Legendary creatures. Film stars. And the studio that just lately gave the world The Brutalist and Sing Sing. We in all probability have been all the time going to be at the very least a bit intrigued by Dying of a Unicorn, the upcoming darkish comedy starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd that’s oh, so A24 that it even deliberately misspelled “unicorn” by means of old-timey early trendy English when it was first introduced. (Its unique title was Dying of a Unicorne, which may be becoming when one is aware of the writer-director Alex Scharfman beforehand labored on Robert Eggers’ The Witch.)
Nonetheless, when this morning’s gloriously batshit trailer got here round, it revealed that along with having simply pure buckets of other cool youngsters cred, Dying of a Unicorn additionally pivots on greater than the merciless slaughter of those majestic beasts from ye olden occasions… it’s also a horror-ish film the place a unicorn’s horn holds the secrets and techniques to curing most cancers… simply good luck getting it when these little ponies are revealed to be absolute man-eaters!
Certainly, with a bemusing use of the basic Seashore Boys banger, “Good Vibrations,” Dying of a Unicorn options Wednesday’s Ortega reverse America’s new favourite dad, Rudd, because the pair are driving into the woods for a fateful work journey that goes horribly awry after they make roadkill of a unicorn. However quicker than you’ll be able to say “Tommy Boy,” the magic animal proves to be solely largely useless. And by the point they get to the movie’s different forged of characters, together with Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, and Will Poulter—the latter of whom appears to be having completely the time of his life mugging for the digital camera—the creature is revealed to be on the rebound.
After untold bloody hijinks ensue, our quintet of characters have the unwise concept to harness the unicorn’s enchanted properties to remedy all illness and illness… however in actuality they may solely be inviting themselves to study what the legendary steed’s digestive tract appears like.
