Even though Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature was a popular film this year it isn’t the first of its ilk. That accolade might go to Friday the 13th on which it’s inspired. What makes it special might be the ASMR technique and the third-person point of view.
The graphic slasher genre is a design that will probably never go away much like its distant cousin the man-eating shark movie. As with those films, the slasher has some good entries and some really bad ones, but the caveat is sometimes even the bad ones are good ones. Much of that is because of the special effects. People are willing to ignore a boilerplate screenplay as long as the kills are fun and somewhat realistic.
In a Violent Nature is the perfect example of that.
However, other films over the years have attempted to duplicate Sean S. Cunningham’s original Friday the 13th, some even direct homages. It should be noted that technically it’s Friday the 13th Part 2 that started the hulking disfigured male killer in the woods trope.
Below are six films that are like In a Violent Nature in almost every way that you might enjoy. They all have a masked killer stalking people and killing them in a variety of gags. We didn’t include Friday the 13th simply because it’s an obvious muse for In a Violent Nature and if you are reading this chances are you have already seen it.
We start with Adam Green’s homage to Jason, Hatchet. If you think In a Violent Nature was the first to pay intentional tribute to Friday the 13th you’d be wrong because Green did it first with this film 17 years ago.
Take a look at the following titles and their IMDb synopsis and make it a killer weekend. If you are curious about where you can rent or buy any of them, visit JustWatch and they will point you in the right direction.
Hatchet (2007)
When a group of tourists in a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Laid to Rest (2009)
A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
Madman (1982)
At a summer camp for youths, cockey pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer “Madman Marz”. Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called
Lumberjack Man (2015)
As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with “Fun Under the Son”, a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.
The Burning (1981)
Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
Unmasked Part 25 (1988)
Jackson is a lonely serial killer who is really beginning to question the point of all his killing. He is losing focus on why he started to kill in the first place. The future looks bleak until he meets a blind girl, Shelly, who begins to show him that life isn’t so bad. It is all up to Jackson to decide if he’s going to stop killing and start learning responsibility and think about finding a real job and starting a family.