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College student Maiko journeys to Japan’s infamous “Suicide Forest” (gorgeous British Columbia, Canada unconvincingly filling in) along with her friends to honor her mother who took her life there a couple weeks ago. There’s a ceremony to perform to allow her mother’s soul to move on into the afterlife and she has it in her head that she needs to perform it. Her friends decide this is great material for a documentary thesis and invite along another dope to film everything. A hiker (Hiro Kanagawa) warns them they should leave and let the dead rest in peace but nobody ever listens to mysterious hikers. Maiko has dreams about her biological mother and a creepy Asian ghost girl which is why she is determined to make this trip and put things to rest. There’s also a photo of a tree that sent to her along with some keepsakes and it just so happens the hiker knows where this tree may be. How fortuitous! A couple fellow college students play a prank on them because humans are awful and it’s Halloween and man there’s a whole bunch of white people in Japan at this location. Helpful hiker doesn’t like that these derps are mocking the spirits. These derps behave accordingly and don’t really give a shit. Technical malfunctions and voices on the wind arrive soon after along with some ghostly visions of suicide victims visited upon our hero. The prankster dopes go off on their own and come across an abandoned campsite with plenty of creepy shit strewn about. When lead idiot investigates he finds a Rolex and takes it. Come on, now. Fuckin’ dink. Now the spirits are angry, especially the dirty lookin’ ghost lady creeping around the woods. The authorities find our documentary team and kick the “kids” out after the cameraman slips them an SD card claiming it to be the footage they have shot in the woods. It’s not. A missing dip has everyone staying to look and getting lost and separated from each other as the hiker tries to assist with cryptic warnings. A couple get arrested, a couple blunder into fatal accidents and the arrested folks end up being held in a storage spot for recovered corpses while the police rightfully treat them like disrespectful assholes. A mostly cookie cutter plot is littered with uninteresting characters but does offer up some enjoyable supernatural violence and it’s always good to see Kanagawa delivering no matter how lazy the script is. It also finally gets my kind of silly with fifteen minutes left in the runtime.
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