Although In A Violent Nature owes an obvious creative debt to the Friday the 13th franchise, the indie horror movie’s direct connection with the slasher franchise is easy to miss. 2024’s In A Violent Nature is a slasher movie like no other. Filmed in a style reminiscent of Terrence Malick and Gus Van Sant, In A Violent Nature is a meditatively paced horror that takes place from the slasher villain’s point of view. Great swathes of the movie’s relaxed runtime are spent wandering through empty, quiet woods and across idyllic fields, only for every human encounter to end gruesomely.