is played for chuckles, while different minutes are played for veritable stuns. In general, Horns is an exceptionally blended pack. The film itself is really untidy and a close tonal debacle. Yet the exhibitions, particularly from Radcliffe and Temple, are all exceptionally well done. However it is an imperfect one that could have effectively been enhanced with better plotting and a stronger second half. Accuse the first book, yet the progressions recommend detach that could have been amended.

expecting everything to math perfectly, and this movie did everything right!The third is the cinematography. Such a beautiful and artful film, everything about the way this movie looks is delivered perfectly.If you have not watched this movie or at least read the novel, please take the time to do so. It is such an original story and well worth it! It's disturbing, funny, sad, satisfying and so much more!

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head. He uses his newfound abilities to solve his girlfriend's murder, who he's suspected of killing. The film also stars Max Minghella, Juno Temple, Joe Anderson, Kelli Garner, James Remar, Kathleen Quinlan and Heather Graham. I found it to be bizarrely interesting and oddly entertaining.Radcliffe plays Ig Perrish; a young lover who awakens, one drunken morning, to find out that his girlfriend, Merrin Williams Temple , has been brutally raped and murdered. Although almost everyone in town thinks Ig killed Merrin, including his own parents, he's found innocent of the charges, a year later. While living the life of a hated alcoholic outcast he wakes up, another hungover morning, to find out he has horns growing out of his head and special demonic abilities. He then uses his new powers to influence the locals, into telling him their deepest and darkest secrets, and becomes obsessed with finding Merrin's true killer.While the film isn't as graphically violent as Aja's more gruesome horror flicks it is still a pretty dark and twisted movie, with a pretty consistently sick sense of humor. In some ways it reminds me of earlier Tim Burton and Sam Raimi flicks. It's got some cool visual effects and Aja does a great job of bringing the mythical world he's created to life. Radcliffe is also great in the lead although LaBeouf probably would have been better and it's great to see him continuously grow and diversify as an actor. I found the whole thing to be pretty amusing and strangely intriguing. If you like dark fantasy films, like this, you might really enjoy it. It's definitely a slight departure for Aja and Radcliffe.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://youtu.be/hS02wz4z3uU

here probably comes from the creepiness of Daniel's look and his strong performance. Overall, this is one hell of a FUN ride that succeeds in delivering you laugh, thrill, surprise, and heart all in one place >>A-<<

surprises of the year, and all the advertising for the movie, and it being released for Halloween is just stupid of the studio, it's not a horror film in the slightest, its a fantasy movie, almost as if Rob Zombie has discovered a young adult novel and given it his own twist.It's really surprising how much this movie resembles Gone Girl, from the disappearance and accusations of the townsfolk, right down to the narrative. Just like Gone Girl, the narrative starts at a separate time to the actual story, and copes with it just as good as Fincher's movie.But it's wonderfully funny too, when Ig first gets his horns, he goes to the doctors, and much like Willis in Unbreakable, he can read people's thoughts, and this can leads to some really laugh out loud moments, as well as some heartfelt moments too.As the summary says, this is Radcliffes film, and here he's finally gotten rid of that Shadow he's had since 2001, and in my opinion, this is his finest role, this is the role that will define him as a leading actor, he's brilliant as the tortured Ig.Juno Temple is as good as always, and David Morse is fantastic as the grieving father. If you haven't read the book, or seen any of the trailers, my advice is see it without knowing too much, because there is a wonderful, very somber twist to the film, which will make you realise why I think its wrong that the studio have classed it as a horror movie.Its a film about breaking taboo, seeing people's true colours, and falling from grace.Its a sensational love story, and one of the best films to be released in 2014.

quickly spirals into some incredibly out there. Once the Horns are introduced things just take a shift into the bizarre, and I loved that. There are some truly hilarious and insane scenes. The film does a nice job of being cleverly light and rather dark at the same time.The acting was excellent. Daniel Ratcliffe does a great job of being American, it was weird to hear him without the accent at first but he does such a good job that I eventually completely forgot that he was even British. The rest of the supporting cast did a great job, all the characters were extremely interesting and well written so that may have had something to do with it.Overall I really enjoyed this. It definitely isn't for everybody and has a pretty long run time of 2 hours so I could see people getting bored with it if it isn't exactly there thing. But if you want to see something that you haven't seen before, something that tries to be original but not too overly artsy, something with heart then I suggest giving this a try.8/10

