Can you imagine a real-life Twilight Sparkle from “My Little Pony” stabbing someone in the chest and ripping out the victim’s intestines with their horn? If you can’t, Alex Scharfman’s new horror-comedy film “Death of a Unicorn” is sure to paint the picture delightfully dark red.
Loosely based on the real “Unicorn Tapestries” — famous textile Dutch depictions of unicorns from the late 13th century — “Death of a Unicorn” shows the mythical creatures as eloquently violent and vengeful. But not without a cause.
The plot kicks off with Elliot, played by Paul Rudd, and his daughter Ridley, played by Jenna Ortega, running over a unicorn on their way to a mansion owned by Elliot’s rich boss — Odell Leopold played by Richard E. Grant. After Leopold refuses to give the unicorn back because of the profitable healing properties in the creature’s blood and horn, the unicorns come for the corpse of their lost one-horned kin — and they don’t hold back.
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