Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

How sad is this?

Expected more

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his temples. Horns is far from a masterpiece and it has it's weird moments for sure like the whole telepathy thing everytime the protagonist was touching someone or the gay scene in the police car was pretty disgusting but it also has it's great moments which is Daniel Radcliffe as a whole cause he truly did a fantastic job and the same goes for Juno Temple and the rest of the cast was fine too plus the special effects? Were outstanding. (7.0/10)

If you've not seen the Exorcist, the Shining or A Nightmare On Elm Street, don't watch it. It didn't scare me but I found it sad that a best friend was betrayed and framed and a terminally ill adolescent was assaulted and murdered. I felt relief that the protagonist got vengeance on the antagonist. Good movie!

I'm sorry to be that guy, but the book was so much better. I never expect movies to be 100% faithful adaptations of books, because they would usually have to run four hours or more. Choices must be made. Things must be cut. But the cutting seemed particularly painful here. We got almost none of Lee's backstory, which, in the book, helps explain why he turned out the way he did and gives hints about what is to come. We don't see the development of Lee and Ig's friendship, which is essential to understand how Ig feels about Lee. Merrin is basically turned into a sex object here, instead of an interesting and confident young woman. Glenna is such a useless, throwaway character in the movie, it's worth asking why she was even included. The characters, who are all well-fleshed-out in the book, appeared shallow and one-dimensional in this movie. And these cuts came to allow for some bizarre additions. The fight between the reporters? Terry's hallucination sequence? Gratuitous treehouse sex scenes? I'd much rather have had some more character development.Overall, not terrible. Daniel Radcliffe does a pretty decent job as Ig - his American accent is believable, and while he verges on over-acting from time to time, he generally nails the sense of confusion, desperation, and finally acceptance that Ig possesses. If you're intrigued by the premise, though, I'd recommend the book instead. The author, Joe Hill, is Stephen King's son, and shows his father's flair for the creepy.

'Horns' is an utterly unique movie experience that had me (and my entire family!) hooked from beginning to end. It blends various genres that you wouldn't expect to work, but the result is an intriguing and engaging movie that evokes the whole human spectrum of emotion. Daniel Radcliffe's performance as the lead, Ig, is amazing and having spent my entire life unable to separate him from Harry Potter, this is the performance that broke him away from Harry Potter forever in my mind. Ig's character is intriguing and the question that was in my mind throughout was whether he was good or bad, the protagonist or the antagonist. The implication at the beginning is that he's grown the horns due to the evil he's committed, but as you follow him throughout the movie and see his humanity, you find yourself questioning that more and more. The idea behind the horns is somewhat unclear and ambiguous (which was one of the main issues I had with the movie), but they result in some rather dark yet humorous encounters that I thoroughly enjoyed watching. The religious connotations attached to the horns were also somewhat unambiguous and there were certain scenes towards the end that felt a little ridiculous and 'out there' even for this movie. However, I'm able to let that go on the basis that I enjoyed the movie as a whole. The plot itself evolves throughout the movie as it weaves in and out the various themes and genres, but by the end its focus is very much on the mystery and romance. Although it's definitely a flawed movie that could've been vastly improved by clearer explanations for the horns, the experience overall is enjoyable and unique. The themes of horror, thriller, mystery, romance, fantasy, religion and crime all come together in a very new way to create a movie that is very much a stand alone in the horror genre.