New year’s inaugural horror film breaks January curse. Review by Brandon Wolfe It has become a tradition over the past decade for each new year to commence with the release of a horror movie of deeply questionable merit. These January kick-off films have included a few entries with some moderate, arguable virtues ( Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones , Daybreakers , maybe Texas Chainsaw 3D ), but more often than not, the slot is awarded to scarefests that really stink up an already malodorous month. 2012’s The Devil Inside is perhaps the most quintessential example of January horror at its shoddiest and most ineffective. The message is clear: People are still primarily seeing December releases, everyone has the post-holiday blues and these movies cost virtually nothing to make, so why not toss them out into the barren winter void and hope for a couple of bucks to trickle in? The Forest is this year’s deposit into the January dead zone, but someone neglected to tell its filmmake...