In A Violent Nature

I have rarely seen a more appropriate title.

It is violent and there is nature, what more could you ask for? Funny to think it took this damn long since the slasher trend began in the late 70s to just have a film all from the perspective of the killer themselves, and I thought it worked beautifully. There's not much plot but that's because you're looking from the other side of the mirror, with this undead brick shithouse of a man rising from his grave to retrieve a stolen locket from your typical group of teenagers. But aside from the base premise itself, there's just no other horror movie even slightly like it. In fact I found it to be extremely calming at times, almost constantly surrounded by the sights and sounds of nature interspersed with some gnarly ass kills, it was surprisingly up my alley. It takes it's sweet time and if you got a short attention span you better lock the hell in or give up now, for a movie just a bit over 90 minutes it ain't rushing! There's a lot of long takes and sitting shots, liberal use of wide shots that stick around for a bit, it just has this laid back feel to it which is an odd ass word to describe a slaher film! Hell there's not even a soundtrack, there's three songs all diegetic to the movie that the characters are listening to, beyond that just take in the sounds of nature. I really digged the shit out of this movie and because of the way it was produced and directed, when it came to the kills I was curious and impressed at how they pulled it off, some are more edited but others I'm just wondering if they hacked one of the actors stone dead forever. That's movie magic right there! Again, very simple premise, not a lot of cast, extensive natural locations, it was even made by the same companies as Good Boy with both IFC and Shudder having a hand in it all. That is a coincidence, but as one trained in the Force I know that true coincidences are rare. It's not a modern masterpiece but a very good film it is and I'm kinda curious to look into the sequel at a later period in time. 4 stars from me, 8/10, we got one more for the week so stay tuned.