Sara Price (Natalie Dormer) receives a call from a Tokyo police office advising her that her sister Jess, who is her twin, has disappeared but she was last seen heading to a local forest which is known as a location where people go to commit suicide so Sara packs up and heads off to japan to locate here sister who she knows is still alive due to the fact that they are indeed twins and have a connection towards each other feelings.

Despite the advice of all and sundry when she arrives in Tokyo, Sara is determined to head into the forest to find her sibling and she befriends Aiden (Taylor Kinney), a writer, in a bar who agrees to allow her accompany himself and his friend Michi (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) who make regular rounds through the forest searching for the bodies of those who have already committed suicide.

While the forest and it’s association with suicide is a very real thing in Japan there is no time given into explaining the why’s or how’s of why this has transpired so the movie then turns into an advertisement for hiking with numerous cut shots of Sara’s Nike runners as they trawl through the forest looking for signs of her sister or any other unfortunate souls who have come to the forest to die. When they find signs of Jess’s tent Michi decides that they should call the search off, leave a note and return the following day but Sara will not leave and decides to spend the night. Aidan, clearly thinking with his below the belt brain, decides he will stay with Sara so as darkness descends the warnings they have received about the forest begin to ring true as mysterious noises, lead to hallucinations and the ‘ghosts’ of the forest lead Sara off in a willow the wisp fashion leaving her and subsequently Aidan who chases after her lost in the vast area of the forest.

It’s then a struggle for them to get back to civilization against the back drop of the forest not wanting them to escape which leads to a climax that I spotted from about half way through the film. So in the end, while Dormer does her best with the script, it is another jump scare, bump in the night, run of the mill horror that’s been done so many times before and while horror fans will probably be entertained for an hour and a half, steer clear if this is not your thing.

DJ Speaks Rating: 4.5 Out Of 10