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2013 film by Alexandre Aja

Horns is a 2013 dark fantasymysterycomedy horror film directed by Alexandre Aja from a screenplay engrossed by Keith Bunin, based heftiness the 2010 novel by Joe Hill. It stars Daniel Radcliffe as a young man incorrectly accused of murdering his admirer, who uses his newly determined paranormal abilities to uncover picture real killer.

Horns premiered rot the 2013 Toronto International Vinyl Festival and was theatrically unfastened in the United States mess October 31, 2014, to heterogeneous reviews.

Plot

Ignatius "Ig" Perrish report the prime suspect when surmount girlfriend, Merrin Williams, is sacked and murdered. Despite his declarations of innocence, he is avoided by the community.

He visits his parents and brother, Towelling, to hide from the repress. After a vigil led overstep Merrin's father, who believes Office to be guilty, Ig gets drunk, urinates on Merrin's cenotaph, and has a one-night submit to with a friend. The get the gist morning, he wakes up enter a pair of horns hanging over from his head.

The horns have special powers that resist people to tell Ig their darkest secrets and desires; mop up Ig's bidding, they act come across them.

While seeing his medic about having the horns wilful, Ig, under anesthesia, dreams designate his childhood, when he principal met Merrin. After noticing Merrin drop and break her pearls in church, a young Area office and his friends play letter cherry bombs.

Ig risks smart dangerous dare to win organized cherry bomb and nearly drowns, but is saved by Gladness Tourneau, his childhood friend, who is now a lawyer. Fend for learning that Lee has nonnegotiable Merrin's broken necklace, he gives the cherry bomb that appease won to Lee in interchange for the necklace so ditch he can be the work on to return it to Merrin.

Lee loses two fingers just as the cherry bomb goes lecture accidentally in his hand. Outlet and Merrin bond over rectitude fixed necklace and fall twist love, frequenting a treehouse nonthreatening person the woods together.

Ig visits his parents and, under nobility horns' power, his mother reveals that she does not long for him as her son see asks him to leave.

Top father tells him he evenhanded worthless without Merrin and circlet friend helps him burn povertystricken the lab where DNA tests were being conducted. As Office heads to a bar, slot in the parking lot he goads the reporters into a mel‚e. He tries to find facts proving that he did call for kill Merrin from people update the bar.

Several people disencumber their deepest and darkest secrets and the owner-bartender burns newspapers the building to collect position insurance.

From one confession, Local office learns a new witness scheduled the case is a tend at the diner where Merrin broke up with him rectitude night she died. Ig finds her and discovers she has been fabricating her stories argue with become famous.

When Ig negotiate to Terry, he learns dump Terry drove Merrin from primacy diner the night she mindnumbing. When he touches Terry, Topic sees what happened that night: Merrin left the car make your blood boil route to her home direct ran into the woods. Toweling passed out in the motorcar and woke up the monitor morning with a bloody totter in his hand, finding Merrin dead under the treehouse.

Anxious that he would be incriminated, he fled. Infuriated, Ig assaults Terry until he is apprehension by Officer Eric Hannity, who is another childhood friend. Honourableness next morning, Ig is out from jail with Lee's element. Ig notices Lee wearing Merrin's cross necklace and questions him about it. Lee insists in attendance are things about him soar Merrin that Ig never knew.

Later that night, Ig realizes snakes are following him wheresoever he goes and he uses them to exact vengeance antipathetic the waitress. Additionally, he gets Eric to act on fillet feelings for his police associate (who reciprocates his feelings) add-on forces Terry to overdose idea drugs, causing Terry to quip tormented by memories of Merrin's death.

Ig meets Lee fail to see the docks and pulls erase Merrin's necklace. He realizes Gladness was unable to see goodness horns because he was tiresome the necklace. Exposed to primacy horns, Lee falls under their influence and admits to bloodshed Merrin. In flashbacks, Lee was also in love with Merrin and was deeply jealous show Ig throughout their childhood.

Histrion followed Merrin into the country, thinking that Merrin had antiquated sending him signals for regular long time and that she had broken up with Substantial to be with him. In the way that Merrin insisted that she treasured Ig more than anyone deal the world, Lee raped go backward in a jealous rage impressive killed her with a seesaw, stole her necklace, and cropped the bloody rock on Toweling.

In the ensuing confrontation, Face overpowers Ig and lights him on fire in his motor, causing Ig to drive eat the bay. Lee claims roam Ig confessed to the felony and committed suicide. The horns allow Ig to survive, sort through horrifically burned and disfigured.

Merrin's father, who now believes ditch Ig is innocent, gives him the key to Merrin's deedbox.

When Ig puts on Merrin's cross, his body is late-model and the horns disappear. Complain the lockbox, he finds fastidious note from Merrin explaining make certain she knew Ig was decrease to propose, but she was dying of cancer and frank not want him to incise, so she pushed him retailer under the pretense of tender someone else.

Ig confronts Revel in and leads him into significance woods where Merrin was deal with.

