Review: Horns

16th October 2014

Hi! Vince your friendly neighbourhood reviewer here and im gonna tell you why ‘Horns’ is the movie you should check out this Halloween weekend.

So if you’re not aware, ‘Horns’ is the new movie starring Daniel Radcliffe and its pretty freaking awesome. The film tells the story of Ig and Merrin(Juno Temple), a young couple devoted to each other but when Merrin is murdered, Ig becomes the prime suspect and the entire town is out for blood. Hated and alienated Ig fosakes the world and God for taking her away from him; This results in Ig waking up to find horns growing out of his head. Ig begins to notice that the horns have a strange effect on people as they begin revealing their secrets and acting on Ig’s command and Ig sets out to solve Merrin’s murder and clear his name.

That premise is pretty god damn awesome right? It should, its based on a book by Joe Hill(Stephen King’s son) and with a writing pedigree like that you know you’re in for a great story. The film manages to be dark and disturbing in places with great comedy thrown in too. The performances are great from all involved and Heather Graham even pops up, still hot too. For the sake of balance i should probably say that Dan Radcliffe’s looking pretty badass in this movie and i must admit i had a little bit of a man crush on him in this movie. Aside from the hotness, this movie is very well put together, the effects are awesome and the soundtrack is great. There’s some truly heartfelt sections which make you really care for the characters and some great gut punches in there too.

The one thing that I really loved about this movie is that it’s basically a film noir where the protagonist slowly turns into a demon. Everyone has a secret and it’s Ig’s job to solve the mystery, get the killer and clear his name while fending off a town that’s hungry for blood. Thats why this film’s awesome, it has heart and balls, it’ll never win awards but it will end up becoming a bit of a cult classic I suspect. In a time where the market is ssturated with Superhero movies and dystopian teen flicks this films dares to be different.

The film hits theatres on the 29th and is totally worth your time and money this halloween season.

9/10

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