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On July 11th, a horror film called The Breach – which was executive produced by legendary musician Slash, who also co-produced the score – will be getting a VOD and digital release in the United States. And Variety reports that Slash has already lined up his next horror project: he’s teaming with Steven Schneider of Room 101, Inc. and Spooky Pictures – a producer whose genre credits include Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch, and Old – for a film called Janus.

Jason Zada (The Forest) will be directing Janus from a screenplay he wrote with Nate Atkins. The story centers on three band members seeking refuge in an old farmhouse where they encounter a woman harboring an unspeakable secret.

Alex Neustaedter (American Rust), Natalie Alyn Lind (Big Sky), Jack Kilmer (Lords of Chaos), Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things), and M.C. Gainey (Con Air) have already been cast in the film.

Slash and Schneider are producing...

A new slate of horror movies is on the way from Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity) and Malkier Studios, with musician Slash on board as well, Variety reports this week.

The collaboration will be focused on “creating IP driven horror, animation and thriller content.”

The first project in the works is a horror film titled Janus from director Jason Zada (The Forest). Written by Nate Atkins, the film will follow three band members seeking refuge in an old farmhouse where they encounter a woman harboring an unspeakable secret.

Alex Neustaedter (“American Rust”), Natalie Alyn Lind (“Big Sky”), Jack Kilmer (“Lords of Chaos”), Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”), and M.C. Gainey (“Emperor”) will star.

Slash is producing Janus alongside Steven Schneider.

From there, period horror movie The Worthless Remains is next up. Director X. (Superfly) is directing the project, which was written by Micah Ranum (The Silencing).

Schneider said, “Producing a horror...

Prolific genre producer Steven Schneider of Room 101, Inc. and Spooky Pictures, is teaming with Malkier Studios on a slate of horror films.

Schneider’s credits include “Paranormal Activity,” “Blair Witch,” and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old.”

Producing alongside Schneider will be D.C. Cassidy, Michael Fisk and Julia Wang Zhu under the newly formed Malkier Studios production company that will focus on creating IP driven horror, animation and thriller content.

First up under the collaboration is “Janus,” written by Nate Atkins (“Blood-Red Ox”) and Jason Zada with Zada also directing. It will follow three band members seeking refuge in an old farmhouse where they encounter a woman harboring an unspeakable secret. Schneider and Joe Heath will produce alongside Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who will bring his musical expertise and oversight to the film. The cast includes Alex Neustaedter (“American Rust”), Natalie Alyn Lind (“Big Sky”), Jack Kilmer (“Lords of Chaos...

What if you could interact with the main character in a horror movie?

That’s the premise behind Emerson, a psychological horror film that plays out in real-time via the social media platforms TikTok and Instagram. The main character, Emerson, posts videos for a period of 10 days, documenting something she at first perceives to be supernatural, only to discover it’s something even more sinister.

Created by Jason Zada and Nate Atkins, Emerson is being billed as “the first horror film to be made exclusively for TikTok,” and it’s being posted authentically from the main character’s social media account (@lostgirl_emerson) in short snippets over 10 days.

“Emerson is an experiment in next-generation storytelling designed for a new generation of entertainment consumers,” we’re told, with the final part releasing on October 28.

You can follow along on Tiktok and Instagram now. Watch the teaser below…

Jason Zada and Nate...

If you think the scariest thing about TikTok is how it makes anyone older than 30 feel culturally ignorant, you’re in for a treat. The platform has its first horror movie under the tag @lostgirl_emerson, and it seems to have it all: horrifying noises, creepy dolls, and, of course, a goth girl dancing around her living room, unaware that a mysterious figure is reflected in her TV screen.

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TikTok, I need your help! #horror #halloween #scary #goth #creepy

♬ original sound – Emerson Hayes

“The main character, Emerson, posts...

For fans of webcam horror flicks like Host and Unfriended, there’s now a new interactive short called Take This Lollipop 2 that will put you right into the Zoom grid — and danger.

