Death of a Unicorn

It was a pretty strong movie, I expected the worst, but, on the whole, it went very well) For their genres) Although some characters infuriated unrealistically, but this is a plus to their acting)

At first I wanted to say: What the hell is this?". After watching the film to the end, the impression of it has changed dramatically. The characters almost drove me crazy with their calmness, especially infuriating, but what a pleasure it was to watch them die! Anyway, unicorns are driving as always, and it was cool.

The film is billed as "horror, fantasy, comedy," but I would say it's more satire, ridiculing greed, greed, and the hypochondriacal superiority of man over nature. And if you take it that way, then it's quite a good movie. Rudd and Ortega are a great duo, and the only passable characters. I felt too sorry for the unicorn, it's always hard to see bullying of animals, even in this genre, but it was interesting to see such an interpretation of a fabulous horse. 🦄🩸

I went to it with full confidence that the film would leave a neutral impression, I'll say it right away.

what I'll mark after watching:

the plot is eerily banal: rich white men are looking for ways to cash in, but there is a beautiful virgin, pure of soul, who does not like such a plan.

I have a little bit of watching, but I guessed the whole plot from the beginning to the end, all the twists, nothing surprised me.

there are also advantages, the director's work, the shots are juicy, unicorns are a separate respect! good acting, once again you want to interact with them and scream "wrong way!", "run!", it's important to me, it means you're hooked

I rate the movie 3/5 - I can't put more than that, I recommend watching it in the background, immersion is not required

I'm upset that I saw it in the cinema. For me, the film is about child-parent relationships, human vices, and addiction. I had an expectation of a different kind of black humor, like in the Garvey Sisters or 4 weddings and one funeral. This is the first film that I have rated 3.

A good black-humorous fairy tale film, with elements of trash, blood loss and dismemberment. However, if Paul Rudd and Will Poulter are not without humor, then Jenna Ortega and Thea Leoni have given the heat! Unicorns are drawn coolly, each with its own character, their horns are also not the same, although this is strikingly different for a male, and for a cub and a female only in size, but some wolves get jealous. In general, the film, directed and written by Alex Sharfman, who had previously shot almost nothing, turned out to be surprisingly exciting and interesting. Naturally, it exposes vices, added a little family drama and fabulous fiction, of course. I was also pleased with the ending, which can serve as a continuation, or you can leave it as you want. My opinion is that you can watch it and it won't even be boring.

The film was a huge flop at the box office, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not that bad.
And we tried to do something funny and unusual, and we also got a good cast.
This is a stylish old-school black comedy that reeks of similar films from the 90s. the actors themselves are really pulling the movie. The game and the chemistry between them turned out great.
the plot shows the themes of family values and the principles of morality of the characters themselves, and besides, there is a good satire on the rich.
Unicorns are high, I would like to see more of them, but come on.
If you don't overestimate your expectations, you can easily spend time watching.

The movie (or rather the humor) is weird...
Unicorns with fluffy dragon faces and sounds are the best thing about this movie.
Despite the stubbornness and predictability of the plot, it leaves an aftertaste of magic and justice, there is something in it.

The plot of the film is not much, not what the viewer has recently become accustomed to receiving from the most striking A24 projects, but I liked it). The unicorns are gorgeous, the cast is very decent (and Jenna is a student here, but she still looks like a teenager, unlike Millie, who seems to be even younger), the slaughter is not bad either. Except that black humor could have been poured out more in addition to satire. So I sincerely don't understand his failure...

Weakly.
As trash it would fit, as horror it is very strained, although infernal unicorns are nothing like that.
For some reason, there are attempts at satire, but here everything is quite thin and banal.
In the end, there's a lot of snot about family values, although in this regard the film is even worse than horror and satire. I still don't understand why the horned ones didn't take revenge on the father, who not only knocked down the child, but also smashed his head, and then went to hunt the elders out of the most selfish motives. And then he was rewarded for it.

The cast is good, Ortega is good, but otherwise it's a waste of resources, where there wasn't even a reasonable script behind a decent director.

PS. A cheap move with a stolen motion detector sound from Someone Else's.

It's a satire, but there's not enough humor in the film to be called funny. And despite the bloodthirsty unicorns, I wouldn't call it scary. So it's not a comedy, and it's not a horror. It's just a one-time movie that you can only watch for the sake of Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, who played well. But if you don't look, you won't lose anything.

