In A Violent Nature-- My Take on the Movie with Spoilers

 Plot: Johnny, a vengeful spirit, goes on a killing spree when his locket is stolen.

In a Violent Nature is perhaps the most innovative horror movie to come out in years. Why? Because it tells the story entirely through the eyes of the villain.

We see what the killer sees. We see how he plans his attacks. Towards the end, the viewpoint shifts, and we see what happens to the final girl.

While the take on slasher movies may be interesting, it also gets repetitive.

Our villain does not speak. He only knows violence. And trudging on fields and trampling flowers.

We don't hear him, and only once do we get a glimpse of his scarred and monstrous face.

We also don't get a proper introduction to the victims, which isn't much of a loss considering they fit every stereotype. It's the same with all slasher films and yes, the only survivor is a woman in a tank top although she is wearing a shirt over it.

In a Violent Nature begs to be ingenious in its storytelling but offers only a different perspective on a slasher movie that follows all horror tropes.

IN A VIOLENT NATURE Movie Plot

The movie begins with the sounds of rustling leaves and the voices of people.

There's a necklace hanging from a branch. Someone takes it and is pleased to have found it.

The leaves on the ground shake and a large figure wakes up. We only see his back for some time and see the wounds on the back of his head.

It's obvious that stealing the necklace was not a good idea because that has awakened this hulking man.

He lumbers towards a shed and immediately kills the man who has a shotgun pointed at him. The man thinks that a necklace in the shed belongs to him but it is not. He sees a family photograph and imagines his father telling him to find their family necklace.

The man trudges on through the woods, comes across a carcass and moves on.

It's night now and he goes towards a group of seven sitting around a campfire. The man thinks one of them has the necklace.

One of the guys in the group tells a spooky story and we finally learn the villain's name: Johnny.

Apparently, Johnny was a mentally challenged kid who was picked on by the townspeople.

One day, one of the lumberjacks slipped on one of Johnny's toys and decided to prank him. He called Johnny to the top of the fire tower and scared him with the firefighter mask only for Johnny to get so startled that he fell off the tower.

Realizing their mistake, they put the mask on Johnny so that it would look like Johnny was playing by himself and fell to his death.

Johnny's father suspected foul play and confronted the men only to be killed.

Some time later, all those men were found hacked and it was assumed that Johnny's spirit had returned and was vengeful.

Johnny isn't too happy that his story is being told as if it was an urban legend. He finds one of the guys standing alone, smoking, and listening to music.

Johnny takes a saw and proceeds to cut the guy from behind and through his mouth. Probably because he was the one who had narrated Johnny's story?

And so we see our first kill on screen.

Johnny picks up the head and the body then proceeds to stomp to the fire station. He sees the mask and weapons behind a glass and breaks it with the guy's body.

Johnny then takes the mask and dons it. He also takes the axe and the hook chain to kill more people.

He keeps walking all through the night. We are treated to more rustling of grass and heavy foots thumping.

Eventually, it's morning.

Two of the girls from the group are by the lake and chatting loudly. They don't see a large man sink into the lake and make their way to them.

One of the girls walks away because she wants to do yoga leaving the only girl in the group who is killed by drowning and not brutally murdered.

Johnny then goes after the girl doing yoga near a cliff. Realizing she is between a murderer and a cliff, she accepts her fate in the hands of the killer.

Johnny stabs her in the back with his hook and creates a hole in her body. He then sticks the hook on her head and pulls it through the hole in her own body. Finally, he pushes her off the cliff.

Johnny decides to take a break from his brutal kill and plays with a toy car. The other people in the group finally notice that their friends are missing and get pissed off.

Johnny thinks they are indirectly threatening him and breaks the car.  He had taken off his mask to get some fresh air and show us how badly mutilated his face is. The guys have ruined his mood for good and so he wears the mask again.

One of the guys is getting into a car when Johnny approaches him and hits his leg with an axe. He thinks he saw this guy put the necklace in his pocket and wants it back. Unfortunately, the guy's friend has a gun which takes Johnny down for a little while.

While the shooter is helping out his friend, Johnny wakes up and throws his axe at the guy's head.

The injured leg guy tries to drag himself away but Johnny drops a rock on his head. The guys head explodes like a watermelon.

If you actually pay attention to the victims you will end up wondering of they are all made of skin, muscle, and bones or squishy rubber?

Finally, we see the final girl, Kris. She is panicking because she can't find her friends. She is with the last remaining guy.

Johnny notices Kris is wearing the necklace.

IN A VIOLENT NATURE Ending Explained with Spoilers

Johnny goes after her but she manages to escape in a quad bike with her friend.

The two go to the ranger's station. The ranger pretty much screams at them for taking the necklace because that is the only thing keeping Johnny's soul at peace.

Johnny approaches them and is shot multiple times which makes him fall. We see a close-up of the holes in his shirt while the blur of the background characters.

The ranger instructs the two survivors to get chains so they can restrain him and drag him back to his resting place near the fire station.

The ranger approaches Johnny who suddenly sits up and struggles with him. The two friends run away.

The ranger's head is pulled back until his spine snaps. He is then dragged inside towards a wood-chopping machine. Johnny does a trial run on a log before chopping the ranger's wrist.

He then drags the ranger's body across the belt. The ranger is barely awake but immobilised. His head is then chopped.

Johnny returns to trampling flowers while Kris and her friend sneak around the killer.

Eventually, the guy distracts Johnny by insulting him. Johnny rewards him by striking him repeatedly with an axe.

Kris watches in horror and slowly removes the necklace from her neck and hangs it around a canister.

Apparently, the plan was a total fail considering only one could have survived. What made the guy think it was a good idea to stand behind a killer?

Anyway, Kris runs for her life and manages to hurt her leg. Then she flags down a car and gets in with a woman who tells her about her brother being attacked by a bear but making it out alive.

Did she really want to talk about a bear or was her brother attacked by Johnny and survived?

Regardless, Kris loses consciousness for a bit which makes the woman stop and tie a tourniquet around her leg.

Kris grows fearful and keeps her eyes trained on the woods, certain that Johnny is going to emerge and kill her.

He doesn't.

We see the canister again. The necklace is gone.

Has Johnny gone back to sleep?

The movie ends.

In A Violent Nature is a decent enough horror movie and worth a one-time watch at least.

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