Horns (film)
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| Directed by | Alexandre Aja |
| Produced by | Alexandre Aja Riza Aziz Joey McFarland Cathy Schulman Joe Hill |
| Screenplay by | Keith Bunin |
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Horns by Joe Hill |
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Daniel Radcliffe Max Minghella Joe Anderson Juno Temple Kelli Garner Sabrina Carpenter James Remar Kathleen Quinlan Heather Graham David Morse |
| Music by | Robin Coudert |
| Cinematography | Frederick Elmes |
| Edited by | Baxter |
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Dimension Films RADiUS-TWC |
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.9 million |
Horns is a 2013 American dark fantasy horror film directed by Alexandre Aja, loosely based on Joe Hill's novel of the same name. Daniel Radcliffe stars as a man who is accused of raping and murdering his girlfriend (Juno Temple) and uses his newly discovered paranormal abilities to uncover the real killer.
The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 31, 2014.
Ignatius "Ig" Perrish becomes the prime suspect when his girlfriend Merrin is raped and murdered. Despite his declarations of innocence, he is shunned by the community. He stays with his parents and brother Terry, hiding from the press. After a vigil led by Merrin's father, who believes Ig to be guilty, Ig drinks heavily, urinates over Merrin's memorial, and wakes up with a pair of horns protruding from his head.
While at his doctor to try and remove his horns, Ig, under anesthesia, dreams of his childhood, when he first met Merrin. A young Ig and his friends play with cherry bombs; Ig risks a dangerous dare to win a cherry bomb, and nearly drowns, but is saved by Lee, his childhood friend and now-lawyer. He later trades the cherry bomb with Lee in exchange for fixing Merrin's broken necklace; however, Lee loses two fingers when the cherry bomb goes off accidentally. Ig and Merrin bond over the fixed necklace and fall in love, frequenting a treehouse in the woods together.
The horns are revealed to force people around Ig to tell him their darkest secrets and desires, which, under Ig's bidding, they act upon. Ig goes to visit his parents, but under the power of the horns his mother reveals that she doesn't want him as her son, while his father tells him that he is worthless without Merrin and that a friend of his helped him burn down the lab where DNA tests were being conducted. Ig goes to a bar, where he goads the reporters into a brawl and attempts to find evidence that he didn't kill Merrin. Several people confess their deepest secrets, and the bartender burns down the building.
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