Monthly Archive: July 2024

In A Violent Nature

Directed by Chris Nash

It’s not often that movies make it to the theater without an official Motion Picture Association of America age rating, a rating system so common that people may mistake it for a government-backed censor board. Even though it kind of functions like that, there isn’t any enforcement branch to the MPAA, so when film producers refuse to abide by these standards and remove violence or sex, or the gays depending on the year, they can release movies without that rating. Usually, this is because the movie has too much graphic sexual content and it got the old dudes on the board too hot and bothered to think straight, but in some cases, like with In A Violent Nature, extreme violence is the culprit, which is so odd considering that violent movies make the film industry billions upon billions of dollars, but god-forbid there’s a bit too much violence. This was all a long-winded way of me introducing In A Violent Nature, an unrated Canadian slasher film distributed by IFC and the good people at Shudder.