If there’s one thing that’s increasingly hard to come by in modern horror, then that is an original idea. And to that end, writer-director Chris Nash’s 2024 effort In A Violent Nature was something of a rarity. Part horror movie, part vibes-based walking simulator, Nash’s film quite literally offered a fresh perspective on the slasher: it was told entirely from the mask-wearing killer’s POV. And now that movie’s first AD Nathaniel Wilson is stepping into the director’s hotseat for In A Violent Nature 2, which is set to see Johnny and his hook unleashed on a fresh batch of unsuspecting twenty-somethings. Check out the brutal first teaser trailer below;
Welp — there goes Johnny and his gut-spilling hook again! While Chris Nash isn’t back on directing duty for In A Violent Nature 2, he has returned to pen his slow-moving slasher’s follow-up. And, per the movie’s official synopsis, it looks like Ry Barrett’s locket-loving brute is upping the ante with his latest killing spree and going full Friday The 13th/Sleepaway Camp. “Johnny’s violent rampage leads him to a summer camp just as a young, outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counselor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party,” reads this sequel’s short-but-sweet/sickening logline — and if what we glimpse in the trailer’s anything to go by, then it would appear Johnny’s operating a BYOH policy when he comes to crash the party. (And yes, the H stands for Hook, natch.) Among the cadavers-in-waiting this time out are Lucas Nguyen, Olivia Scriven, Laurie Babin, Fionn Laird, Donald MacLean Jr., and Evan Marsh.
Last time out, it wasn’t so much In A Violent Nature’s sort-of Malickian sense of elemental wonder and off-kilter serenity that proved divisive for discerning horror hounds, but moreso Nash’s bailing on the format repeatedly over the course of the movie. We’ll find out whether the formula is refined in the sequel when In A Violent Nature 2 gets its hooks into cinemagoers later this year.