Actor Daniel Radcliffe is devilish in an AMC Gremlin

The devil is used to driving the finest cars in movies. Not so in Daniel Radcliffe's Horns.

The horned fellow has to drive a beat-up old orange AMC Gremlin in the film in theaters (and Apple iTunes). Oh, the indignity of it all.

Radcliffe points out that it was essential to have the signature car, widely considered one of the worst cars ever built, to stay to author Joe Hill's original horror story.

"If we had changed the car in the book there would have been a great outcry," says Radcliffe. "It's absolutely one of the things people associate with that character, the orange Gremlin."

Radcliffe, 25, admits he doesn't have a U.S. driver's license. So he didn't mind driving the clunker.

"Dude, I don't drive. For me it seemed fine," says Radcliffe. "I'm sure other people would say there are better cars. But I enjoyed my Gremlin."

Besides, driving the inexpensive car took the pressure off for his set maneuvers.

"I'm not the best driver in the world, I''m just grateful I didn't smash anything," says Radcliffe. "I just did my best not to plow into the lawn ornaments near the house I was driving into each day."

In fact, one of the trickiest shots in the whole movie involved driving the Gremlin. Of course, it also involved a scene in which Radcliffe's devil character had a snake around his neck.

"Now that was frightening," says Radcliffe.