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- 2024 · Horror · 1h 34m
May 31, 2024 · In a Violent Nature. The most fascinating thing about Chris Nash's hyperviolent slasher experiment "In a Violent Nature" is that it's not scary. At least, not in the way that the "Friday the 13th"-esque splatter flicks he's clearly riffing on used to be.
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As single-mindedly focused on mayhem as its demonic monster, In a Violent Nature serves up a deliciously disgusting feast for gore aficionados. Read Critics Reviews
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By Michael Calabro
Updated: Jan 27, 2024 4:56 pm
Posted: Jan 27, 2024 4:47 pm
With In a Violent Nature, director Chris Nash takes everything we love about low-budget ’80s slashers – practically shot, extremely gory deaths; unsettling, lingering wide shots; and horrifying masks with interesting real-world histories – and completely disembowels the subgenre. Nash violently pulls out the slasher film’s heart – the undead and unstoppable killer – and puts it front and center.
For this movie’s practical effects to really stand out, Nash and team needed to equip their killer with some iconic weapons. Johnny doesn’t disappoint: He wields a hatchet and a pair of drag hooks – tools of the men who murdered him – for some truly heinous, unpredictable kills. There’s one in particular, where Johnny uses his drag hooks on an unsuspecting victim, that reaches Mortal Kombat-fatality levels of carnage. (I dare you not to think “FINISH HER!” while watching this scene.) The best slashers use their kills not only for shock value, but also for humor, and In a Violent Nature relishes in its macabre laughs. At one point, Johnny bludgeons a victim for a comically long time – I’m talking minutes.
In a Violent Nature relishes in its macabre laughs.
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In a Violent Nature is a low-budget slasher, and uses its limited resources to maximum effect. Most of the film is composed of jump cuts between medium shots trailing Johnny walking through the woods, and if you’ve played the killer in an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game like Death by Daylight or Friday the 13th, you know the shot. But it’s refreshing to see Nash and cinematographer Pierce Derks add to this template by using the camera to drip-feed the audience different angles of Johnny’s disfigured appearance. The reveals of Johnny are slow and deliberately paced, but that’s a good thing because there’s not much else in In a Violent Nature that can hold the audience’s attention between kills.
Once Johnny acquires a mask – it’s inspired by 19th-century firefighting gear, but looks like a a cross between an old-timey deep sea diver’s helmet and a gas mask from World War I – Nash and Derks pivot to a more free-roaming camera that’s employed to capture kills from a variety of creative vantage points. A budget as small as In a Violent Nature’s doesn’t allow for a ton of camera setups, and Nash and Derks turn this potential constraint into a strength. The resulting shots are long, and their “can’t look away” nature is put to truly haunting effect.
Since the movie is told from the perspective of a mute, undead killer, we only hear dialogue when Johnny is within earshot of potential victims. What little conversation we get from the cannon fodder is reserved for Johnny’s backstory or snippets of the young people laughing and bickering, unaware that their time on Earth is almost up. Like the plot, none of this detracts from In a Violent Nature – but, outside of exposition, it doesn’t add anything either.
In a Violent Nature is an expertly executed riff on the slasher genre that is sure to be one of the year’s stand-out horror releases. While it lacks in the story and character department, none of that meaningfully takes away from the overall experience. However, if you’re here for copious amounts of practical splatter, Johnny and his drag hooks rea...
- Michael Calabro
May 30, 2024 · A spartan plot involving an abusive childhood and a stolen locket provides Johnny’s motivation, but “In a Violent Nature” is more partial to atmosphere than narrative.
May 30, 2024 · In a Violent Nature is a slasher film designed, as most slasher films are, to unsettle and distress. It follows a group of teenagers who unintentionally disturb a grave, awaken a monster,...
