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  Review by Sean Baker 10

  I really like Aja's films so not sure why I slept on this for 8 years. Great performances all around. Really impressed by Daniel Radcliffe's comic delivery.

  Gorgeously shot by Frederick Elmes.

  Watched on Blu-ray rented from Netflix.

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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!

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  Review by clemmie ★★★★

  one of the first lines being "are u horny".....and then he literally got horny !!

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  Review by Evan ★★½ 8

  This movie makes about as much sense as people who think Blackhat is a good movie.

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  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…

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  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…

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  Review by HorrorSage ★★★ 4

  Good evening and welcome fellow children of Chaos.

  Horns us obviously based on a book. Needlessly wordy and with a strange time structure. However I enjoyed it, for the most part.

  An innocent man blamed for the death of his lover grows horns that force people to tell him their secrets.

  The first half of the movie is amazing. I love the idea of using forced confession to solve the mystery. It is harder than you'd think.

  Then it goes into this revenge mode and the movie becomes far less interesting. I still enjoyed it quite a bit though. Daniel Radcliffe is quite good

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  Review by amaya ★ 1

  david bowie sweetie i'm so sorry an ugly ass bitch like this would even mention your name

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  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.

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  Review by nathaxnne (hiatus) ★★½ 6

  'Horns' is a melodramatic fable of young love lost, murder, the resentments that linger within our relationships and within ourselves, and being given infernal gifts to solve a problem when nothing else will work. When 'Horns' is operating in 'To Die For'-style modalities of 'what evil lurks in the heart of' and the suppressed truths we don't want to admit to ourselves it is arguably at its best. When it adds layers of 'what-next?' absurdist humor it is even better. When these things collide with a weird Puritanical streak and efforts at broad multiplex dramatics, it almost works, but then doesn't quite and produces as sense of self-cancelling inert frustration. I love Alexander Aja's movies and this one had plenty…

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  Review by Wade ★★★½

  p͟i͟c͟k͟ ͟t͟h͟e͟ ͟s͟i͟n͟ ͟y͟o͟u͟ ͟c͟a͟n͟ ͟l͟i͟v͟e͟ ͟w͟i͟t͟h͟

  Somewhat a beautiful love story haha. I think most people can relate to Ig Perrish and the situation he finds himself in. Even though we don’t sprout devil horns over night we still carry some form of sin daily. There is always someone that recedes those wicked traits and gives us comfort. Always that one person. That suppresses our dark thoughts and gives us hope. And once they’re gone—our horns grow back. Whether for vengeance (like Ig), greed, infidelity and other rotten desires. 

  I did love the book years ago and this rewatch was more intricate than I last saw it, which I was like nineteen so that explains that. I was a lost puppy then lol. Much praise to Radcliffe as this is my favorite non-Harry Potter role from him.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★

  Intriguing concept goes unexplored in favor of bland whodunit about the rape/murder of a young woman. Yay.