AMC aquires new horror, In a Violent Nature, featuring undead slasher

Variety reports that Shudder, AMC Networks' home for everything horror, has acquired a new movie, In A Violent Nature, prior to its premeire at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The new movie puts a unique spin on its murderer as he is a member of the undead. The film is scheduled to screen at Sundance's Midnight Section.

In his debut feature film, Chris Nash writes and directs the film produced under the Shudder Original banner with Peter Kuplowsky and Shannon Hanmer. Kuplowsky, the lead programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section, states that the film is "the culmination of a creative partnership" between himself, Nash, and Hanmer. The team is grateful for the collaboration with Shudder, and Kuplowsky states that Nash's vision falls somewhere between the "atmospheric creeping dread of Skinamarink and the shocking gore of When Evil Lurks." Both of the mentioned movies are Shudder originals.

In a Violent Nature - new Shudder Original horror film

Johnny, the movie's slasher, is described as an undead monster, and the film follows him through a remote wilderness on "a rampaging journey." Samuel Zimmerman, Shudder’s vice president of programming, states that the film honors the slasher genre with a singular and brutal new story.

In a Violent Nature's debut will be Shudder's fifth consecutive year premiering films at Sundance. Previous films that have premiered at the festival include Birth/Rebirth, La Llorona, Scare Me, Violation, and Speak No Evil.

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