Midnight Screenings - The Forest

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Brad and Brian review the horror film "The Forest."

[@SteveSmith-rt7wx]

"You know what month it is Jay?" "Oh my god, it's Fuck You, It's January!"

[@Pigeonstatue4232]

Brad's alarm going off was a more effective jump scare than anything in this movie

[@KaitlynMutt]

The sad part is that there actually is a Japanese urban legend about a town hidden far in the mountains where the Constitution of Japan doesn't apply. Supposedly, the people there engage in incest, cannibalism, all that horror movie fodder shit. If they'd just gone with that, then they at least wouldn't be offending the real people who commit suicide in that actual forest.

[@starwarsnerd100]

+KC I find the idea that the "Japanese Constitution" prevents incest and cannibalism hilarious. Like, most countries would just have regular old laws preventing that stuff, but apparently Japan has such a huge cannibalism problem they have to specifically mention it in their founding document??? Like, imagine if the US Constitution, in addition to saying all the stuff congress can and can't do, said "By the way, MURDER IS ILLEGAL!"

[@Vanalovan]

+starwarsnerd100 ... I think KC was just making the point that the village is off the grid

[@starwarsnerd100]

Vanalovan I know, I just found the idea humorous

[@KaitlynMutt]

+starwarsnerd100 Don't bully me! It's an urban legend! Why wouldn't it not make sense!? The one about the killer with the hook hand is stupid too. I'm just saying it would have been more socially acceptable as a horror movie plot. :'c

[@starwarsnerd100]

KC lol dude I just thought it was funny

[@SsnakeBite]

I find it kind of amazing that so many American horror directors who are supposedly influenced by Japanese horror or who adapt Japanese horror movies fail to understand that the reason Japanese horror movies work is because they rely heavily on atmosphere, subtlety and character development and DON'T have fucking jump scares every twelve seconds.

[@charlottecorday8494]

It's almost like Americans aren't that intelligent....

[@geoffreypeterson8903]

Ah, January - the mass grave of movie releases.

[@trevorhensley3185]

I love how Brian's always rocking something nerdy on his shirts.

[@TheZipperDragon]

Book of Shadows: Woman in Black 2: Ghosts of Georgia Best movie title ever

[@NapoleonWinston]

See, the forest that The Forest is based on isn't some ancient legend. I don't know if it's played that way in the movie proper, but in real life about a hundred people a year kill themselves in that forest. Suicide is a big problem in japan and to turn that tragic place into OH MY GOD SPOOPY GHOSTS!!! fodder seems in bad taste??

[@StonedGremlinProductions]

+Amelia Blank We mention that in the video, so we do know what the suicide forest is. In terms of it being in bad taste, yeah probably, but given that I've seen about 50 nazisploitation movies in my life, that thought didn't really occur to me.

[@NapoleonWinston]

Hmm. That's true. >< Lol. I dunno, I suppose you could make a horror movie about it but....a uh, good one????

[@lich109]

+Stoned Gremlin Productions At the same time, while I'm not offended, I can see why people would be considering that this is an ongoing problem. I mean there's got to be thousands of people related to those who committed suicide, and now this movie comes along to say that their dead friends/family are trying to murder other people.

[@Xonlic14]

+Amelia Blank Living over here, I can assure you, this is equally tasteful to how the locals peddle the idea. Love the Japanese culture but they do tend to roll their culture into glorious tales, I doubt this would considered disrespectful due to it's ghost angle. At least, from citizens of japan. Internet folk might take offense to it.

[@argondrolf785]

+Amelia Blank I think a psycological horror story like jacob's ladder would work in a setting like the suicide forest. perhaps an eerie movie where a man has to fight his inner demons in order to prevent himself from committing suicide? i think that would be cool

[@DeniseFaraday]

The review is more entertaining than the actual movie LOL

[@Kopers30]

I apologize if you hear this all the god damn time, but holy hell the dude on the left sounds like Seth Rogen.

[@StonedGremlinProductions]

+Kopers30 I made a movie a few years ago called The Hooker with a Heart of Gold, where Brian plays a character named Dr. Rogen.

[@thewraithwriter22]

+Kopers30 I never thought about that before. BUT NOW I CAN'T UNHEAR IT. Shit, capslock got stuck again.

[@rynelliott6925]

Freddie Prinze, Jr. is actually having a decent run as a voice actor for Bioware games. It's miles ahead of any of his film work.

[@AlexOlinkiewicz]

I instantly knew this movie was gonna suck, when the trailer showed an American woman coming to Japan. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but rather then having a Japanese person be the main character, they had to throw in some lazy plot to get an american person to come to Japan just so we have an excuse to why everyone is speaking English in the film.

