Movie: Death of a Unicorn (2025) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

Death of a Unicorn

Came out; 2025

Time; 1 hours 47 Minutes

Watched: Max

Rated: R for strong violent content, gore, language and some drug use

IMDB Rating; 5.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 53%

Popcorn Meter 76%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Paul Rudd as Elliot

Jenna Ortega as Ridley

Will Poulter as Shepard

Tea Leoni as Belinda

David Pasquesi as Pilot

Anthony Carrigan as Griff

Richard E Grant as Odell

Jessica Hynes as Shaw

Story Line;

Elliot and Ridley Kintner, a father-daughter duo, accidentally strike a wayward animal with their car while traveling to a weekend vacation. What begins as a bizarre and unfortunate accident descends into pandemonium involving a billionaire boss, supernatural healing, and some very angry parents.

Thoughts:

This was different. There haven't been many movies even close to this.

This starts off a little slow, then it picks up almost right away. It's funny and has some serious moments.

I would watch it again. My only thought was: Did the people who own the resort know about the unicorns?

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Elliot Kintner and his teenage daughter Ridley are spending a weekend at the estate of Elliot's boss, Odell Leopold, and his family- his wife Belinda and son Shepard. On the way, Elliot accidentally strikes and injures a small unicorn with his car. When Ridley touches its horn, she experiences strange, cosmic visions, which Elliot abruptly stops by bludgeoning the creature with a tire iron, splashing blood on them both.

The Kintners arrive at the Leopolds' estate with the unicorn's body hidden in their car. Shortly after, Ridley discovers that the unicorn's blood has cleaned away the acne on her face; Elliot's vision has also improved, and his allergies are gone. The Leopolds eventually discover the unicorn still alive in the car, and Leopolds' assistant Shaw shoots it. Upon learning that the unicorn has magical healing properties, Odell suggests they experiment with it.

A group of scientists working for the Leopolds, led by Dr. Song, create a concoction by grating off some of the unicorn's horn, which cures Odell of his cancer. Odell orders the unicorn taken to their laboratory for further testing, planning to monetize its healing properties. Having read the story behind The Unicorn Tapestries, Ridley argues that the Leopolds should not be misusing the body of the unicorn, but they dismiss her concerns. As the unicorn is being transported to a laboratory, a pair of much larger unicorns kill Song and several security personnel before disappearing into the woods. Odell organizes a hunting party and insists that Elliot join them.

Shepard steals a vial of the unicorn's grated horn, which he snorts, and orders another scientist, Dr. Bhatia, to saw off the entire horn. Ridley realizes the unicorn is a foal and is still alive. Meanwhile, Elliot and the hunting party fall into a lethal trap set by the older unicorns. Several people are killed, including Odell and Shaw. Elliot returns to the estate, where they realize that the unicorns are the foal's parents. The group sends Bhatia to offer the foal back to the unicorns. Upon realizing its horn has been removed, the unicorns kill her while Griff, the butler, flees.

The unicorns follow the remaining survivors into the estate. Shepard and Belinda hide in the wine cellar and Shepard proposes an idea of a unicorn ranch to breed them to harvest their blood and horn but one unicorn breaks through and Belinda is disembowelled by one of them. Elliot apologizes to Ridley and, having stolen the horn, lures the other unicorn outside so she can escape. Ridley is caught and held at arrow-point by Shepard, having learned that unicorns are docile toward "a pure-hearted maiden" after experiencing visions from snorting the horn. The parent unicorns arrive and are immediately docile to Ridley. As Shepard ties up the unicorns' legs, Elliot stabs him with the horn, only to get stabbed back with an arrow.

Shepard collapses and is fatally kicked by one of the unicorns. Ridley describes her visions to Elliot as he dies. Seeing Ridley mourning him, the unicorns magically revive Elliot and their foal and leave peacefully. Griff returns with the police, who promptly arrest the Kintners. As they are being driven away, the unicorns return and ram the police car, which swerves off the road as they brace for impact.