Take This Lollipop 2 is a sequel-of-sorts to a 2011 Facebook app with the same name, which took a user’s personal information and used it to make them the star of a horror movie — the victim of a creepy stalker played by Bill Oberst Jr. The title is a reference to the 1963 song “Please Little Girl, Take This Lollipop,...

Just when you thought that lengthy quarantining might mean you’d have a chance to get completely caught up on the Internet, Twenty One Pilots have come along to remind you that that goal remains ever so slightly out of grasp, with a spontaneously regenerating new music video that bears the promise of being endless.

“Level of Concern (Never Ending Video)” starts the music anew every three minutes and 40 seconds, but there’s a constant stream of new imagery submitted by fans of the duo, interspersed among occasional shots from Twenty One Pilots’ original “Level of Concern” music video.

The song itself, with its lockdown theme (“Won’t you be my little quarantine?”), has been No. 1 on the alternative radio chart in the six weeks since its release, amassing what their label says is 150 million global streams prior to the new mega-video’s release.

The group has a submission page...

Twenty One Pilots have launched a unique “never-ending” music video for their recent single, “Level of Concern.”

The clip debuted just after midnight on Monday, June 22nd, and is still going, mixing footage of the band with clips and photos uploaded by fans to the Twenty One Pilots website. Every three minutes and 40 seconds, the video refreshes and plays again with a completely new set of images.

“Level of Concern” was released back in April and found Twenty One Pilots searching for some optimism at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Exclusive: Activist Artists Management has tapped literary manager Jon Kanak to work alongside the firm’s talent department.

Based at Los Angeles headquarters, he will continue to focus on representing writers and directors as well as concentrate on Activist’s film and TV development and packaging.

Last year, Kanak set up several projects, including Reset (Paramount) and Anima & Saci (Hindsight Media).

Activist’s roster of clients now includes Marcus Kryler & Fredrik Akerstrom, Nate Atkins, Bill Marsilli, Jason Zada (The Forest), Philippe Van Leeuw (In Syria), Jay Longino and Justin Kreutzmann (Long Strange Trip) among others.

Kanak will also be representing the works of The New York Times Best Seller, Stephen Frey (The Chairman), as well as international best-selling authors Richard Doetsch (The 13th Hour) and Patricia Dunn (Rebels by Accident).

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Rising with terrifying grandeur, the forest is real – and it is the suspense-filled setting of The Forest, a frightening supernatural thriller on Digital HD now, and on Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on April 12, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The Forest on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD comes with terrifying bonus features including behind-the-scenes photos and feature commentary with director Jason Zada.

A young woman’s hunt for her missing sister leads to horror and madness in The Forest, starring Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games) and Taylor Kinney (Chicago Fire, Zero Dark Thirty). When her troubled twin sister Jess mysteriously disappears, Sara Price (Dormer) discovers Jess vanished in Japan’s legendary Aokigahara Forest. Searching its eerie dark woods with the help of journalist Aiden (Kinney), Sara plunges into a tormented world where angry spirits lie in wait for those who ignore the warning: stay on the path.

April 12th is a good day to be a genre fan, as we have several great releases coming our way this Tuesday. Arrow Films has put together the definitive edition of the cult classic Bride of Re-Animator that is filled to the brim with all sorts of awesomeness, and Scream Factory is taking us to the Village of the Damned with their Collector’s Edition Blu-ray as well as a double feature of Destroyer and Edge of Sanity.

If you missed it in theaters, now you can finally catch up with The Forest as it arrives on both formats Tuesday. If you’ve been holding out on adding It Follows to your home entertainment collection, there’s a new steelbook edition coming out this week that looks great and we’re also finally getting Flight 7500 on DVD April 12th.

Other notable releases include Where the Devil Dwells, Medousa, and Schramm.

At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's new on TV and Netflix, we've got you covered.

