Psycho Killer Unicorns and a Terrified Jenna Ortega Make SXSW Scream With the Gory ‘Death of a Unicorn’
variety.comAdam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Eviscerated bodies. Purple blood. And killer unicorns. That’s the recipe that made “Death of a Unicorn” one of the surprise discoveries at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, where it premiered on Saturday to a raucous reception.
The film follows father and daughter Elliot and Ridley Kintner (Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega), who are visiting Elliot’s billionaire boss Odell Leopold (Richard E.
Grant) at his lavish mansion deep in the Canadian wilderness. To their utter shock and disbelief, they accidentally hit a young unicorn while en route.
Because they’re in the middle of a nature preserve, they pack the body into their rental and bring it with them, hoping — in vain — to keep Odell, his smoothly unscrupulous wife Belinda (Tea Leoni) and his layabout, dilettante son Shepard (Will Poulter) unawares.
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