Acquisitions – Indie Films

Impulse Purchase; Dimension & RADiUS-TWC Team for Alexandre Aja’s “Horns”

Published on October 4, 2013

There’ll calling it an off-beat supernatural thriller, where’ll calling it a welcome departure from the filmmaker who balsted onto the scene with a great Euro-horror sample High Tension. Starring a robust Daniel Radcliffe, Deadline reports that Alexandre Aja’s Horns has been picked up post-TIFF in an all Weinstein tag-team deal by Dimension and RADiUS-TWC. A 2014 release is in the cards.

Gist: Based on the novel by comic book author Joe Hill, blamed for the brutal murder of his longtime girlfriend (Juno Temple), a small-town guy (Daniel Radcliffe) awakens one morning to find a pair of horns growing from his head.

Worth Noting: Dimension previously released Alex Aja’s Piranha 3D.

Do We Care?: This was among the better offerings at this year’s Midnight Madness section at TIFF (programmers called it “a surreal storyline are evocative of the much beloved cult hit Twin Peaks,” with rave reviews going to Aja’s style and Radcliffe’s perf.

Related Topics:Alexandre Aja, Dimension Films, Horns, Radius-TWC, U.S Indie Films

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).