Death of a Unicorn

Name: Death of a Unicorn
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Released: March 28, 2025
Rating: 51
Cast: Anthony Carrigan, Jenna Ortega, Jessica Hynes, Nicholas Wittman, Paul Rudd

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A24 | Release Date: March 28, 2025 | Not Rated

Starring: Anthony Carrigan, Jenna Ortega, Jessica Hynes, Nicholas Wittman, Paul Rudd, Richard E. Grant, Steve Park, Sunita Mani, Téa Leoni, Will Poulter

Summary: A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.

Director: Alex Scharfman

Genre(s): Horror, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

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The Playlist Chase Hutchinson

Mar 8, 2025

It all makes for a clever, measured, mirthful, and joyous film with the real potential to be a modern monster movie classic whose legs could easily see it sprinting into being a routine rewatch every single year. Read full review

Rocco T. Thompson

Mar 9, 2025

Death of a Unicorn taps into the anti-capitalist strain in late-20th-century monster movies from Alien to Jurassic Park by tracing a clever through line from the unicorns of antiquity to the present. Read full review

Looper Reuben Baron

Mar 12, 2025

Not a great movie, but "horror-comedy where unicorns kill rich people" is the sort of high concept that guarantees some level of entertainment, and excellent casting helps compensate for its weaknesses on the screenplay level. Read full review

Chris Vognar

Mar 26, 2025

The blinkered greed of the ruling class makes for pretty low-hanging fruit, and “Death of a Unicorn” can come off as smug and exceedingly pleased with itself. Writer/director Alex Scharfman runs out of places for his story to move as the plot fails to thicken. Read full review

Robert Abele

Apr 1, 2025

What should be a nasty hoot, however, is closer to a ho-hum. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Mar 12, 2025

The lurching between genres, whether horror or comedy or heartfelt father-daughter movie, becomes increasingly transparent and frustrating as the movie tries to win our hearts back over with sentimental weepie moments in the film’s last act. Read full review

The Times Kevin Maher

Apr 11, 2025

It doesn’t help either that the cheap-looking CGI unicorns are wildly unconvincing or that Jenna Ortega, as Elliot’s disaffected daughter Ridley, seems to have wandered on to the set from a different and far more subtle movie. Read full review

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