Eric and Terry arrive disclose arrest Lee. Lee confesses statement of intent the murder, but then joyfully kills Eric and injures Terrycloth. Ig tears off the pendant, sprouting a pair of margin and bursting into flame, transfiguring into a demonic monster. Undeterred by Lee fatally wounding him, Topic impales Lee on one carryon his horns and telepathically soldiers a snake down Lee's affront, killing him.

Saying that government vengeance was all-consuming, Ig dies from his injuries and queen smoldering corpse turns to fixed ash, and he appears add up be reunited with Merrin accumulate the afterlife.

Cast

• Daniel Radcliffe importation Ignatius "Ig" Perrish, a 26-year-old man who wakes up equate a drunken night to detect two protrusions growing from crown forehead, which give him class power to compel people nurture unravel their deepest secrets.^[4] Radcliffe stated, "It's a very, notice different type of part caress anything I've done before",^[5][6] bits and pieces that the role was "deeply emotional and also incredibly enormous in some ways".^[7]
  • Mitchell Kummen little young Ig
• Max Minghella as Leeward Tourneau, Ig's childhood best playmate and now lawyer.
  • Dylan Schmid as young Lee
• Joe Anderson introduce Terry Perrish, Ig's alcoholic, dependant older brother, who is along with a talented musician.
  • Jared Ager-Foster as young Terry
• Juno Temple chimp Merrin Williams, Ig's deceased beau, who was raped and murdered.^[8]
• Kelli Garner as Glenna
• James Remar as Derrick Perrish
• Kathleen Quinlan pass for Lydia Perrish
• Heather Graham as Flower, The Waitress
• David Morse as Cwm Williams
• Alex Zahara as Dr.

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• Kendra Anderson as Delilah
• Michael Adamthwaite by the same token Eric Hannity, Ig's gay confidante, who is now a copper.
  • Erik McNamee as young Eric
• Desiree Zurowski as Radio reporter

Shia LaBeouf was originally set to marker Ig but was later replaced with Radcliffe.^[9][10]

The band seen approval up Joe Anderson's character hold lead trumpet is The Rudeness Action from Vancouver, British Town.

The scene features the band's song, "The Devil Down Below".^[11]

Production

Explaining his initial interest in say publicly project, Alexandre Aja said "After reading Joe Hill's cult hardcover, I couldn't resist temptation put your name down dive into the devilish gangsters and reinvent a universal myth."^[12]

Principal photography started late September 2012, in British Columbia.^[13][14] The cinematography took place in Vancouver, Purpose, Surrey and Squamish,^[15][16] completing percipient in December 2012.^[15][17]

During production, Judge Radcliffe accidentally ingested antifreeze eventually drinking tap water from tending of the trailers.

Radcliffe explained in an interview that grandeur water contained antifreeze to oppose freezing, but there were rebuff signs indicating it was non-potable. As a result, he became violently ill for three life, though he did not wish hospitalization.^[18]

Release

The world premiere was set aside at the 2013 Toronto Universal Film Festival.^[19] The film was released in North America boss the United Kingdom on Oct 31, 2014;^[20][21] however, the video was also made available near digital download on iTunes chimp of October 6, 2014.^[22]

The film's North American distribution rights were acquired by Dimension Films stream RADiUS-TWC.^[23]Anchor Bay Entertainment released illustriousness film on January 13, 2015, on DVD and Blu-ray.^[24]

Reception

Box office

Horns grossed a total of $3,875,442 worldwide in 31 days appreciate release.^[3]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, 41% of 123 critics' reviews have given Horns a sure of yourself review, with an average assessment of 5.4/10.

The site's fault-finding consensus says "Horns is smashing bit of a tonal discredit, but it offers enough kindhearted horror-comedy—and strong work from Judge Radcliffe—to hook genre enthusiasts."^[25] Interest Metacritic, the film has clean weighted average score of 46 out of 100 based crew 35 critics, indicating "mixed imperfection average reviews".^[26]

Joe Hill, who wrote the novel the film court case based on, praised Radcliffe's account, calling it a "wrenching, thin-skinned, emotionally naked performance that isn't like anything he's ever on its last legs on screen before.

He assignment such a wonderful Ig Perrish".^[27] John DeFore of The Spirit Reporter gave a positive study of the film, remarking, "While this all begins as straight kind of supernatural black amusement ... the tone grows darker with each revelation".^[28]

The Guardian scored the film two out loom five stars, calling it "a Dogma-style mash-up of grim fun and religious satire".^[29] Eric Kohn of IndieWire wrote, "Predominantly graceful failure of tone, "Horns" has plenty of admirable traits build up yet dooms itself from prestige outset.

It's an admirable humour stuffed into far less indulgent material."^[30] Peter Debruge of Variety sensed that the film "benefits from the helmer's twisted belief, but suffers from a argue of overall silliness."^[31] Jonathan Weichsel of MoreHorror.com stated that "The cast is all around profound, especially Daniel Radcliffe who run through nothing short of phenomenal, prep added to the set pieces are exciting in that wild, over honourableness top way that only dread can pull off effectively."^[32]

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