[@SilverFireworks]

+Alex Olinkiewicz (olinkalex) I honestly didn't mind an American woman being the focus of the movie since some of the Forest's legends mention it drawing people to it so I think it kinda fits that it can draw foreigners in as well. What really pissed me off was that the guide was white too.

[@henriqueeufrasiofarias1356]

+Saya Snark its an american movie you two

[@AlexOlinkiewicz]

Saya Snark Yeah, honestly I wouldn't mind ether if the movie is good, but I've seen some bad films that kind of use that plot point (example: Darkest Hour). So seeing that in the trailer, gave a bit of a bad sign, plus the rest of the trailer was very cliche, and of course January release Horror film.

[@evawind3566]

I looked up The Forest in Amazon and there is another movie with the same name from 1981. Slasher film with cannibalism.

[@troin3925]

Eva Wind Huh, the game of the same name has cannibals (though, they’re actually mutants).

[@AussieDragoon]

We need some *worst of 2015* lists, bro.

[@DeniseFaraday]

+AussieDragoon I'm surprised they haven't posted the videos yet....

[@TheAxelBach]

Normally Brad waits till much later in January or maybe February so he's sure he's seen enough "must see" movies from 2015.

[@harley-wp6xt]

The double facepalm is always a good sign.

[@MoteofLobross]

This movie pisses me off due to it capitalizing on a real place where real people take their own lives at a scarily unprecedented rate

[@Arthaslepeureux]

+Mutt They should instead do like Kubrick, take a real haunted place and inspire it to make your OWN haunted field. In The Shining, the main vilain is the Overlook Hotel. They could have create their own fictional haunted forest, film it in a japanese forest and not a serbian forest and make the moviie ULTRA SCARY. Not with jumpscare that are so predictable that they are like this: 3 2 1 BOUHhhhhhh !!!!!!!!

[@AngeliqueStP]

+Mutt Agreed.... it is pretty tasteless. Reminds me of those assholes who, when making a zombie movie, decided to use SARS as their origin for it. Yeesh - Stay Classy Guys

[@Dill_Pickle5760]

This movie didn't look very good, so I'm not surprised they didn't like it.

[@captcrais101]

Freddie is doing voice acting as the Jedi in Star Wars Rebels animated series

[@culwin]

I thought this was the long-awaited sequel to Forest Gump.

[@redactedredacted6656]

Honestly, that would have been much better than this January horror movie.

[@SteveJonesGamingGWO]

The thumbnail mixed with the opening lines told me all I needed to know

[@TheFreakyFanatic]

As soon as I saw a trailer for this my first thought was. "Fucking January horror films."

[@rosenrot234]

18:50 Pffft. I've had suicidal moments in my life but that still got me to laugh. As for pets mauling the shit out of you, I have pet rats. Sometimes I'm a lazy shit and don't clip their nails right away. So there's been a few times one of them crawled on my arm, slipped, then dug into my arm so they wouldn't fall. Heck even when this happened I wasn't mad at them. Still have some scars on my hand though. And of course rats have to be giant cuddle bugs when they know they hurt you by accident. So it was a very adorable accident.

[@tonym.8069]

rosenrot234 do not get why rats get a bad rap still nowadays, to me rats and mice should get as much love as their distant cousins, hares and rabbits, but everyone or most in the West just think of them as what caused major plagues centuries ago.

[@letitbeknownthatidontknow5277]

This is the movie that inspired the Logan Paul video

[@ding9916]

There was a Woman in Black 2?? One words comes to mind; Why?

[@WTFisTingispingis]

People who include snippets of the fucking ending in trailers need to lose their goddamn job.

[@sugarfrosted2005]

+AtticWarrior1994 Funny, I say the same thing about sound editors that use the Wilhelm Scream.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

+sugarfrosted You take that back, I love that sound.

[@sugarfrosted2005]

+AtticWarrior1994 I'm sorry, it's just suspension of disbelief cyanide to me. I hear it an consciously actively remember it's a movie. It's legit the reason I can't watch a new hope.

[@user36able]

Ooh I just thought of a twist - her twin sister actually died when their parents did, when they were children. So that's why she never asks anyone "have you seen - me?" because that would force her to confront that she has been living as both people to avoid the grief of losing her entire family to murder-suicide. The movie's plot begins because she has decided to take her life, but that sends her into turmoil because she would be killing both herself and her sister (who remains in her mind) and she doesn't want to be a murderer, like her father. She can't carry on living the way she has, but she also can't kill herself without murdering the last traces of her sister. And she can't seperate the two because that would mean admitting that her sister died a long time ago, and that would mean facing the trauma of losing her family.

[@thetalkingbear]

I haven't seen very many PG-13 horror movies that were very good.

[@miraprime474]

Wow, Brad, I haven't thought about Ruthless People in a long time. I'm gonna have to hunt down a copy to see if its as good as I remember.

