Here's the best thing about Death of a Unicorn: its cast. Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Richard E. Grant, Tea Leoni, Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan. The rest of everything about this movie? Bad. It's pretty bad.
As father (PR) and daughter (JO) are on their way to meet with PR's ultrawealthy clients, they hit a baby unicorn with their car. They don't kill it - although they think they do after PR tries to put it out of its misery with a tire iron - and they put it into their car, rather than leaving it on the side of the road. That evening, it becomes evident that unicorn blood has healing powers, having splashed all over PR and JO during the tire iron incident, and subsequently curing her acne and his nearsightedness and allergies. The client family are pharma-douches, and the patriarch (REG) is dying from cancer, so when the baby unicorn busts its way out of their car, they kill it (again) to use its blood to cure him. Everyone is very excited about all the money they're going to make - except for JO, who is sad - and they don't notice the parent unicorns coming to avenge their baby.
The unicorns are all CGI (there may have been one practical effect late in the game for a closeup) and it's very bad. It isn't scary and because the CGI is so awful, the gore is lame too, except for when TL gets her guts pulled out by the papa unicorn. Will Poulter is quite good and funny as the insufferable rich kid but Paul Rudd seems miscast. Terrible movie with really nothing to redeem it, cannot recommend. I mean, this poster is cool though.
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