Horns (2014) (English Language)

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120min

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella …and more

Daniel Radcliffe stars as a young man who becomes the town pariah when he is suspected of the murder of his girlfriend, he then begins to grow horns with dark supernatural confessional powers that help him find the real murderer of his one true love.

Horror director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) tries to bring his horror sensibilities to what is essentially a Murder-mystery with supernatural elements, ‘Horns’ is an Adaptation of an interesting and original Joe Hill novel which ultimately fails to transition effectively to the screen.

‘Horns’ feels like a rudderless ship with no clear cinematic direction, it looks like the writers and directors where not sure what type of film they were making and it is not handled skilfully enough to successfully to straddle movie genres.

Despite an accomplished performance by the lead star and entertaining elements of dark comedy and horror, the themes of atonement and redemption and the central love story from the novel are lost in a convoluted plot and the film seems rather pointless if not reasonably entertaining in parts.