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Horns

2013 Directed by Alexandre Aja

He Will Bring Out The Devil In You

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

Daniel Radcliffe Juno Temple Kelli Garner James Remar Max Minghella Joe Anderson Sabrina Carpenter Laine MacNeil Dylan Schmid Kendra Anderson Kathleen Quinlan Heather Graham David Morse Michael Adamthwaite Nels Lennarson Don Thompson Jay Brazeau Alex Zahara Christine Willes Meredith McGeachie Sarah Boey Panou Reese Alexander Desiree Zurowski Marilyn Norry Nancy Sivak Cameron McDonald John Stewart Dean Wray Show All…

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Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★ 11

Good attempt... was intriguing initially but eventually the gimmick wore off and by then the story ran out of steam!

The good news I finally reached the point I can accept and like Daniel Radcliffe in a role other than Harry Potter! He actually was pretty darn good in this!

Was an interesting watch and not a bad way to spend your time as long as you are the kind that can suspend disbelief easily!
Review by Dirk van Eck ★★★½ 5

This is a movie about a guy, played by Daniel Radcliffe, who can communicate with snakes. It also involves elements of magic (realism). Who’d ever think that a combination of those things would comprise such an engaging film? Well? And I’m not even biased as a result of Juno Temple’s involvement (not really anyways, since she’s barely in it). No, Horns truly deserves much more praise than it has received, because - setting aside the over-the-top ending - it is (a) hugely entertaining, (b) extremely original and (c) filled with amusing symbolic Easter eggs. I was thrilled. Adding this to my 2013 top 20 now.
Review by Evan ★★½ 10

This movie makes about as much sense as people who think Blackhat is a good movie.
Review by Thomas McCallum ★★★★ 2

Performances: 7.6/10
Story: 8.6/10
Production: 8.3/10
Overall: 8.16/10

You can classify Horns as a horror film, right? If you can then this is the best horror film released this year. Horns blends that horror with fantasy, mystery and even comedy. In fact I think I found myself laughing more during this film than I have during a lot of other true comedies this year.

Daniel Radcliffe is legit. He was good in What If, a romantic comedy that didn't exactly require fantastic acting chops. Horns has a little more for him to bite into and he does wonderful work. He's surrounded by some well acted characters played by likes of Juno Temple, Heather Graham, David Morse and Max Minghella. Make…
Review by JΔΣΞS Β ★★★

Directed by Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension / Mirrors), Horns is a dark-comedy thriller mystery film with a bit of fantasy thrown in. And If that sounds like a lot of genres to juggle, it is - and Horns does it darndest to keep those balls in the air. And speaking of balls, Daniel Radcliffe commits as a man accused of the rape and murder of his girlfriend who uses the magical lasso-of-truth-like properties of the literal horns growing out of his head to uncover the real killer.

There is a real attempt at greatness here which should be noted and encouraged - and at times the film surprises - but not always in a good way.

Will be discussed on our next Top 10 Last 10 podcast episode.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★½

Hoop-Tober, Film 31 of 31:

This film is hilarious. It's not meant to be taken seriously but it is tonally confused in the sense that it doesn't attack comedy and drama simultaneously; it alternates between sections of pure comedy and sections of (attempted) pure drama that don't work as well as the comedic ones. But the comedic ones do work - at least for me, they did - and they're the saving grace of the film. The performances are fine, the cinematography is fine (although it does have that ridiculous artificial glow I hate that more and more films are starting to have these days) and the direction is fine - I like Alexandre Aja. Quite a bit, actually. The…

Recent reviews

Review by Sarah Bierman ★★★★

So weird but Daniel Radcliffe is aging so well that I have a hard time disliking movies he's in despite the fact that I hate Harry Potter. The character not the series.
Review by Rebecca ★★★★½

I know that nobody saw or liked this movie but I will genuinely defend it to death. It’s so underrated.
Review by Boratfan6969

I was not high when I watched this movie.
Review by AlexHyde ★½

This movie was terrible
Review by Alex ★★½

this movie is a fever dream from my puberty and the character with cancer is called perrish like?? that's the tea rite there honestly 😂👌
Review by taxyzz ½

Waste of time
Review by C Solo ★★★

Basic, with obvious magic/demonic tones and visualisation with top quality product placement! The story is a classic tale of woe, told in an modern environment, with Daniel Radcliffe being fun to watch, especially alongside (although not much with) the intriguing actress Juno Temple.
Fun to watch, but quite deep and stark at points. Demonically Fresh.
Review by jordi_nackan ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

ends with some pretty intense religious imagery
Review by rricardorrivera ½

Is this movie awful? Does it make an absolute disaster out of its premise? Does it feature narration so distracting it becomes a nuisance? Does it attempt to play everything straight and for dramatic effect, when it should have gone the opposite route? Maybe play things for laugh and gone for an over-the-top angle?
After all, it’s about a young man who sprouts wings and becomes a flaming demon spawn.
To add more to the things already stated above would be to continue wasting my time.
And this movie already cost me enough of that.