French language horror film into a gig behind the camera for The Hills Have Eyes remake in 2006. Aja's next horror film, Mirrors starring Keifer Sutherland was a bit of a letdown, but he came back strong with 2010's Piranha and then stayed away from the directing chair and pounded out the screenplay for the still underrated Maniac 2013 which is one of those hidden gems that no everyone has caught onto just yet. Aja's latest is Horns, a horror, thriller, fantasy that was adapted from the Joe Hill book of the same name. In Horns, Daniel Radcliffe The Woman in Black plays Ig Perrish, a young man in a small town who is madly in love with the woman of his dreams named Merrin Juno Temple . Merrin and Ig met as young kids and their love seemed unflinching. But when Merrin is murdered, Ig becomes accused in the court of public opinion and the townspeople show disfavor to Ig in all directions harassing and condemning him for an act that he has yet to be convicted. Ig professes his innocence. He was drunk the night of Merrin's death and cannot recall the events of the evening. But he is convinced that his love for Merrin would never allow his instincts to result in a brutal slaying. The next morning, Ig awakens with mysterious horns growing from his temples. Considering the town already considers him the devil, the horns would be an incredible inconvenience except for their seeming power they have over people which reveal their inner most and darkest secrets when the horns are in their presence. This too comes at an inconvenience. Ig learns that his mother wants him to leave and that his father thinks him guilty. But Ig is also able to use the horn's power to get answers from people around town in his own attempt to piece together the events of Merrin's last evening. As the hours pass, the horns atop Ig's heads become more pronounced and the Satan symbolism continues with inclusions of snakes, pitchforks and even a burned body before the movie hits its climax. For director Alexandre Aja best known for his horror and over the top violence, Horns is definitely a departure. But that doesn't mean that Aja can't infuse what he does best into the very involving love story. There are a few scenes of violence and nudity throughout Horns that will ensure the younger Harry Potter Fan Club will be refused entrance at the local movie theatre Horns will be rated –R . Daniel Radcliffe was daring casting, but he has proved in The Woman in Black and now with Horns that he is going to be able to leave the boy wizard behind and we didn't think for one second that the man who beat Voldomort was the same person we were watching on screen. Surprising many of us who screened the film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Horns was an exceptional film that we keep our fingers crossed that the multiple dabbles in different genres will not deter or confuse the audience that this film richly deserves. Not only is it one of the best we have seen at the Festival this year, but it is also one of more original films we have seen in a while and fully expect Horns to end up in our Top 15 films of the year once the books are closed.

went over really well with a less-than-optimal audience. I lamented to program director Collin Geddes after the show that it should have been presented as part of his beloved "Midnight Madness" program – it definitely would have been a slam dunk success in this category I saw the winning entry and this movie was WAY better and 100% appropriate rather than just a festival side note. How to describe it? Think of it as a very engaging R-rated Halloween-season movie that successfully meshes several genres, murder-mystery being the leitmotif. Writer Hill explained that he doesn't like to limit one of his works to a single genre. It has a great comic hook in that the horns bring out the worst in people -- which means a lot of great opportunities for a talented supporting cast. My only cavil was a minor one with the pacing -- and this could very well have been corrected in the current version, considering the time they've had. How does Daniel give the R.I.P. to Potter? I'll cut right to the chase: He smokes, he drinks, he swears, he f___s. Some of his adult scenes practically BEG for a Colorado viewing. Just imagine you're seeing Harry Potter contemplating a BJ offer from Heather Graham "Gee, I dunno ... what do YOU think, Ron?" . I hope that they've been holding this back for a Halloween release. That would mean an opportunity to screen it again at TIFF, this time in the right program – which could give it a publicity boost that it definitely deserves. To those in the know: This one rates a Snob-A, in that it passes the litmus test: I have to see it again.