‘In a Violent Nature’ Review — Eat Your Heart Out, Jason Voorhees

You’ve never seen a horror film like writer-director Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature.

While it perhaps shares an eventually similar sense of madcap energy to other recent Shudder offerings like When Evil Lurks, its unique formal approach and gruesome kills put it in a class all its own.

Where 2023 was a strong one for festival horror emerging as the year’s best, with everything from birth/rebirth to Talk to Me leaving their mark on the genre long after their Sundance premieres, 2024 now has an early contender of its own with In a Violent Nature.