Ahead of “Horns” Oct. 31 release, the film’s director and writer Alexandre Aja visited TheWrap‘s Comic-Con video lounge at the “Walking Dead Escape” in San Diego to discuss the upcoming project with reporter Greg Gilman.
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The movie is based on Joe Hill‘s novel by the same name, a book that Aja says blew him away. “I mean, that’s what really got me in the beginning, when I read Joe Hill‘s book, ‘Horns,’ four years ago when I was finishing ‘Piranha.’ I got completely blown away about how that crime mystery around this young man trying to find out who killed his girlfriend and having horns growing on his head … was like an amazing kind of shifting of tone,” Aja explained. “I knew that I had to make the movie … I just wanted to make a movie that has all those ingredients.”
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While the trailer is mysterious and leaves much to the imagination, Aja does offer some insight to the plot of the film and the casting of Daniel Radcliffe.
Watch the video above.