we still have no background information to connect with the characters or understand what’s happening. Of course, the main character is blonde while her sister, who apparently decided to kill herself, has dark hair and a gothic look; clearly, they didn’t want to be too cliché. We get flashbacks of her sister giving her a vase and saying “Grandpa’s in there,” so the blonde opens it only to find he isn't inside, prompting a laugh. Eventually, she begins looking for her sister at some random location (I had tuned out by this point), and the person there says her sister is downstairs. The blonde then walks down into a basement full of corpses and, true to form so far, seems more annoyed by the smell than concerned that her sister might be among the dead. I was honestly expecting a selfie at that point. She meets a man in a bar and, after recounting her life story over drinks, they share a toast—to what? The fact that her twin is probably hanging from a tree? He takes her into the forest with an experienced ranger; after a grueling journey (for me, not them), they find the sisters’ tent, and she wants to stay. She seems happy to have found the tent… which raises red flags. An empty tent in a suicide forest—are you serious? When she sees a ghoul, she dramatically tells the man (the barfly) that she saw a girl the night before. When he asks what the girl said, her best response is, “She spoke something in Japanese.” Seriously! You could have come up with something like, "she wanted to stab me and then do unspeakable things with the remains." The rest of the movie is probably shrouded in darkness so they can just throw random people who look like Chucky into the scenes. The ending doesn't make sense; the plot is incredibly weak, and I am once again frustrated by the amount of garbage being released to theaters these days. Aokigahara forest is fascinating—it’s a real place and genuinely terrifying in reality. How could they mess this movie up so badly? No. 2/10

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