Horns Movie Review: In This Visually Impressive, Narratively Weak Horror Comedy, The Harry Potter Actor Goes Devilish

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"Horns" is the form of concept that just didn't shift successfully from books to big screen. In the film we meet Daniel Radcliffe's character, Ig Perrish, young slacker type hipsters with an amazing thing in his life, Merrin his girlfriend, played by Juno Temple. Ig and Merrin fell in love as kids and have the type of deep love that most people wishes for. That happy story should've led in wedding bells, but sadly, life had much more unfortunate pans for the great couple.

After a bad fight with Merrin, Ig wakes in a hangover to see his forever shattered world. Merrin is dead, and Ig is the main suspect, instantly changed into a feared, hated and social pariah by all those who used to be his friends or acquaintances. Everything turn into supernatural when Ig wakes up to see two protruding and devilish horns from his forehead.

Ig tries to seek help; he searches for people who indulges in their worst desires and instantly divulge their deepest sins. He was cursed, and slowly sees his own sins and desire to use this new and mysterious power so that uncover the truth to what happened to his girlfriend.

The film is adapted from the novel of Joe Hill, the story brings together Daniel Radcliffe and Alexandre Aja. The movie has good and great performances, but the devils is in the application and Horns can't create a tonally and clear vision of the novel, definitely getting lost in a substance.

Aja's signature style of arthouse horror was put together in this film, while unflinching rawness that goes overboard of the absurd at times. His trademark is particularly effective at materializing the horn effect scenes on the big screen, and Horns is at its best when get to cut loose with the black comedy and darkness, also including that indie character of drama in driving the movie. Aja dabbles in every stage style character talks to mixed surrealist imagery with religious iconography. Horns is now showing in theaters, it is Rated R for some graphic nudity, language, drug abuse and sexual assault.

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