New on Netflix

"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" Season 2 (Netflix Original)

They alive dammit -- it's a miracle! Ellie Kemper's Kimmy Schmidt is back, and better than better, in the second season of Netflix's supremely adorkable comedy. Expect new jobs, new romance, and new songs to go viral when Season 2 starts streaming on Netflix this Friday, April 15. Watch the official trailer to see the whole peenooooooo noooooiiiiir gang back in action:

"Ajin: Demi-Human": Season 1 (Netflix Original)

Here's the Netflix synopsis for this new anime series, adapted from the hit Japanese manga: "A teenager discovers he's an Ajin and flees before the authorities experiment on him. Other Ajin lan to fight back and he must choose a side." The series starts streaming April 12.

"Kong King of...

“Yūrei is a hungry ghost, it’s a vengeful spirit.” On April 12th, viewers can visit Japan’s Aokigahara Forest from the comfort of their couches with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s Blu-ray / DVD release of The Forest, and we’ve been provided with an exclusive special features clip that examines the spectral “beacons of the forest.”

Previous Press Release: Universal City, California, February 25, 2016 – Rising with terrifying grandeur, the forest is real – and it is the suspense-filled setting of The Forest, a frightening supernatural thriller coming to Digital HD on March 22, 2016, and on Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on April 12, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The Forest on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD comes with terrifying bonus features including behind-the-scenes photos and feature commentary with director Jason Zada.

A young woman’s hunt for her missing sister leads to horror and madness in The Forest, starring Natalie Dormer (Game of...

At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.

New Video on Demand, Rental Streaming, and Digital Only

"The Revenant"

Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar, and broke Twitter, for his role as explorer Hugh Glass in "The Revenant," which makes its debut on Digital HD on March 22, with the DVD and Blu-ray to follow on April 19. As you probably know, the movie picked up three Oscars, including Best Actor for Leo, Best Director for Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Best Cinematography. It led this year's Academy Award nominations with 12 nods, including one for Tom Hardy as Best Supporting Actor.

"The Forest"

Natalie Dormer is seeing double this week, with the DVD release of the final "Hunger Games" movie (see below) and the Digital HD debut of her horror film "The Forest" on March 22. This film...

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Natalie Dormer heads to Japan for supernatural horror, The Forest. Any Good? No. Not really...

In the classic horror Don’t Look Now, Nic Roeg turned Venice into a psychological battleground - a haunted city where Donald Sutherland’s grieving father played out the lingering anguish and guilt over his deceased daughter. In The Forest, Natalie Dormer heads to a remote part of Japan and finds herself stranded by a duff plot which barely touches the sides of its own premise.

Let’s keep things brief, because The Forest is awful and we probably shouldn’t linger here too long. Dormer stars in a dual role as American twin sisters Sara and Jess. Jess is an English teacher in Japan who goes missing in Aokigahara - a real-life stretch of forest skirting Mt Fuji that is infamous for being a destination for the suicidal. Sara senses that her sister is still alive,...

Viewers will soon be able to visit Japan’s Aokigahara Forest from the comfort of their couches with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s March 22nd Digital HD debut of The Forest, followed by their April 12th Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD release of the Natalie Dormer-starring film.

Press Release: Universal City, California, February 25, 2016 – Rising with terrifying grandeur, the forest is real – and it is the suspense-filled setting of The Forest, a frightening supernatural thriller coming to Digital HD on March 22, 2016, and on Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on April 12, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The Forest on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital HD comes with terrifying bonus features including behind-the-scenes photos and feature commentary with director Jason Zada.

A young woman’s hunt for her missing sister leads to horror and madness in The Forest, starring Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games) and Taylor Kinney (Chicago Fire, Zero Dark Thirty...

The low-budget horror genre have provided yet another forgettable entry, this time headlined by Game of Thrones favourite Natalie Dormer. Jason Zada’s latest is set in the Aokigahara Forest, in the foothills of Mount Fuji – which has for centuries been linked with death and despair. There are tales of people going into the region to

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Stars: Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt, Yasuo Tobishima, Noriko Sakura, Yûho Yamashita, Lidija Antonic | Written by Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell, Ben Ketai | Directed by Jason Zada

After her sister is reported missing, Sara (Natalie Dormer), journeys from her home in the Us to Japan in search of her twin sister Jess, who was last seen heading to Aokigahara – the infamous suicide forest at the base of Mount Fuji. After a visit to the school where Jess teaches, the resourceful Sara sets out for the forest itself. Accompanied by a charismatic new acquaintance, expatriate journalist Aiden (Taylor Kinney), she enters the forest having been well warned to “stay on the path.” Forest guide Michi (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) keeps a protective eye on them both, but when night falls he cannot dissuade them from staying in the forest, and reluctantly leaves the duo to face the elements alone.