"Everyone will get a kick in the ass"
It's quite suitable for a one-time look. Cute unicorns nervously drinking in their corner 😄

During the viewing, I remembered memes about & #34;mistar loshed& # 34;

That's some kind of shit

In recent years, cinema has become obsessed with turning kind and good creatures from fairy tales into vengeful monsters. Although this metamorphosis is not entirely new with unicorns, myths and legends have often portrayed these ungulates as dangerous and vindictive. In his work, Alex Sharfman analyzes the reasons why unicorns are so angry at people. However, it's all the fault of human pathological greed.

Despite the fact that the film was released by Studio A24, it is worth reducing expectations before watching. This is a straightforward slasher, where deliberately caricatured rich people get what they deserve from those they want to cash in on. The best thing about the film is the homerically funny Will Poulter, who partly recalled the sketches of the silly image from "We are the Millers." It's equally funny to see the crazy contrast of his roles in the range of one month ("Under Fire"). The film itself offers not so much food for the mind as a dose of fast dopamine. This is also prompted by the fast editing, which jumps from one storyline to another, realizing that any opportunity to stop will reveal the excessive simplicity of the film.

It's kind of heavy, stuffy, and depressing in a family satire. And all the other questions are so banal that it was sometimes very boring and predictable to watch. Humor? Well, I expected more blackness from him.

I liked the movie, it's a very dynamic picture

Then, in the hospital room, I swore to her that I would do everything to take care of you, so that you would never need anything, everything is subordinated to this, every decision, every day. But I failed you both. And you don't really need what I'm doing to you, so maybe I was doing it for myself. Anyway, I'm sorry that you only have me left.

Great movie! Very addictive to watch, an unusual and interesting plot

Say "no" to drugs and "yes" to the pollen from the unicorn horn, a trail from which you could sniff together with Will Poulter, sitting in the Jacuzzi.
An original black comedy, with dry and funny humor, where unicorns disembowel people. When creating this absurd plot, the authors were definitely smoking something, but clearly with knowledge of the matter.

Funny movie) blood, guts and parental love)

I didn't regret watching it. A light film, the film makes you think about a lot. I really liked it.

The movie is for 1 time. But for a good one.

For an amateur. Even judging by the comments above, the viewers were divided into two camps: who liked it and who did not understand what was happening at all. I belong to the latter.

For me, the only advantages are caste and satire on the greed of people who already need little.

Otherwise, the film is set to background or speed 1.5. The jokes are not funny. Unicorns are the killers of kringe.

But if you liked the theme of the cure for all diseases and the desire to take possession of it, then I recommend watching the animated series "Common side effects". I liked it more than what I just watched)

A strange kinishko Came Out))

It's a strange but interesting movie... And what kind of unicorns are cute😍😍😍

I scored only for unicorns)))

It's a very cool movie.
It's even unexpected somehow) For the most part, I thought it would be so-so..
Unicorns certainly turned out well, you can't say anything.
You can see that they are so powerful and strong, and most importantly that they are loving parents 💖🦄

In the beginning, it seemed like I was watching some kind of crap, but after watching it to the end, I realized that the movie wasn't so bad. If there's nothing to watch, you can watch it once. I advise you to view it for those who like 50/50

Xenomorphs of the Jurassic Period

Lawyer Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) with his teenage daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) goes to the estate of the Leopold family, for whose company he works. On the way, dad and daughter get distracted and shoot down not just any moose or deer, but a whole unicorn. Elliot decides to finish off the unknown animal, saving it from agony, and hides it in the trunk of a car. However, there is no way to cancel an important business meeting, however, as well as to hide the unicorn's body for a long time from the Leopolds, who are looking for benefits everywhere.

"Death of a Unicorn" is the directorial debut project by Alex Sharfman, who has been producing horror films for a couple of decades. The recent "Trophy House" - in case anyone saw it - was his handiwork. The man got tired of standing on the sidelines, and with the support of Studio A24, known to all independents, as well as Ari Astaire himself ("Solstice", "Reincarnation"), he made a film based on his own idea. Moreover, Sharfman first had the concept of "Someone knocked down a unicorn" and for a long time he did not know what to do with it, and then decided to put the plot in the horror subgenre "monster movie".

Usually, the first attempts at creativity - be it films, books, etc. - come down to one of two results. Or they are redundant: there are too many things mixed up in them, because the creator has been accumulating all sorts of different things for a long time and now sublimates everything at once. Or, on the contrary, they are scarce, because the author is still not confident enough in himself and is afraid to take an extra step to the side.

