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Film Review - In a Violent Nature

Film Review - In a Violent Nature

Chris Nash chin-strokes about animalistic nihilism between brutal kills in his stark, stripped-down slasher. Should we be impressed?

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Jul 12, 2024
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Credit: IFC Films/Shudder

Should slasher films self-consciously strive to be art? Or are they better off rendered Hollywood-style, in the likes of Halloween (1978) or Friday the 13th (1980)? That was the question preoccupying my mind whilst watching Chris Nash’s minimal, stripped-down, deliberately paced, albeit gruesomely nasty horror flick In a Violent…

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