Kicking off with a special screening of The Forest with star Natalie Dormer in attendance, and finishing in racy rock-fuelled style with Sean Byrne’s The Devil’s Candy, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event returns to Glasgow Film Festival with another stellar line-up to shock, chill and thrill. A record thirteen films will screen from Thursday 25th February to Saturday 27th February, alongside a selection of unmissable shorts, guest director Q & A’s, great give-aways and a sneak preview of Paul Hyett’s Heretiks, with the popular director in attendance.

The line-up starts at 9pm on Thurs 25 Feb with the UK Premiere of The Forest starring Natalie Dormer searching for her twin sister in Japan’s most haunted location, the fabled Sea of Trees. The ‘Game of Thrones’ star is making her first appearance at Glasgow Film Festival and is thrilled to be headlining this gala event the...

Genre festival’s 11th year in Glasgow to feature eight UK premieres and the world premiere of Stephen King adaptation Cell.

Film4 FrightFest has unveiled a diverse line-up for their 11th year at Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17 - 28).

Taking place over the final weekend of the festival, FrightFest will feature eight UK premieres, two European premieres and the world premiere of Stephen King adaptation Cell, starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.

The genre strand kicks off on Feb 25 with the UK premiere of Jason Zada’s supernatural chiller The Forest, starring Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer. Dormer will be making her first appearance at Glasgow Film Festival in support of the special screening.

This year’s line-up of 13 titles is FrightFest’s biggest Glasgow strand yet. The programme will close with the UK premiere of Sean Byrne’s Toronto hit The Devil’s Candy. Byrne follows up his genre title The Loved Ones with a tale...

The Aokigahara “suicide forest” near Mt. Fuji in Japan is a real place where dozens of individuals go to kill themselves every year — the kind of setting that’s probably irresistible to certain authors and artists and filmmakers. But you have to be careful around this sort of thing, as evidenced by Jason Zada’s new horror film The Forest. The horror genre gives us kicks out of things that in real life are almost too distressing to complicate: deranged serial killers and monsters from the beyond and what-have-you. Suicide, however, feels less abstract, less otherworldly — closer to home, maybe, a real thing of sadness. For some of its running time, The Forest plays with that idea, which unfortunately just serves to make its eventual descent into lame horror histrionics that much more disappointing.But it starts reasonably well. Our heroine, Sara (Natalie Dormer) gets news that her troubled twin...

Coming after Gus Van Sant’s critically torpedoed Sea of Trees, The Forest is the second recent movie to be set in Aokigahara, the mythic forest located at the base of Mt. Fuji, which has come to be known as the Suicide Forest. It’s a natural monument of cultural and historical significance in Japan’s history, and now, its own repeating ghost story as individuals return there with the express purpose to end their life.

That’s the thematic undercurrent for Jason Zada’s The Forest, a movie that attempts to capitalize on Aokigahara for a story of shared horror, but mostly just settles on a disposable ninety minutes of monster closets and diminishing sanity. As the story begins, Sara (Natalie Dormer) abruptly wakes up, feeling a mysterious disturbance with her twin sister despite being thousands of miles away. She impulsively hops on a flight to her sister’s last known location,...

For the Trees: Zada’s Moody Locale Squandered by Feeble Narrative

We’ve come to expect studios to unbosom their less desirable horror trinkets during the dawning of every new year, and the annual tradition is alive and well with the equivocally titled The Forest from first time director Jason Zada. On a positive note, it’s a return to more traditional formatting, a move away from the found footage items we usually find released in this quarter (The Devil Inside; Devil’s Due), and it’s also not a remake or a dubious sequel (The Last Exorcism Part II). But Zada’s film is the second English language film revealed over the past year to waste its singularly spooky locale, Japan’s Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mt. Fuji (the first being Gus Van Sant’s Cannes blooper, Sea of Trees, which may explain this horror film’s...