The "Death of a Unicorn" is like both at the same time. In its current form, it can be miserably cut and fit into the frame of a short film. However, Sharfman lacks the skills to adequately stretch the story and fill it with a sufficient number of interesting characters and events. Moreover, the further away from the plot, the film becomes less and less complete, crumbling into strange and not very appropriate homages either towards "Aliens" (up to the sounds of the local motion sensor beeping and quoting scenes from there a la Marines preparing to hunt xenomorphs), or towards "Jurassic Park period" (as if he has few heirs trying to repeat his success even without the "Death of the Unicorn").

However, the first third of the picture looks quite promising. Take, for example, the black opening scene in which Rudd slaughters a unicorn with improvised means. Or the Leopold family itself with their servants, who are ready to do absolutely anything to get the most out of a downed unicorn and possessing its magical abilities. The son of Leopold is especially good (he was wonderfully played by Will Poulter from "We are the Millers", "Solstice", "Black Mirror: Brandashmyg").

But by the middle, it turns out that the author doesn't really have anything to say, except for a rather obvious anti-capitalist social commentary that has become a nuisance in this subgenre of horror films. We've all seen it in the person of John Hammond and InGen at the Park./Jurassic World" or the representative of the company "Weyland-Yutani" Carter Burke from "Aliens". We all know about the 1%, that capitalism is evil, and so on and so forth. And there would be some bright local heroes and antiheroes, but no. Jenna Ortega plays a typical teenager and, in general, any of her roles before that were more voluminous and elaborate. Paul Rudd is too serious in the frame - damn it, this is not an Oscar-winning drama, you can relax and mess around in the frame. Leopold's father and mother are not frostbitten enough, although they are not played by newcomers to the comedy Richard E. Grant and Thea Leoni. From beginning to end, the only thing that pleases is Will Poulter, both as an actor and as an antagonist. He was the only one who was a constant source of funny remarks and situations. Okay, it's not entirely true - Anthony Carrigan (the bald guy from the HBO series "Barry") also performed well in a cameo role, but there was very little of him, although he certainly decorated the frame.

As for the unicorns themselves, the design of the adults is, in my opinion, quite controversial (and kind of dirty). This is a mythical - moreover, a fabulous creature. There must be grace, grace, and beauty in him. So that their cruelty and bloodthirstiness stand in stark contrast to our ideas about them. And here came a parody of velociraptors from a second-rate horror movie. Yes, the motivation (yeah, imagine) of unicorns is normal, but not the appearance. That the episode of "Supernatural", that "Cabin in the Woods" at one time managed to better show the infernal unicorns. And the methods of killing here are quite monotonous.

Returning to two types of debuts: Alex Sharfman seemed to swing at the ruble in several directions at once, and eventually hit a penny in comedy, horror, drama, and social satire, barely touching on each of these sides. With such a weak coverage, there is no overload, but there is not enough integrity. In my opinion, it was necessary to turn on the maximum stupidity, or at the end go deep into the drama. However, maybe Sharfman will be better prepared next time. Or he will return to the producers again and will not interfere with other promising colleagues.

Rating: 5 Sacred Deer kills

fantastic game about unicorns. the attempt to make it a little funny also failed.

2.5/5🦄. In preparation for filming, Alex Sharfman carefully studied the myths about unicorns, starting with ancient Roman historians and the Old Testament. In addition, he studied the images of unicorns on tapestries - it's all wonderful and cool, but where is it all in the movie hahaha, Ortega just reads it in a meager run for a minute and also successfully forgets about it, and all the mysticism of unicorns ends with the fact that they are zombies running and killing at the same time, giving life with his blood and hypnotizing a little with his horn.

And where to laugh or be afraid or make fun of the rich?? Generally, satire has no root or filling. And Will Poulter was only a little pleased with the cast, who, as my friend put it, plays all kinds of fools perfectly (only in a rough form) and everyone in the picture is stupid, but only he pulls this strap, the rest are just not impressive. And it turns out Ortega is an extra element here, and unfortunately she probably thought that A24 was a trend and it would pull her to a steep level, but it sank her a little in a series of failures, Tim Burton save.

A normal movie, no excitement.
The cook/doorman was amused by his discretion in closing doors and windows. In general, there is nothing more to say.

Hospade, what terrible shit, what a mess, slag, bottom, filth...There is no logic, no sense, no humor, no morality, no idea, no hope....even the computer library there is at the level of 1989, they must have written in basic....fu-fu-get out