Inside the Bloody Making of Nature’s Gnarliest Horror Movie Scene in 2024’s Film

Brain Burst • Inside the Bloody Making of Nature’s Gnarliest Horror Movie Scene in 2024’s Film

The In a Violent Nature Blu-ray has a lot of great special features

While “Terrifier 3” is getting a lot of buzz for its extreme gore, there’s another indie horror movie from 2024 that didn’t shy away from the red stuff. I’m talking about “In a Violent Nature,” a film that offers a twist on the classic slasher movie mold: the story is told almost entirely from the POV of the killer. On paper, “In a Violent Nature” follows a formula established by countless “Friday the 13th” movies: an undead, masked killer stalks and butchers clueless, horny young people in the woods. But instead of making the victims the main characters, writer-director Chris Nash keeps the narrative (mostly) with the killer, a hulking brute named Johnny. Borrowing a page from Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant,” the camera frequently follows just behind Johnny as he stalks through the Canadian wilderness. There are long stretches where we simply follow Johnny silently stalking around. But every now and then, he’ll come across some unlikely person who meets a violent demise.

Creating the yoga kill

The “In a Violent Nature” Collector’s Edition Blu-ray hit shelves on October 15, 2024, and it comes loaded with over 3-hours of special features. One of those special features is titled “The Yoga Kill: Candid On-Set Footage,” and shows amusing behind-the-scenes footage of how Chris Nash and company created the movie’s most memorable kill scene.

We see both actress Charlotte Creaghan wearing prosthetic makeup and the dummy they used for some of the more gory moments. And we see the gallons of fake blood the crew sprayed everywhere to make the moment work. Even though the scene is graphic and brutal, the behind-the-scenes footage shows how funny and light the mood was in creating the scene. It’s a reminder that there’s something fun about getting together a bunch of gore effects and creating something twisted.

“That kill was designed in a way where I, you know, first off, I wanted to see something that I’d never seen before,” Nash said in an interview. “And that goes for everything. Another aspect of it is, I’ve got a background in process effects design, and our prosthetics builder and designer, seek Sanski, who is also a director in his own right. So he thinks very, very similarly to me. We always want to challenge ourselves and do things that we haven’t really seen or done before. And create these moments that we want to see or want to be impressed by when we’re watching films.”
I know “Terrifer 3” gets all the gore-glory, but while I enjoyed that movie, I liked “In a VIolent Nature” more. It just felt a little more special to me, and I was particularly taken with the ambient atmosphere the film creates. It’s almost hypnotic.

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