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, January 8. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise. Wide The Forest Director: Jason Zada Cast: Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Eoin Macken Synopsis: "Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller. A young American woman, Sara, journeys there in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. In the company of expatriate Aiden, Sara enters the forest having been well warned to “stay on the path.” Determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate, Sara will have to face the angry and tormented souls of the dead that prey on anyone who dares come near them. These malevolent spirits lying in wait for Sara at every turn will plunge her into a frightening darkness...

As pitifully generic as its title, “The Forest” hews to clichés until its final, dying breath. Director Jason Zada hails from the advertising world, and on the basis of his maiden feature, that’s where he should swiftly return, so dreadfully formulaic is his debut, which concerns an American named Sara (Natalie Dormer) who, at film’s outset, dreams of her twin sister Jess (also Dormer) running panicked through Aokigahara Forest – which lies at the base of Mount Fiji – and immediately awakens, packs, and hops aboard a flight to Japan. Sara does this because she and Jess share a twin-link that tells them when the other is in danger, and Sara is convinced that Jess is still alive. When someone later tells her that this sounds “mystical,” she objects, stating that she can simply feel a low sonic vibration running through her body that indicates if her sibling is okay or in trouble.

Japan’s Aokigahara forest is a notorious suicide spot – and it’s also proving fatal for film-makers, as this incoherent and meretricious horror movie proves

American movies don’t know what to do with Japanese culture. They aren’t world war two baddies anymore and the fear of their determined economy “coming to buy us up” has dissipated. The Forest, a trashy horror picture from first-time feature director Jason Zada and screenwriters Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell and Ben Ketai, plays to an audience that probably hasn’t done too much thinking about Japan lately. They eat weird food (it’s still moving!), all the girls wear the same school uniform and everyone believes in ghosts. What powers those ghosts have or how they can harm you is all rather vague, but you best believe it involves being real quiet, then charging at the camera when you least expect it, emitting a high-decibel shriek.

It’s not a huge secret that January hasn’t always been the kindest month to horror movies, as it has become a dumping ground of sorts for genre fare over the last several years. That’s why it’s great to see a film like The Forest come along right about now; it probably won’t be the most revolutionary excursion in terror to come along in theaters in 2016, but it is an incredibly well-made effort from first time feature filmmaker Jason Zada and features strong performances from both Natalie Dormer and Taylor Kinney, all making for a solid and creepy start to the new year of horror.

The Forest follows Sara Price (Dormer) as she heads into the Suicide Forest (or the Aokigahara Forest as it is known as officially), which is located near Mount Fuji in Japan, to find her twin sister Jess (also played by Dormer...

The setting is suitably creepy, a thickly-wooded forest at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan that is known as a terribly popular site for people to commit suicide. The Aokigahara forest has also become associated with the spirit world over the years. In The Forest, directed by Jason Zada, it's where Jess Price (Natalie Dormer) disappears one night. Her identical twin sister Sara (also played by Dormer) senses this immediately. Ignoring her husband Rob (Eoin Macken), who gently suggests that she accept the worst-case scenario. Sara is convinced that her sister is alive and is soon on her way to Japan to find her. Sara is accustomed to picking up after Jess, so she assumes that this is merely the latest example. She...

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Something bad…..evil, happens in Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, a (real) destination popular for those looking for a scenic place to commit suicide. The sheer bad vibes of those woods have trapped its many victims inside as moldy ghosts that haunt people who dare enter. Such ghost stories are common in every storytelling culture, of course, but the Japanese have a long tradition of taking vengeful spirits seriously, in life as well as in art. The Forest, a new Hollywood film set in this foggy Japanese woodland is basically a haunted house film, replacing the house with a forest, but despite one or two mild scares, it never generates much tension and is only notable for being the first lousy horror film of 2016 (I’m sure there will be more).

