A group of rowdy teens party in a secluded cabin in the woods, only to be systematically and grotesquely killed off by a masked murderer. Sounds familiar, right? Well, “ In a Violent Nature ” switches things up from classic horror formula. It firmly plants the camera behind the slow, methodical Johnny, an undead, vengeful killer, as he stomps through the Canadian wilderness and mutilates the campers one by one.
Half “Friday the 13th” slasher and half David Attenborough nature documentary, “In a Violent Nature” is unlike any other horror movie and has one of the top contenders for best kill of the year. Directed by Chris Nash , “In a Violent Nature” filmed in a remote region of Northern Ontario — so remote that it would take upwards of 30 minutes to hike to set. “To my producers’ chagrin, I’m always like, ‘No, it takes place in the middle of nowhere, so we have to go into the middle of nowhere.
We have to make our days so much longer than they need to be,'” Nash, who scouted locations near his hometown, tells Variety . One of the most idyllic locations also features the film’s most stomach-churning death: the yoga kill. One of the campers, Aurora (Charlotte Creaghan), ventures off alone to do some high-altitude yoga on a cliffside when Johnny targets her as his next unlucky victim.
In a gore-tastic sequence, Johnny disembowels Aurora with his trusty, rusty hook, then yanks her head backwards through the gaping hole in her stomach. Johnny kicks the.
