Death of a Unicorn
2025
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Director: Alex Scharfman
Cast: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani, Jessica Hynes, Steve Park, David Pasquesi
A lawyer and his daughter hit a unicorn on their way to a business meeting in the Canadian Rockies. While his billionaire boss is determined to study its horn and blood for miraculous healing properties, the other unicorns seek revenge. Alex Scharfman's directorial debut is an abysmal horror comedy, neither funny nor scary, with a premise too thin to sustain a full feature. Like many recent films, it portrays the ultra-rich as utterly despicable, yet Paul Rudd as the grovelling lawyer comes out of it as the most unpleasant character. Scharfman tells the story with all the subtlety of a hammer, while the performances are suitably shrill and exaggerated. To top it all off, the CGI unicorns look terrible.