The Forest tells the story of young American Sara Price (Natalie Dormer) who receives word that her identical twin sister...

As I watched The Forest, drawn in by Aokigahara’s natural horrors, I couldn’t help but feel a weird sense of déjà vu. A nostalgic sensation that called back to my October horror binge – oh right, because I Did see an almost identical story in Grave Halloween only a few months back. That’s not to say similar movies can’t coexist peacefully, and admittedly, The Forest is much better than that previous Syfy effort I just mentioned, but director Jason Zada’s new film is not without its own downfalls. In a wilderness full of danger and deception, it’s easy to find yourself hopelessly lost – just ask screenwriters Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell and Ben Ketai.

Natalie Dormer stars as an identical twin named Sara, whose country-hopping sister, Jess, goes missing in the aforementioned Japanese forest. When a lost soul enters Aokigahara, it’s usually to commit suicide.

Bear McCreary’s music for The Forest is terrifyingly good. Composer Bear McCreary is best known for his work on television, primarily his atmospheric, rural and melancholy music for TV’s hit series The Walking Dead. But here, with his layered, meticulously orchestrated soundscape for director Jason Zada’s eerie supernatural horror film The Forest, he proves himself…

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With a vast array of supernatural beliefs and some of the most memorable psychological horror movies of the past dozen years, Japanese popular culture offers a wealth of references for any suspense film. Audiences unfamiliar with this legacy may initially find The Forest’s imitative stylistic flourishes intriguing, although first-time feature director Jason Zada and his trio of screenwriters spurn most of the genre’s rich legacy. By selecting only a few ghostly elements to establish some context and a modicum of authenticity, The Forest seems determined to withhold scares while attempting to establish a persuasive tone, although moviegoers will likely

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Taylor Kinney is known for his role as Kelly Severide on NBC’s Chicago Fire, but he’s starting out 2016 by jumping into a much more dangerous situation in Jason Zada’s The Forest. Starring alongside Natalie Dormer, Kinney travels deep into Aokigahara’s maze in search of a missing woman, but only finds Japanese horrors who make leaving extremely difficult. This is where psychological torment begins to set in, as mysterious figures begin to warp the minds of their prey – something Kinney’s character is forced to face in all its terror.

Fighting fires isn’t exactly the same as fighting lost Japanese souls, which is something that I wanted to discuss with Taylor during a quick promotional interview here in NYC. Not everyone can make the jump to horror movies, and Kinney...

To celebrate the opening of Gramercy Pictures’ The Forest this Friday, Wamg is giving away free tickets to see the film.

The forest is real. Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mr. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller The Forest.

An American woman, Sara (played by Natalie Dormer of Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games), journeys to the forest in search of her twin sister Jess (also played by Ms. Dormer), who has mysteriously disappeared. Frustrated at Jess’ pattern of behavior, Sara’s husband Rob (Eoin Macken of The Night Shift) is unable to talk his wife out of making the 6,000-mile trip.

After a visit to the school where Jess teaches, the resourceful Sara sets out for the forest itself. Accompanied by a charismatic new acquaintance, expatriate journalist Aiden (Taylor Kinney of Chicago Fire), she enters...

Sara (Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer) wants answers about the vanishing of her sister, but her determination could be her downfall in the eerie Aokigahara Forest. New photos and clips from Gramercy Pictures' The Forest offer a glimpse into the new horror film ahead of its January 8th theatrical release.

"Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller. A young American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer of “Game of Thrones” and “The Hunger Games”), journeys there in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. In the company of expatriate Aiden (Taylor Kinney of “Chicago Fire”), Sara enters the forest having been well warned to “stay on the path.” Determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate, Sara will have to face the angry and tormented souls of the dead...

