The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,044 2010s horror movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Ratings
IMDb4.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes10%
Metacritic34/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
1,907 audience votes
Key crew
- Jason ZadaDirector
- Bear McCrearyOriginal Music Composer
- Sarah CornwellWriter
- Nick AntoscaWriter
- Ben KetaiWriter
Cast
- Natalie DormerSara / Jess Price
- Eoin MackenRob
- Stephanie VogtValerie
- Osamu TanpopoHomeless Man
- Yasuo TobishimaSushi Chef
- Ibuki KanedaMei (Schoolgirl)
- Akiko IwaseHead Teacher
- Kikuo IchikawaBusinessman
- Noriko SakuraMayumi
- Jozef AokiVisitor Center Morgue Man
- Yûho YamashitaSakura
- Taylor KinneyAiden
Stills
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Themes
suicide attemptsupernaturalchildhood traumafemale protagonisttokyo, japanidentical twinlost in the woodssister sister relationshipmount fuji, japanaokigaharahaunted forest