Writer and director Alex Sharfman’s splurchy dark comedy carves itself into halves, a clever first half followed by a more routine second one. Yet it’s a feature film debut signalling a filmmaker of actual wit.

A creature is dead, and it’s a unicorn. You have likely already guessed this, as the movie is called “Death of a Unicorn.” Unfortunately, Alex Scharfman’s film — he wrote, directed and ...

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.

It’s increasingly difficult to get people under 40—or, for that matter, anybody—out to movie theaters, but in the past few years, one genre has held consistent allure: Fantasy and fantasy-horror, movies fixated on wild scenarios and manufactured,

A bloody Big Pharma horror-satire gets stuck on its own horn.

Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star in a gory comedy about an attempt to exploit the healing power of unicorns—and the violent destruction it unleashes.

Director Alex Scharfman tells IndieWire about some of the (real) references for the horned monsters in his A24 film.

And luckily for the mythical beast, the driver of that moving vehicle is affable Paul Rudd pretending to be Elliott, the private lawyer to an egregiously wealthy family. Their mountain chalet set at the end of a treacherous uphill road is his destination when the accident occurs.