man I regret not watching this back when it was in theatres because of my feelings about Megan Fox at the time and the trailers. Because I watched it like 5-7 years ago and I absolutely loved it. Not only that but I would have loved it back then and it probably would have flipped me on Megan Fox sooner than the Lindsey Ellis Transformers videos. Weaponized like in Spring Breakers and let me tell you I died laughing to myself in the theatres when Gomez's character went home before the movie was half way done. I know there are people who walked out at that point there had to be.
There's a lot of deconstruction of the slashers, mostly with horror-comedies though. Tucker And Dale Vs Evil, Cabin in The Woods (which is bigger than just slashers of course), Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, etc. In A Violent Nature is not the first, but I do feel it's one of the firsts to approach it in a more deadpan way. But I'm probably forgetting a bunch of other entries at the moment haha
@@SuperWolfkin of course! But also still very tongue in cheek in the way it was approached. But point taken, I wouldn't categorize Scream directly as a horror comedy either.
I’d like to pop in on the nihilism argument. I still can’t tell who is who, but I’d posit that an unresolved ending, or one where “all things break down” isn’t inherently nihilistic. To say it is borders on dismissive. Instead, it is closer to “realistic” to stretch the term as in reality life never nearly resolves in to a neat moral justice. Movies that do so are often bordering on propagandistic, one way or another. Life itself doesn’t resolve as it must in film with an ending. So when in the movie, the third act returns to a justice narrative, the morality bending text of the first two thirds can be said to meet a contradiction of its own terms. A nihilistic movie is something like August underground.
Man, I completely missed this movie and only read up on it because of a recent Madison Beer music video.
Hey! Kyle Gallner is in this movie, with full guyliner. Check out 'Dinner in America' and 'The Passenger' with him as well, you won't be disappointed.
man I regret not watching this back when it was in theatres because of my feelings about Megan Fox at the time and the trailers. Because I watched it like 5-7 years ago and I absolutely loved it. Not only that but I would have loved it back then and it probably would have flipped me on Megan Fox sooner than the Lindsey Ellis Transformers videos.
Weaponized like in Spring Breakers and let me tell you I died laughing to myself in the theatres when Gomez's character went home before the movie was half way done. I know there are people who walked out at that point there had to be.
Hey yeah good point, everyone's talking about In A Violent Nature rn like its the first slasher movie to do this, but it ain't
There's a lot of deconstruction of the slashers, mostly with horror-comedies though. Tucker And Dale Vs Evil, Cabin in The Woods (which is bigger than just slashers of course), Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, etc. In A Violent Nature is not the first, but I do feel it's one of the firsts to approach it in a more deadpan way. But I'm probably forgetting a bunch of other entries at the moment haha
@@hubertforelle9118 i mean technically Scream was a deconstruction.
@@SuperWolfkin of course! But also still very tongue in cheek in the way it was approached. But point taken, I wouldn't categorize Scream directly as a horror comedy either.
I’d like to pop in on the nihilism argument. I still can’t tell who is who, but I’d posit that an unresolved ending, or one where “all things break down” isn’t inherently nihilistic. To say it is borders on dismissive. Instead, it is closer to “realistic” to stretch the term as in reality life never nearly resolves in to a neat moral justice. Movies that do so are often bordering on propagandistic, one way or another. Life itself doesn’t resolve as it must in film with an ending.
So when in the movie, the third act returns to a justice narrative, the morality bending text of the first two thirds can be said to meet a contradiction of its own terms.
A nihilistic movie is something like August underground.