In A Violent Nature (Chris Nash, 2024) • Page 5

Yeah this really came all together in the final third. Really liked it

 

incredible film

 

Mostly loved this but the acting and dialogue were bad bad, not good bad. I LOLed at the line about his soul being trapped by the amulet or whatever silly shit that was.

I feel like the movie couldn’t decide if it wanted to go the “he’s just an animal force” theme from the ending monologue or the “he has a very specific origin story” route, doing both is kinda dumb.

 

this is awkward

 

Nah it’s cool

 

This is definitely not a movie for everyone so I think that’s a fair takeaway. That being said, I think it’s much more about what it’s emulating than whether or not it’s doing it bad-bad or good-bad. I think it nails the campy slasher aesthetic with some cornball dialogue and some cornball origin but it does it all from such a unique perspective that I find it easy to overlook any mixed signals at the end. It’s my favorite horror movie of the year so far but I also don’t expect everyone to love it.

 

Thought this ruled. Pleasantly surprised.

 

Now watching

 

This rules and is very funny so far. I feel like a lot of people (in general, not in here) are missing what tone the movie is shooting for. Very fun stuff

 

Will I wind up teaching this next year? Maybe!

 

It is crazy how many people I follow on LB that missed the point on this one. People seem to be grasping so hard at the idea that the director wants to be “above” horror and to make an art film or whatever. No he doesn’t! He very clearly is having fun in the slasher sandbox from a relatively new angle, while giving genre fans more than enough of what they want.

 

The last car scene (f132 cameo!) goes on too long, but it is also pretty funny. The “deep” metaphor about killing because it’s in something’s nature is undercut by the corny necklace hallucination in the first part of the film. Johnny has a purpose, he isn’t a mindless killing machine, and the “final girl” or whatever is going to live in fear like Tony Soprano the rest of her life even though he has gone back to his grave in the forrest.

 

Yeah, I think time will be kind to this one. Glad you enjoyed it!

 

Hell ya

 

This was a lot of fun, really liked it

 

Watched it last night. Some really wild stuff about the making of the film.

 

Dead Meat really my favorite YouTube channel and this Kill Count was super well done. Love that James left it uncensored too.