A person who’s struggling to support a relative who they have always felt was in need of nurturing, particularly if they sense that the tense circumstances of their surroundings have negatively impacted their mental and emotional psyche, can often times find themselves in their own distressing situation. But when the unresolved issues of the seemingly confident person in the family, who appears to be fully in charge of their life, start to pull back their stable and controlled facade, the loved one they’re trying to save unexpectedly becomes the more practical voice of reason. That intriguing exploration into the unraveling of a seemingly stronger sister as she determinedly sets out [ Read More ]

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Another trailer has been released for the creepy upcoming horror film The Forest, which stars Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer. It looks like could be a decent horror flick, and for some reason my 11-year-old daughter is begging me to take her to see it! She rarely begs to go see movies, so the fact that she has latched on to this one is interesting. She just says that it looks like a really good and creepy scary movie.

The film is set in the legendary Aokigahara forest in Japan where people go to commit suicide. The story follows "a young American woman who comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. Despite everyone's warnings not to 'stray from the path,' she dares to enter the forest to discover the truth about her sister's fate, only to be confronted by the angry and tormented souls...

Enter the heart of Aokigahara with a 360-degree video and audio experience ahead of the release of Gramercy Pictures' The Forest. Also in this round-up: a confirmed release date for The Abandoned (formerly The Confines), Kickstarter details on the 4K restoration of the 1963 B movie, The Atomic Brain, and info on The Ice Cream Truck.

The Forest: "Join the Experience and 'Enter the Suicide Forest' http://thesuicideforest.com/.

Enter the Suicide Forest is an immersive 360-degree sight and sound experience that takes fans right into the heart of Aokigahara, the terrifying real-life suicide forest located at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. The experience uses real images taken at Aokigahara.

The experience is best viewed in either mobile or virtual reality using Google Cardboard and your phone. 360-degree video and audio transports fans right into The Suicide Forest.

Find your friend, trace her path...but leave the forest before it takes you.

Gramercy Pictures invites you to enter the Suicide Forest from their upcoming film The Forest.

It is an immersive 360 degree sight and sound experience that takes fans right into the heart of Aokigahara, the terrifying real life suicide forest located at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. The experience uses real images taken at Aokigahara.

Enter here: thesuicideforest.com

The experience is best viewed in either mobile or virtual reality using Google Cardboard and your phone. 360 degree video and audio transports fans right into the The Suicide Forest.

Find your friend, trace her path…but leave the forest before it takes you.

Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller. A young American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer of “Game of Thrones” and “The Hunger Games”), journeys there in search of her twin sister,...

"The forest is very dangerous - do not leave the path." Gramcery Pictures has debuted a second trailer for the supernatural horror thriller The Forest, starring "Game of Thrones" actress Natalie Dormer as a woman who heads to the mysterious forest in Japan to find her sister. As explained for the first trailer, the forest she goes to is Aokigahara Forest in Japan (a very real place), which is also the same place where the film The Sea of Trees directed Gus Van Sant takes place (due out later in 2016). The full cast includes Taylor Kinney, Eoin Macken and Yukiyoshi Ozawa. This doesn't really make me any more interested than the first trailer, but maybe it'll appeal to more horror fans. It all seems a bit too cheesy for my liking. Here's the second trailer (first here) for Jason Zada's The Forest, found on YouTube (via SlashFilm): A...

Gramercy Pictures has released the new trailer and a quad poster for "The Forest," starring Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, and Eoin Macken.

The film is directed by Jason Zada from a screenplay written by Ben Ketai and Sarah Cornwell and Nick Antosca.

Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mr. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller. A young American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer of “Game of Thrones” and “The Hunger Games”), journeys there in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. In the company of expatriate Aiden (Taylor Kinney of “Chicago Fire”), Sara enters the forest having been well warned to “stay on the path.”

Determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate, Sara will have to face the angry and tormented souls of the dead that prey on anyone who dares come near them.

As Jason Zada’s low-key horror creeps closer and closer to release, the studio has conjured up a new poster and blood-curdling trailer for The Forest, which sends Game of Thrones starlet Natalie Dormer on a harrowing search for answers.

