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 Slasher films often fall between creepy moments due to weak plots and cardboard characters meant to give structural integrity to their shocking content. “In a Violent Nature” avoids those pitfalls by almost completely sidestepping the standard niceties of narrative and psychological detail. There's an explanatory, albeit piecemeal and possibly inaccurate, backstory, but otherwise, writer-director Chris Nash's debut feature tackles the usual gory business with a kind of minimalist purity, made possible by focusing almost entirely on the point of view of an unstoppable killing machine. It's a tactic that could easily become monotonous. However, this Canadian indie manages to keep us engaged, inducing fear in viewers, if not a lot of outright terror. The Shudder Original, which will premiere in Sundance's Midnight section, is scheduled to begin streaming on that genre platform sometime this spring. Director: Chris Nash Writer: Chris Nash Stars: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic...