One and a half stars our of four.
One of the most awaited and over-hyped scary movies of 2024, Nature was exactly what I expected it to be. A meandering, dreadfully painful to watch movie with no substance or story to speak of. It's simply a undead geek named "Johnny," who lumbers his way through the Canadian wilderness, in search of his necklace that was stolen by douchebag campers. The upside is that Johnny makes it a point to kill said campers, definitely the high point of the flick. This film has great kills and that's why I rate this with a whole extra star. Otherwise, it's like watching your 93-year-old grandmother walk with a cane and suffer from sciatica.
We get the usual slasher villain backstory from the campers. It's something to do with Johnny being developmentally disabled and getting burned to death by yokel dickheads. The necklace was given to him by his dad, blah blah blah. There's no reason to care. There's nothing particularly interesting about the story. Or at least it's poorly paced in this film, where everything is carried out in real time. I thought I read this movie was based on the defunct idea for making a found footage Friday the 13th entry, but I may have imagined that.
We have the ever prevalent trope of friends who hate each other at play too. Another reason not to care what happens in this flick. I know a lot of people think characters in slasher films are simply fodder for the blade. But at least with slasher flicks in the past, the side characters had something of note with made them interesting. Even if it's just to laugh at and riff. The only character that stands out for me is the dumbass stoner. The only reason there is because I really wanted to see him deleted way earlier than what happened in the movie.
Part 2 is on its way in the near feature. Oh the humanity!
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