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‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: Paul Rudd Kills the Wrong Magical Creature in A24’s Biting Horror Satire
In 'Death of a Unicorn,' debuting director Alex Scharfman offers an amusingly dark take on one of the most beloved (and least seen) fantasy creatures.
Now comes writer-director Alex Scharfman ’s funny-sad A24 satire “ Death of a Unicorn,” which fits squarely within the indie studio’s bizart-house brand, using the title tragedy as license to make a highly eccentric and unapologetically grisly horror movie. Set in the present among an endearingly deplorable circle of self-anointed elites, Scharfman’s bold debut opens with a morally compromised lawyer, Elliot Kintner ( Paul Rudd), striking a unicorn with his rental car en route to a rich client’s remote compound. Elliot is late for his appointment with Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant), an ailing pharmaceutical honcho entering the final chapter of his fight against cancer, so the lawyer hastily cleans up and does his best to downplay the accident when he arrives at his employer’s enormous compound — a modern-day castle, situated in the middle of a wildlife preserve.
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