Situated in the very real – and very terrifying – plains of Japan’s Aokigahara forest, Dormer toplines the psychological thriller as Sara, a young American woman who throws caution to the wind in order to venture into the titular forest in search for her missing sibling. Allowing ignorance to get the better of her, Sara soon finds herself caught amid the Sea of Trees without a hope or a prayer, and if Japanese folklore is anything to go by, Aokigahara isn’t the kind of environment befitting of an overnight stay.

Taking a brief hiatus from HBO’s fantasy epic, not to mention her recent turn in Lionsgate’s trilogy-capper Mockingjay...

New international The Forest trailer and poster revealed Gramercy Pictures (via Empire) has released the new The Forest quad poster and trailer for the supernatural thriller starring Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones,” The Hunger Games) and directed by Jason Zada. The movie was based on an original idea by David S. Goyer and filmed on location in Tokyo, Japan and…

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In the upcoming thriller The Forest, we follow a young woman by the name of Sara (Natalie Dormer) as she heads into the Suicide Mountains of the Aokigahara Forest in Japan to find her twin sister who mysteriously disappeared there. Dormer co-stars in The Forest with Taylor Kinney and the film was helmed by up-and-coming director Jason Zada.

Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with one of The Forest’s producers, David S. Goyer, who has worked on countless genre-related projects over the years including Dark City, the Blade series, Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, as well as both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. During our chat, Goyer discussed the inspirations behind the story and the feel of The Forest, his confidence in first-time feature filmmaker Zada, and more.

Look for The Forest in theaters nationwide on January 8th, 2016 courtesy of Gramercy Pictures.

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Win a trip to Japan courtesy of Focus Features and The Forest. Director Jason Zada’s Natalie Dormer-starring “Suicide Forest” thriller The Forest opens on January 8th and to get future fans excited Focus Features has launched a contest to send one lucky winner and a guest to Japan, the setting for the new supernatural horror…

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After spending close to four seasons in the political cauldron that HBO calls Game of Thrones – not to mention toppling a tyrannical dictator in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games franchise – Natalie Dormer would be forgiven for wanting to cleanse her palette with a breezy rom-com, but low and behold, the actress is filling her brief hiatus from the aforementioned fantasy juggernaut with The Forest, an upcoming low-key horror film centered around Japan’s infamous Aokigahara Forest.

Often referred to as the suicide forest or the Sea of Tress, Aokigahara has a long and storied history in Japanese folklore, and such an eerie lore is fertile ground for any filmmaker, including Jason Zada. He’s behind the lens for Dormer’s foray into the genre, telling the tale of a young American woman named Sara who ventures in to Aokigahara to find her missing sister. That’s despite the fact that...

Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer plays a woman seeking her sister amidst a wicked wilderness in The Forest. Ahead of the film's January 8th release from Gramercy Pictures, an engrossing new motion poster has been revealed, along with several stills from the upcoming horror movie.

"Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller. A young American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer of “Game of Thrones” and “The Hunger Games”), journeys there in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. In the company of expatriate Aiden (Taylor Kinney of “Chicago Fire”), Sara enters the forest having been well warned to “stay on the path.” Determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate, Sara will have to face the angry and tormented souls of the dead that prey on anyone who dares come near them.

Follow Natalie Dormer on a terrifying journey through The Forest in this exclusive Motion Poster.

Rising with terrifying grandeur at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, the legendary real-life Aokigahara Forest is the suspense-filled setting of the supernatural thriller.

A young American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer of “Game of Thrones” and “The Hunger Games”), journeys there in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. In the company of expatriate Aiden (Taylor Kinney of “Chicago Fire”), Sara enters the forest having been well warned to “stay on the path.”

Determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate, Sara will have to face the angry and tormented souls of the dead that prey on anyone who dares come near them. These malevolent spirits lying in wait for Sara at every turn will plunge her into a frightening darkness from which she must fight to save herself.

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New motion poster of Natalie Dormer thriller The Forest. We’ve been talking about the new Jason Zada-directed, Natalie Dormer-starring “Suicide Forest” shocker The Forest for months and today, Focus Features gave us a peek at their eerie new promotional “motion poster”. Have a look: Here’s the film’s official synopsis: Rising with terrifying grandeur at the…

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