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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 dancruse ★★★½

Rewatched as part of my Halloween marathon, I really like this movie and I really really love the book it is based on. Thoughtful, darkly humorous, and with some great blending of fantastical horror and mystery. It’s somewhat jumbled in tone at times and I believe the book works better than the film for the most part but I still enjoyed it quite a bit.

Daniel Radcliffe has gone in many strange directions after Harry Potter and I believe this and Swiss Army Man are the two most interesting projects he has been a part of.

Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, wrote the story about a man who has lost his girlfriend to a horrible murder and who sprouts…
Review by lydenfogg ★½

I just can’t with this movie it’s terrible the book was good but the movie is just so different
Review by Jasmin S. ★★★½

Not sure what I expected but I didn't get disappointed anyway. It was an interesting approach and quite enjoyable in fact. I'm intrigued to read the book.
Review by Robyn Smith ★★★★½

Way better than I thought it would be, gets pretty real there.
Review by Billy Meachen ★★

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

after this film i wanted to be stabbed with a pitchfork too
Review by Scott Howick ½

Fucking shit.

From the tone, writing, pacing m, cinematography, acting literally nothing about this movie works. It’s not funny, it’s not interesting it’s not scary.

Fuck this waste of oxygen.
Review by Vee ★★★½

i want snake friends
Review by Miguel Pereira ★★★★½

People can say whatever the fuck they want, this movie is fucking tight
Review by Themythking ★★ 1

This is just kinda messy. The concept is really good and when it fully leans into the imagery there’s some cool stuff here, but the setup is very weak making the odd behaviors that comes along with the horns less believable. The nonlinear storytelling also feels arbitrarily and isn’t all to well exicuted. Not terrible but the premise promises a lot more.

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