Daniel Radcliffe fans cause stampede in Venice

There's still no cure for Harry Potter fever it seems...

Despite not having played the bespectacled boy wizard since 2011, Daniel Radcliffe appears to have maintained the same fanatical fanbase.

According to reports, on his arrival at the Venice Film Festival, fans began to mob him as he arrived on the Lido.

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Despite the fact that he was surrounded by police and security, fans still managed to push their way through into the toilet with him as he was taking a break between press conferences.

With the crowd beating at the windows of the conference venue, he told the press: “Thankfully, it's not always like this.

“I've been dealing with it in various ways since I was 11. I don't take it seriously, actually I think it's funny.

“I'm incredibly grateful for the swirl of support behind me. My fans seem excited by the unconventional path I am taking.”

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Radcliffe is at the festival with his latest movie 'Kill Your Darlings', in which he plays a young version of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

“I love poetry and it was fantastic to get the part and have the opportunity to dive into Ginsberg's life. The diaries he made when he was young gave me an amazing insight into his character,” he said of the film.

'Kill Your Darlings', directed by John Krokidas and also starring Elizabeth Olson, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall and Ben Foster, is due out in the UK on November 8.

It's among a number of leftfield projects chosen by Radcliffe.

Next up is 'Horns', a fantasy thriller which sees his character grow horns and take on paranormal abilities in order to clear his name from a terrible crime.

“It’s a very, very different type of part than anything I’ve done before,” he has said of the role. “To play somebody who, in the midst of a time in his life of great turmoil anyway, undergoes this horrific transformation into a devil character – it was very, very exciting.”