Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega play a father and daughter who run down a mystical beast and end up running amok with a monstrous brood.
Led by a cast that includes Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Richard E. Grant and Will Poulter, this so-so horror-comedy is marred by tonal swings and subpar execution.
"Death of a Unicorn," in theaters Friday, loses track of the comedy by failing to ground its outrageous premise in reality.
Before you take your unicorn-loving child to go see the new Jenna Ortega movie, Death of a Unicorn—which opens in theaters this weekend—you should know that this is a horror movie produced by Midsommar director Ari Aster.
The last weekend of March is a packed box office affair as five new titles—A Working Man, Death of a Unicorn, The Woman in the Yard, The Penguin Lessons, and The Chosen: Last Supper—debut in theaters.
A bloody Big Pharma horror-satire gets stuck on its own horn.
It’s increasingly difficult to get people under 40—or, for that matter, anybody—out to movie theaters, but in the past few years, one genre has held consistent allure: Fantasy and fantasy-horror, movies fixated on wild scenarios and manufactured,
Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star in a gory comedy about an attempt to exploit the healing power of unicorns—and the violent destruction it unleashes.