When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 70-year old crime, his body is resurre... Read allWhen a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 70-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it.When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 70-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
J T Jacobs
- Johnny's Dad
- (voice)
- (as Tom Jacobs)
Lauren-Marie Taylor
- The Woman
- (as Lauren Taylor)
Hailey Imany
- Brodie
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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- TriviaIn a 2024 interview with Points of Reviews, Chris Nash spoke about the reason for doing a substantial reshoot: "I would say that we reshot 70% of the film. That number fluctuates depending on my mood, but it's around 70%. We did four weeks of shooting in a completely different location with a different lead actor who succumbed to a medical problem a week and a half into the production. So we had to replace our main "monster man" actor. He's in a costume the entire film, so I thought if we could find somebody the same size, same build, roughly, then we could get away with making the change. But there are so many important things about performance. How they carry themselves, the gait of their walk, the weight of their footfalls; all of that mattered so much. We only realized how much that mattered once we did a rough assembly of those first four weeks and could see the stark differences. They're almost imperceptible until you realize that this is really the entire movie. It's just watching somebody walk and move and studying their behavior. But that was only one of the reasons we felt it necessary to pick up production and start again completely. Another, perhaps more selfish, reason was that I'd always envisioned this to be shot in Northern Ontario using that wilderness. That's where I'm from, and where we were initially shooting didn't have the same feeling. The trees didn't feel the same. Everything felt different and too uncanny for what I wanted. Having the opportunity to reshoot, I was adamant with my producing partners that I would love to return to my hometown and call in every favor I could from every friend and family member. It's not like we had the same budget to work with to get it all done, and luckily, a lot of our crew stuck with us. A lot of our actors stuck with us, and we managed to pull it all together. There is one shot from the original film. It's a five or six-second shot that was included, and it's the most expensive shot in the film by far."
- GoofsIncorrectly identified as an error, when the display cabinet is shown in the ranger station, a small poster uses the Canadian spelling of "amoung". The movie was filmed in Canada.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024)
- SoundtracksLessons Not Learned (The 1980 Damascus Missile Explosion)
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Featured review
In Nature, Occasionally Violent.
If I had to watch one more shot of the killer walking through the forest, a damn field, or some other picturesque landscape I would have sworn I was watching a 3rd person nature documentary.
I don't mind a film being slow for the sake of tension building or for a great payoff (think Jaws, slow but a HUGE payoff) but this was slow and tedious to the point I thought the director was having a joke at the watcher's expense. It genuinely went on for so long or so repetitively at times I particularly thought I was watching a satirical horror movie. Think of that scene in Monte Python and the Holy Grail where they replay the same scene of a knight running towards you over and over.
There were some original kills (credit where credit is due, the overlook kill was fantastic) but to see other reviews saying that it's horrifying, and the most frightening, gory film they've seen makes me question how much horror the reviewers have actually seen.
It's a more ambient Friday the 13th / Jason film and nothing more.
Walking out of the theater, I passed a man who turned to his wife and said, "Well, we'll never get that time back" and he's absolutely right.
I don't mind a film being slow for the sake of tension building or for a great payoff (think Jaws, slow but a HUGE payoff) but this was slow and tedious to the point I thought the director was having a joke at the watcher's expense. It genuinely went on for so long or so repetitively at times I particularly thought I was watching a satirical horror movie. Think of that scene in Monte Python and the Holy Grail where they replay the same scene of a knight running towards you over and over.
There were some original kills (credit where credit is due, the overlook kill was fantastic) but to see other reviews saying that it's horrifying, and the most frightening, gory film they've seen makes me question how much horror the reviewers have actually seen.
It's a more ambient Friday the 13th / Jason film and nothing more.
Walking out of the theater, I passed a man who turned to his wife and said, "Well, we'll never get that time back" and he's absolutely right.
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- May 31, 2024
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- Also known as
- De naturaleza violenta
- Filming locations
- Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada(set locations)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,229,999
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,155,346
- Jun 2, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $4,560,347
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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