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Let’s Talk About the Gnarliest Horror Scene of the Year
As far as slasher fatalities go, the centerpiece of In a Violent Nature is an all-timer.
No, it continues unabated, as the killer then turns his victim to face the water again and yanks on the chain still dangling in her midsection — a grotesque indignity that gruesomely breaks her neck and pulls her head down and forward and then (cue barf bags) through that same bloody, gaping hole where her stomach should be. Were the film an official entry in the Friday the 13th series, rather than a curious, methodical tone-poem tribute to the same, this innovatively nasty slaying would land instantly near the top of a Voorhees-kill-count power ranking, challenging the standing of Kevin Bacon’s date with an arrow or that time Jason dunked someone’s head into liquid nitrogen. Another, ahem, hook of the barbaric encounter is how deliberately it plays out before us — how Nash lingers on details, like the splinter of the cervical spine, or the breathtaking wide shot he deploys to emphasize the altitude that dooms the yogi, the long fall that’s her only alternative to brutal evisceration.
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