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A Terrified Jenna Ortega and Psycho Killer Unicorns Make SXSW Scream With the Gory ‘Death of a Unicorn’
“Death of a Unicorn,” with Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd, premiered to a raucous reception at the SXSW Film & TV Festival.
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. Writer-director Alex Scharfman, making an auspicious directorial debut, had the audience rolling in cycles of uproarious laughter, terrified screams, and triumphant cheers as (spoiler alert for the thing that happens in these movies) the Leopolds are dispatched in outlandishly gory ways. The audience reserved their loudest and longest applause for Anthony Carrigan, who just about steals the movie with his largely wordless performance as the Leopold’s long-suffering butler, Griff.
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