94 minutes – Slasher
Language: English
Festival release date: January 24, 2024 – Sundance
Release date: May 31, 2024
DVD release date: September 24, 2024
Production companies: Shudder Films, Low Sky Productions, Zygote Pictures
Distributor: IFC Films, Shudder

Debuting at Sundance in early 2024, this is an atypical slasher film in many ways, and all of those ways work for this film. A Violent Nature centres on a dead killer, Johnny, accidentally brought back to life in some deeply forested wilderness in Ontario. What makes this film different is the lack of a musical score, the lead character is mute and the action takes place from the killer’s point of view. His first targets are the kids who brought him back from the dead. The back story on Johnny is that he was the developmentally delayed son of a local merchant and was tricked into climbing a fire tower, but someone who was waiting at the top scared him and he fell from the tower to his death. In short, this is a well crafted revenge story. Earlier this year, Variety ranked it the best horror film of the year.