10 Horror Movies That Abandoned Awesome Ideas Halfway Through

Japan's Aokigahara Forest is one of the most haunting locations places known to man - a destination made famous in the most harrowing of fashions by the hundreds of people who have chosen to die by suicide amongst the trees of the sprawling woodland.

While the notion of a horror film based around a real-life area that has gained notoriety as a result of people taking their own lives may justifiably seem misjudged to many, the film's subject matter still presented an intriguing blank canvas for a horror film to potentially take advantage of.

The foreboding and supernatural nature of proceedings means that the first act is actually fairly watchable. Regrettably, director Jason Zada soon throws quite literally every cinematic nuance imaginable out of the window in favour of jump-scares, utterly squandering the eerie atmosphere constructed in the early goings and leaving poor Natalie Dormer to scream maniacally as she runs around the forest like a headless chicken.

For a movie that could have gone in quite literally any direction for its chief source of terror, such lazy filmmaking is legitimately frustrating to watch. As The Forest lumbers drearily on, Zada doesn't even begin bother to explore the nature or origin of the supernatural forces depicted within the movie - let alone the psychological factors at play.

For such contentious subject matter, the least one could have done was produce an effort ultimately worth watching.