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This ultra-gory slasher told from the killer’s perspective has horrific scenes you can coldly admire rather than get excited about

In a Violent Nature puts a clever new twist on the subgenre.

In a Violent Nature might seem like a purely aesthetic exercise. But its experimentation elevates an all-too-familiar genre.

Picture Michael Haneke telling a campfire story to get some sense of what “In a Violent Nature” achieves.

In a Violent Nature is a clever slasher experiment that underdelivers in the story department but more than makes up for it with some clever kills that will be sure to linger long after the credits roll.

Director Chris Nash departs from genre cliches to deliver a fascinatingly different slasher movie in which danger strikes amid the beauty of the great outdoors

Chris Nash's innovative spin on a horror staple boasts an excellent set-up, but falls flat in its final act.

One of the most fascinating, oddly serene horror entries of the year so far, precisely because it flips the mechanics of the slasher on their head.

The debut feature director Chris Nash may use some arthouse devices, but they can’t save his work

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In A Violent Nature Image: IFC Films Ever since Jason Voorhees skulked across Camp Crystal Lake, the slasher has long been obsessed with the aesthetic constraints...

A new take on an old horror-movie genre is part arthouse, part grindhouse — and all heads-being-pulled-through-bloody,-punctured-torsos. See it ASAP!

The slasher genre gets an unexpected twist in the buzzy, immersive bloodbath of “In a Violent Nature.”

Thinks of Chris Nash's 'In a Violent Nature' as Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Camp Crystal Lake.

This naturalistic indie horror is ‘Evil Dead’ meets ‘Planet Earth’

In a Violent Nature puts a clever new twist on the subgenre.

Canadian horror movie puts a fresh coat of paint on genre's conventions.

In a Violent Nature is the most thrilling, terrifying, gross and often quite funny reworking of the slasher genre in ages

In a Violent Nature, a slasher movie told from the point of view of the slasher, is like if Gus Van Sant directed a Friday the 13th sequel.

'In a Violent Nature' takes elements from horror films like 'Halloween' and 'Friday the 13th' and turns them into an original, gory slasher movie.

Borrowing from Gus Van Sant and Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Nash's formally impressive but exasperating debut is a slasher told from the killer's POV.

Chris Nash’s gory debut feature subjects the usual nubile youth to the usual cabin-in-the-woods horror — but with a distinctive shift in perspective.

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A slow-cinema spin on well-burnished tropes, In a Violent Nature largely strips the artifice of the slasher formula, which dictates a deformed man must hunt down attractive teens or young adults in either the woods or suburbia. A film built around a mythology that comes to life, as our killer rises from a grave, Chris