Death Of A Unicorn Review: I’m Here For The Gruesome Horror And Comedy, Not So Much For Jenna Ortega And Paul Rudd’s Family Drama

Death Of A Unicorn Review: I’m Here For The Gruesome Horror And Comedy, Not So Much For Jenna Ortega And Paul Rudd’s Family Drama

Film

Genre storytelling often involves the reiteration of certain tropes and ideas, with new twists and contexts helping modern projects stand apart from their influences. It’s a practice that 2024’s dread-filled thriller Heretic hinged on, and writer-director Alex Scharfman’s first feature, the fantastical horror-comedy Death of a Unicorn, sounds on paper like a dovetailed mix between I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Simpsons’ “Burger Kings.”

Death Of A Unicorn

(Image credit: A24)

Release Date: March 28, 2025
Directed By: Alex Scharfman
Written By: Alex Scharfman
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan
Rating: R for strong violent content, gore, language and some drug use.
Runtime: 104 minutes

Thankfully, despite any arguable surface-level similarities shared, Death of a Unicorn is a madcap morality tale unto itself, mashing together two families with wildly differing ideologies on how to approach an accidental conundrum that could change the course of human history. It is perhaps unfortunate that one family — widower Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) and his thorny daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) — often feels ported from a more homogenized version of the script when sharing scenes with the magnificent Leopold clan.

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