It was close to a year ago that we first saw anything about Horns, Keith Bunin and Alexandre Aja’s adaptation of Joe Hills’ novel. Following The Woman In Black, What If, A Young Doctor’s Notebook and his brilliant spot in Extras, Daniel Radcliffe continues to distance himself from the Harry Potter franchise. And good on him as he’s got the chops to make off-kilter roles like this and the ones above work. So if you haven’t been keeping up on Horns, then enjoy the first teaser trailer and poster below. In the aftermath of his girlfriend’s mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples. Directed…
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First Look At ‘Horns’: Everybody Hates Daniel Radcliffe
Did anybody on the Internet ever peg Daniel Radcliffe, mostly grown up from his days of playing the boy who lived, as a potential horror icon? Admittedly, he’s done more than just pop up in films like The Woman in Black since 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 premiered, raked in enough money to fill several dozen Olympic-sized swimming pools, and happily liberated Radcliffe from his franchising duties; notably, he has Kill Your Darlings, the Beat Generation biopic, coming up later this year and The F Word set for early 2014, and he’s expanded his theatrical resume with How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and The Cripple of Inishmaan, as…
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G-S-T Review…Piranha 3D
Well consider me sufficiently spoiled and even more desensitized as the “horror” bar, the “skin content” bar, and the “creature feature” bar have all been raised and reset by Alexandre Aja. In his latest film, Piranha 3D has reassessed what it means to go overboard (no boat pun intended) and over the top…and I loved every minute of it. While I have been pretty firm in my stance that 3D is yet another passing fad, this movie is proof positive that it’s probably not going away anytime soon. Piranha 3D carves out a comfortable niche in film where this revived technology can showcase a perfect middle ground between the gimmick 3D films of old…
