Killer Origin Story, Motive and Golden Locket Explained

In a violent nature Introduces a new killer killer through Johnny, who, like many other villains of the genre, has a tragic origin story and clear motives for going on killing sprees. The horror genre has seen some surprisingly good and successful movies in recent years, most of them original stories. Among them is In a violent naturewhich took the slasher genre by surprise with its narrative style and very graphic death. Written and directed by Chris Nash, In a violent nature was a critical success, quickly earning it a sequel.

In a violent nature Takes the audience to the forest to follow a group of friends who go camping. Some of them find the remains of a fire tower and a golden locket hanging from it, which one of them takes. What they don’t count on is that this wakes up Johnny, who goes on a killing spree and the group becomes his prime target. In a violent nature is mostly told through Johnny’s perspectiveBut it takes the time to explain what happened to Johnny and why he killed so many people.

What happened to Johnny before the events in a violent nature

Johnny had a tragic death

Unlike most movies, In a violent nature Does not rely on flashbacks to tell Johnny’s backstory. Instead, Johnny himself takes the audience to where the group is staying and have a campfire. There, one of the friends, Ehren (Sam Roulston), tells them the story of Johnny after they found the locket in the remains of the fire tower. Ehren explains that seventy years ago, everyone was carried out by a logging company. They set up shops in the camps to sell goods to the camps, but the prices were too high.

Johnny’s father ran the stores, so he was hated by the warehousemen, who took all their anger out on young Johnny. Johnny was developmentally delayed, so the evil loggers were quite cruel to him. One day, a drunk camper trips over one of Johnny’s toy cars and breaks his ankle. He’s been out of work for months and obviously blames Johnny for what happened to him, so he and the other loggers decide to teach Johnny a lesson. The loggers told Johnny that they had found a bag of toys and were meeting at the old fire tower.

Johnny snuck out of the camp and climbed to the top of the tower but there were no toys – instead, Johnny was met by one of the campers wearing a creepy firefighter mask, ready to scare Johnny. Unfortunately, he succeeded and Johnny fell from the tower, snapping his neck and dying on the spot. The loggers panicked and put the mask on Johnny to make it look like he was playing in the tower, slipped, fell, and had an accidental death. When Johnny’s father found his son’s body, he knew the loggers had something to do with him.

Johnny’s father confronted the loggers and a fight broke out, resulting in the death of Johnny’s father And Johnny’s killer claiming he did it in self-defense. All this was covered up by the camp company, so that no charges were filed, but a week later, when the company’s managers visited the camp, they found all the campers dead and their bodies destroyed as if they had been attacked by an animal. Their death was ruled as food poisoning and animals in the area ate their bodies – however, one of the policemen said he saw a guy watching in the forest with a mask.

Why Johnny became a killer and who he was targeting

Johnny was on a revenge mission

Of course, not everyone was satisfied with the official version of what happened to the loggers and many thought the person responsible was the masked guy, which others were convinced was Johnny’s revenge – and they were right. A decade later, Johnny returned for another killing spree In which he targeted a group of teenagers. The only survivor was the son of the man who defeated him years beforeAnd he once again anchored his soul in the remains of the fire tower.

Johnny’s first killing sprees – those of the loggers and the teenagers – were all out of revenge. The loggers were cruel to him for no reason (they were angry with his father but took it out on young Johnny, who did nothing to them), they provoked his death and did not take responsibility for it, instead made it look Like an accident. Even worse, they later killed his father and did not take responsibility for it, Johnny had a double mission: avenge his death and also his father.

It is unknown if Johnny was resurrected between the 1980s killing spree and the one in In a violent natureBut his motivations for the last one were different from the previous murders. As mentioned above, one of the friends, Troy (Liam Leon), took the golden locket from the fire tower despite Eren’s warnings, and this woke up Yanni once more. What Johnny wanted this time was to get the locket back, but not without taking his anger out on everyone who crossed his path.

In a mighty nature’s golden locket declared

It all started with a stolen golden locket

The Golden Locket is the trigger of the events of In a violent nature. There was a reason why there was a golden locket where Johnny was buried, like The premises belonged to the mother. After Johnny awakens and starts walking through the woods looking for the locket and those who took it, he comes across a house where he sees a necklace like the locket. In this scene, there is a brief flashback shown through a mirror in which Johnny’s father gives him the locket so he knows that his parents will always be with him no matter what what.

Later in the movie, a ranger explains to Colt (Cameron Love) and Chris (Andrea Pavlovic) that the golden locket, which Chris was wearing after Troy gave it to her, is the only thing keeping Johnny’s soul at rest. By taking it, they disturbed Johnny’s soul and, of course, he had to return for revenge and to retrieve the locket. Despite this, Chris continues to wear the locket until she finally takes it off and leaves it hanging from a gas canister while Johnny brutally murders Colt.

What happened to Johnny in a violent behavior

Johnny’s Story isn’t over yet

By finally removing the locket and leaving it in the woods, Chris saves himself as Johnny no longer follows her, but Johnny’s fate is left unclear. In a violent nature Shows that the golden locket was no longer on the gas canister Where Chris left it, suggesting Johnny found it, took it, and his soul was finally at peace again. however, It is unknown if Johnny returned to the remains of the fire tower and his graveIf he is hiding somewhere with the locket, or if he has found a new root in the forest.

In a violent nature Establishes that the only way for Johnny to be awakened is by taking the golden locket away from him, because he already got his revenge on his and his father’s killers. This leaves the door open for Johnny’s return in the sequel and beyond, and whether there are other ways for him to return or if he’s now bound to wander the woods because he wasn’t exactly laid to rest at the end of In a violent nature Will have to be resolved in the sequel.