If you're a horror fanatic, and your hobby is attending world premieres at bizarre and eccentric genre festivals, you regularly encounter misfires or even downright bad movies. It's inevitable. The trick is to be mild and open-minded, and to look for a few inventive ideas and brief highlights in each film. That usually works when you're an overall tolerant person, ... except in the case of "In A Violent Nature". This film is just irredeemably and infuriatingly awful.
Apparently, writer/director Chris Nash had the brilliant (on paper, perhaps) idea to make a raw back-to-basics 'killer in the woods' slasher movie, but - and here it comes - from the perspective of the heavily disfigured, intellectually underdeveloped, and undead killer. Now, I know what you're thinking. "That actually sounds quite cool". Well, no. Be mindful the gimmick means you're basically just watching how a freak endlessly walks through the woods, makes circles around the cabin, and gazes at teens around the campfire. And I do mean endlessly! 75-80% of the running time is not an exaggeration. The remaining 20% is even duller, though. Old ladies nagging about bears, dumb kids remaining at the massacre site instead of running as far away as possible, and idiotic Rangers staring at the temporarily beaten body of the psycho instead of shooting it full of bullets or hacking it up to pieces.
The only reason why I give one extra point is because there are a handful of creative and excessively gore massacres. Notably the industrial lumberjack-device kill and the sequence in which a poor girl's head is pulled through her own stomach via a meat hook (don't ask...) are impressive. The supreme make-up effects shouldn't come as a surprise since Chris Nash previously worked as effect wizard for films like "Psycho Goreman" and "The Void". He should continue this line of work, and never ever attempt to write or direct another movie himself.
Apparently, writer/director Chris Nash had the brilliant (on paper, perhaps) idea to make a raw back-to-basics 'killer in the woods' slasher movie, but - and here it comes - from the perspective of the heavily disfigured, intellectually underdeveloped, and undead killer. Now, I know what you're thinking. "That actually sounds quite cool". Well, no. Be mindful the gimmick means you're basically just watching how a freak endlessly walks through the woods, makes circles around the cabin, and gazes at teens around the campfire. And I do mean endlessly! 75-80% of the running time is not an exaggeration. The remaining 20% is even duller, though. Old ladies nagging about bears, dumb kids remaining at the massacre site instead of running as far away as possible, and idiotic Rangers staring at the temporarily beaten body of the psycho instead of shooting it full of bullets or hacking it up to pieces.
The only reason why I give one extra point is because there are a handful of creative and excessively gore massacres. Notably the industrial lumberjack-device kill and the sequence in which a poor girl's head is pulled through her own stomach via a meat hook (don't ask...) are impressive. The supreme make-up effects shouldn't come as a surprise since Chris Nash previously worked as effect wizard for films like "Psycho Goreman" and "The Void". He should continue this line of work, and never ever attempt to write or direct another movie himself.