10 Terrible Scenes From Awesome Recent Movies

3. The Campfire Chitchat - In A Violent Nature

Alien Romulus
IFC Films

Arthouse horror flick In A Violent Nature certainly isn't for everyone, but it is a beautifully shot and quite daring provocation, taking a "Slow Cinema" approach to a typical Friday the 13th-esque slasher movie setup.

While the film primarily unfolds from the perspective of masked serial killer Johnny (Ry Barrett), there's a momentum-obliterating sequence early on that feels wholly at odds with that idea. 

In the first act, there's an almost 10-minute scene in which a group of friends - aka Johnny's various future victims - sit around a campfire, trade horrible "comedic" dialogue, and drop ham-fisted exposition about Johnny's backstory. It's so on-the-nose as to almost feel like a parody of similar scenes in conventional slasher flicks, and yet, it also feels out of place in a film that otherwise has little time for lame humour or over-explaining things. 

Cut this scene out, or at least show only a fragment of it from Johnny's perspective, and the film instantly gets better.

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