[@Ike_of_pyke]

Prince is doing the older lead in the new star wars TV series rebels

[@waspinator9204]

Ehhh, yeah...I think I'll stick the the video game "The Forest", it's at least got deformed, half-naked cannibals that crawl out of the caves at night to rip you apart in a way that doesn't involve jumping out of the edge of the screen going "BOOGITY BOOGITY BOO!" (Plus, it's basically a modern "Cannibal Holocaust, The Game", and without any of that Eli roth shit.)

[@bootleg317]

This film's trailers really gave off a strong "The Apparition" vibe, the ugly green/brown tint to everything, both trailers including the girl whispering that it's not real, ghoulish arms pulling down the girl, etc.

[@bootleg317]

+Uncle Bootleg Just got to that point in the video. FUCKING CALLED IT!

[@FancyRPGCanada]

Freddie Prinze Jr. is going the Mark Hammill route and becoming a pretty darn good voice actor. One of his most recent big roles was as Iron Bull in Dragon Age Inquisition.

[@AschenDog]

I have an almost three inch scar on my arm. I was holding a cat when someone shot the hose at the window and spooked it.

[@Arthaslepeureux]

The Forest, a movie so predicable that the jumpscare are like that 3 2 1 BOUH !!!!

[@Ersanven]

Freddie Prince Jr is acting in Bioware video games these days.

[@SteveSmith-rt7wx]

Isn't he also in the Star Wars: Rebels cartoon?

[@JohnnyBurnes]

+Ersanven I knew he was in Mass Effect 3, but when I realized who he played, I was pleasantly surprised! He did a great job, and actually made me laugh when talking about dinosaurs. I heard he was also one of the best parts of Dragon Age: Inquisition, but I haven't played that yet. I'm glad he's improved. I actually look forward to seeing his name now.

[@CommanderZx2]

I miss Brian, wish he was in more videos.

[@HeSheXie]

Why would any screenwriter look at the tragedy of Aokigahara and think you need to add ghosts to that? This premise have been a really terrifying plot about romanticizing suicide and mental illness, and instead they made it... well, a January horror film.

horror movie released at the best time to do so January

[@Burori1]

Freddy Prince Jr.'s voicing a Jedi in the Star Wars Rebels show : O

[@lotus-prince]

In fairness, from what I've heard, people who live in that area would likely know about the suicide forest, and people who go through the forest usually do kill themselves there. That's kind of the place to do it, for whatever reason. Yeah, people jump off of bridges, but we don't really have a "suicide bridge" here, so no one would expect everyone to jump off of the Golden Gate Bridge, for example. This, however, actually IS a suicide forest, so if you're going in there, it's probably only for one reason. That said, I saw the trailer for this movie, and it was jumpy and overly dark, and then it ends with "PG-13." Oh. Oh, okay. This is going to be good, for sure.

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

Yeah, that's what they said.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

What infuriates me is the fact the Suicide Forests are a concept you can do some haunting stuff with, and you blow it with this nonsense. Goddamnit movie people.

[@lotus-prince]

+FiftyFootMidget Oh, wow, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the info!

[@lotus-prince]

+AtticWarrior1994 That's true, but as this is a real place and people really kill themselves there, making it a ghost story (especially coming from a non-Japanese perspective) seems like a bad idea. I'd stick with the "this is just plain creepy" kind of haunting.

[@PoeticFox]

+Lotus Prince we do have a suicide bridge in the U.S. if you live here...its called the golden gate

[@tylerlivingston2637]

I honestly didn't mind this movie. I think it's mostly because we got a movie completely different than what I was expecting from the trailers.

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

Pretty weak defense of a shitty movie.....

[@Phoneybeetlemaniacxs]

Following is a good film as is memento as has key ingredient a good script and filmmaking

[@583DegreesOfGaming]

I remember after that intro, my friend, who was adamant about seeing this movie and dragged me to it, leaned over to me and said "I think I've made a terrible mistake"

[@wellthatwaswierd4570]

Oddest part of the real life forest this is based on is, it didn't start happening with regularity or in such numbers until an author wrote a book (published in 1966) about 2 lovers who go to the forest to commit suicide. After the books publication and subsequent popularity, people began going to the forest in DROVES to commit suicide. That, to me, is waaay eerier than any 'Oooh spoooooky ghoooosts! Boooo!' type movie.

[@hazyhillsblue]

Is this the one that Gus Van Sant made?

[@TheZipperDragon]

DAMN IT JUSTIN LONG! You had ONE JOB!!!

[@JohnnyBurnes]

+TheZipperDragon BE A WALRUS!

[@TheZipperDragon]

Johnny Burnes HA! Tusk...

[@CamPopplestone]

January I believe gets the horror crap now because they are usually pretty cheap to produce and January is generally where the box office shows down, so they can dump a cheap horror flick and still turn profit.

[@BatesKrisbates]

2:50 Maybe a sequel to Freak Out?

[@patadams7282]

For a january horror movie, I honestly think this could have been a lot worse. With Natalie Dormer, it was actually slightly better than I expected.

[@Cole91365]

Who’s nick

[@Dboy21ish]

ok ok her is where I thought she campes out on black Fuji ko mountain.

[@HAISPAM]

What pisses me off most about this movie is the fact that the poster is based off of an IRL photo of one of the victims. They're turning actual gore into this film's fucking marketing.

[@AcidicAlpha]

Through this whole video It sounds there's a guy just off camera grilling.

[@Horrorfreak106]

There was this girl in one of my classes at school and saw the trailer for this movie and literally screamed and jumped out of her seat when the obvious "ghost turns around and says boo!" scene happened. Like really? How the fuck did you get scared by that? It was so obvious that it was going to happen that even the music stopped playing in the background so that it can tell the audience that something "spooky" was going to happen. I can't stand those type of teenage girls, so fucking easy to scare and don't know what a good horror movie is.

[@EUMAN10]

Is it bad that I actually found the Japanese girl in the cave creepy when she was a monster?

[@pencilCasey000]

This movie was extremely in bad taste. Turning a sad thing, a forest where people go to kill themselves, into "oooooo spooky ghosts!!!" People are still killing themselves there, and it's all a tragedy, not a spooky ghost story...

[@TheZipperDragon]

They forgot the best part of the movie. THE JUMPSCARE ENDING THAT'S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE! Seriously....Fuck modern movies.

[@spookyrosev6467]

Also apparently "based on a true story" means "found a spooky forest on Wikipedia and a Vice documentary" (not joking) according to the film makers. I mean okay I can buy that some American (not whitewashed half-Asian) tourist mysteriously died in the forest ,but clearly that didn't happened.

[@Nocturnalux]

I'm surprised they managed to actually film at the Sea of Trees. I know Japanese authorities are less than happy about granting filming licenses there as it fetishes the place even further...then again Hard Gay managed to shoot an episode there so maybe not so much.

[@thefdvproduction]

I wanna be a filmmaker but I feel it's a bad omen that I was born in January

[@devinbell4816]

David Lynch was born in January, soooo.....

[@thefdvproduction]

Ah! Thank you for telling me that. Everything weighs itself out

[@bluchicken_995]

The forest 2: the logang invasion

[@joshuasutton9366]

Spoilers dudes...damn...you just ruined this movie for me and now I can't see it....thank you sirs.

[@aiberlane3390]

I'm going to take a wild guess here and and say all the stars are white. Because we NEVER have stories set in Asia starring Asians, since apparently Americans are scared away from movies starring Asians.

[@bijanthegr91]

First off: Ghost Nick is probably still waiting for you guys, not realizing he is dead, some friends you are! Jerks...But for real Brad, welcome to 2016 and hoping for more hilarity :) I figured this movie would be bad...mostly because of American track record for doing Japanese horror adaptions don't pan out that well, if at all...And I am going to assume they didn't even film on location, because Aokigahara or Suicide Forest is actually more very eerie and truly more spine-tingling than any film could accurately portray. Like Amelia Blank said, this movie seems pretty tasteless and shows how insensitive American filmmakers view Suicide in Japan. Though the forest maybe haunted, but that's not WHAT THE FUCKING FOREST IS KNOWN FOR! It's a traditional place when Japanese civilians commit suicide, why would they turn this place into another ripoff of Paranormal activity/Apparition? I don't think Ghosts actually kill people, they can scare the shit out of you, but not make you commit suicide...So from what I gather, this was just a bad premise with good actors...Yeah I'll leave at that. So Here's to the new set of stupid horror films to come, cheers mate :)

[@troin3925]

Bijan Hakimian The movie might as well go the curse route to explain the constant suicides, it’d be just as tasteful as this.

[@redactedredacted6656]

2nd recent shitty movie to have a flashback that doesn't make sense and set before the characters were alive.

[@proxyanon564]

Darn. I was really hoping this movie would be good. I'm into Japanese culture, so this could have been so good if handled respectfully and written well, but based on what they're saying, it sounds like a heaping helping of wasted potential.

[@xMewWinx96x]

To be honest, the only reason I heard about this film was because there were a bunch of SJW on Tumblr bitching about how this film was white washing and nothing else.

[@nomduclavier]

Cat-owners are so blase about their pets hurting them? Like dogs hurt you accidentally when they're puppies then learn better control

[@StonedGremlinProductions]

My cats like play biting and rough housing, like a lot of cats do. My cats aren't biting out of anger. Also adult dogs can still bite, I've seen it, numerous times.

[@fadeblac5633]

Hey I liked The Grudge. Lol.... this movie Yes was crap!!!