SeriesWitchcraft & Occult Found Footage Supernatural

Welcome to the Occult Forest2022

Name: Welcome to the Occult Forest
Genre: Witchcraft & Occult, Found Footage, Supernatural, Psychological
Released: 2022-07-22
Rating: 6.5

Created by Koji Shiraishi

6.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 7.1TMDB 7.8

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Year

2022

Seasons

Network

WOWOW Prime

Status

Ended

The premise

A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi (played by Kôji Shiraishi) and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.

Horror Vault's take

A down-and-out horror director sees a second chance at relevance when a disturbed woman in a remote mountain house claims she's living through the very terrors he once put on screen. Dragging along his assistant, a quirky volunteer, and a self-proclaimed psychic medium, he begins documenting the strange and deeply unsettling events unfolding around them. What starts as an opportunistic filmmaking venture quickly blurs the line between subject and filmmaker, observer and victim. This Japanese series melds deadpan comedy with creeping dread in ways that are hard to shake.

Content: Depictions Of Mental Illness, Occult Themes, Disturbing Imagery, Psychological Distress