Looking for some romantic Valentine’s Day weekend date plans? Or, better yet, looking for some counter programming to Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia” movie? Shudder has you covered.

“In a Violent Nature: Part 2,” the sequel to the breakout indie slasher horror film “In a Violent Nature” from Independent Film Company and Shudder, has set a release date of February 12, 2027. The news was announced at New York Comic Con during Shudder’s panel, with Ry Barrett, who plays the masked killer Johnny in both films, making a surprise appearance at the convention.

“In a Violent Nature: Part 2” is the follow-up to the 2024 film, which made $4.5 million globally at the box office and followed a killer whose body was resurrected as a vengeful spirit determined to recover a locket that was buried along with him. The new film picks up immediately where the first ended and, of course, sees Johnny return and continue his violent rampage, this time leading him to a summer camp where a young, outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counselor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party. His lore is also deepened, the kills get more intense, all good stuff.

The original film was arresting in that it told the horror movie from the perspective of the slasher himself, not his victims. Plus it was ultra violent in a way that one of our writers called “oddly comforting”? To each their own.

“Part 2” was first teased way back in February of this year, and attendees at Fantastic Fest also got a first look at the film last month. The film itself was announced shortly after the success of the original back in 2024.

The sequel is co-directed by Nate Wilson and Chris Nash, who also wrote the script. The film is produced by Peter Kuplowsky, Shannon Hanmer, and Nash.

Independent Film Company also this year released the killer shark thriller “Chum,” “Faces of Death,” and “Night Nurse,” and as IndieWire first reported, it produced the film “River” from director Josh Giuliano, which then flipped to Universal Pictures and Blumhouse as they look for the next “Obsession.”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was appointed the United Nations’ first global advocate for human-centric digital governance in March, is arguing that instead of being afraid of AI, “we should be concerned about the people building AI.”

In a new video interview with The New York Times, the actor was asked his current biggest fear about the technology. “I would object to that question just because reducing these concerns into one sound bite of fear — that’s one of the problems,” Gordon-Levitt responded.

“To me, saying: Oh, I’m scared that AI could exterminate all of humanity — that doesn’t really get at the substance of the concern. There’s real validity to that concern. But that’s not the thing that really worries me,” he said, explaining that his worries are “a lot more complicated and a lot more boring to talk about, because it’s a lot more dense,” citing “the decline of democracy, the decline of human empathy” as a concern.

“These companies are betting on the notion that they’re going to take over the entire economy. That would be totalitarianism, and that would be really bad,” Gordon-Levitt added. “Simultaneously, these models are being trained to hijack your intimacy, to make friends with you, to get you to fall in love with it. We shouldn’t be scared of an AI. We should be concerned about the people building AI.”

The Don Jon star previously opened up about his concerns about AI, arguing at a panel hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and Autodesk at Sundance that “we need to build a system for ongoing compensation” as the technology depends on “human input.”

He also joined a group of industry insiders last December to form the Creators Coalition on AI, with its mission being to provide “a central coordinating hub to upgrade our industry’s systems and institutions.” The group additionally has an advisory council that seeks “to establish shared standards, definitions and best practices as well as ethical and artistic protections for if and when AI is used in entertainment projects.”