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Geek Vibes Nation
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Vibes Nation
A24 To Release The Paul Rudd & Jenna Ortega Horror Comedy 'Death Of A Unicorn' On Blu-Ray This July
A24 has just announced that they will be releasing director Alex Scharfman's riotous action-horror Death of a Unicorn in a special Blu-Ray Collector's Edition that is expected to ship in July 2025, exclusively from the A24 Shop. The monster mash stars Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, and Richard E. Grant. The release will come with a Dolby Atmos track and new special features including a commentary track, featurettes, and more. Get more details below! Synopsis: A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties. Special features: Commentary with Writer-Director Alex Scharfman 'How to Kill a Unicorn' Featurette Deleted Scenes Six Collectible Postcards This is the latest of many Collector's Editions from A24. Which of their films would you like to see get this treatment next? Let us know in the comments or over on Twitter.
Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Matt Zukowski shuts down rumours he has split from wife Tammy Hembrow as couple enjoy date night
Matt Zukowski has shut down rumours he has split from his wife Tammy Hembrow by sharing footage of them together on a recent date night. The Love Island Australia star, 29, appeared in a social media clip alongside Tammy, 31, in which he told fans they had just finished watching a movie at the cinema. 'We just watched a new horror, Until Dawn. It was pretty gory, there were a lot of jump scares and we were screaming heaps,' Matt told fans. 'I couldn't watch a lot of things, it was real gross,' Tammy added. The pair then embraced in the cinema foyer as Tammy revealed Matt got so scared during the movie that he held onto her. 'He was clutching my hand!' Tammy said. It comes after Matt fuelled speculation that his whirlwind romance with Tammy may be over, after posting footage of himself going to the movies solo on Tuesday. He took to Instagram to share a video revealing he was watching Death Of A Unicorn alone - a move that came just days after fans noticed he was absent from Tammy's lavish 31st birthday celebrations. Matt made it clear he was watching the movie alone, appearing in a white hoodie and backwards cap as he addressed his followers while seated in a plush theatre chair. Sources close to the couple told Daily Mail Australia that the pair have quietly split, with Matt recently relocating back to Melbourne, but neither Tammy or Matt have publicly confirmed their parting. 'Matt and Tammy are on a break. They're not saying it's over for good, but for now they're taking time apart,' the insider revealed. 'They're both really emotional people, and they've decided to put their marriage on pause for now.' The solo cinema outing marked Matt's first public appearance since he broke his silence on ongoing divorce rumours surrounding the couple, who tied the knot just five months ago in a glamorous Byron Bay wedding. In a candid Instagram Stories video posted earlier this week, Matt admitted to taking a step back from social media, blaming online negativity. The Love Island Australia star appeared in a social media clip alongside Tammy in which he told fans they had just finished watching a movie at the cinema. Tammy told fans Matt got so scared watching the horror movie that he held onto her It comes after Matt fuelled speculation that his whirlwind romance with Tammy may be over, after posting footage of himself going to the movies solo on Tuesday 'There's a lot of people out there who say negative stuff and they want to see people fail, they want to see things fail,' he said. 'It's depressing. So I took a break.' However, the reality star notably avoided addressing his relationship status with Tammy, who was seen living her best life during her birthday festivities on the Gold Coast. The fitness mogul shared several glamorous snaps from her big day, including photos of her decadent cake, extravagant floral arrangements and gifts - but her husband was nowhere to be seen. She also made a point to thank her girlfriends in a post captioned: 'Grateful for the girlies in my life making me feel so special today.' The snub did not go unnoticed by fans, with many flooding the comments section of her posts asking: 'Where's your husband?' and 'Divorced already?' Tammy and Matt began dating in mid-2023, after Matt slid into her DMs, and were engaged just three months later. They tied the knot in a lavish ceremony at Chateau Du Soleil in Byron Bay in November, surrounded by close friends and family. Tammy, who has unfollowed Matt multiple times in the past, also deleted several images of the pair together before re- following him again. The couple met after the former Love Island star slid into Tammy's DMs in 2023 and wed a year later in a stunning Byron Bay ceremony.
Euronews
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Death Of A Unicorn' - Impale the rich!
ADVERTISEMENT Considering the times we live in and how we're faced with constantly escalating global crises, the lunatic behaviour of multi-billionaires and the out-of-touch elites shining by their mediocrity on a daily basis, it's hardly surprising that the ability to tolerate the rich has become as rare as... well, finding a unicorn in the wild. This has been mirrored through the zeitgeist-flooding trend of Eat The Rich movies, with the likes of Parasite , Triangle of Sadness , Knives Out , The Menu and Saltburn - all delivering some cathartic goods. TV hasn't fared too badly either, with the ubiquity of shows like Succession and White Lotus also utilising satire to expose the downfall of morally loathsome one percenters. A24 clearly wanted in on the Rich People Are Shit action and tapped writer-director Alex Scharfman to deliver the goods. The trouble is that clued-up audience members now expect their late-stage capitalism satires to be scathing, original and potent... And sadly, Scharfman's feature debut can't even get the balance right between horror and comedy. Death Of A Unicorn A24 Death Of A Unicorn follows workaholic Elliot (Paul Rudd), a compliance lawyer for a pharmaceutical company run by dying CEO Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant). He's dragging his sullen daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) to his billionaire tycoon boss' luxurious estate, thinking he's about to be promoted to the executive board. On the drive to the secluded retreat, the father-daughter duo accidentally hit a unicorn with their rental car. The words 'Death Of A Unicorn' immediately appear on screen - a perfectly timed and goofy monster B-movie nod that promises much. With no place to dump the corpse, they bring their roadkill to the retreat - but not before Ridley manages to establish a psychic connection with the creature by touching its horn. Despite their best efforts to keep the creature under wraps, the unicorn is discovered by the Leopolds – Odell, his glamorous wife Belinda (Téa Leoni) and their dipshit-in-stripey-pleated-shorts heir Shepard (Will Poulter). And when they realize that the unicorn's blood may contain magical healing properties, the terminally ill patriarch and his Sackler-shaped family waste no time in poking and draining the poor beast for profit. A lucrative new drug is at stake and nothing will stop them from harnessing the creature's regenerative talents. Little do they know that unicorns may have magic blood, but they're not all rainbows and cuddles. They're ferocious legends, and if one goes down, you can bet its family will muster enough vengeful determination to make Michael Myers soil himself... Death Of A Unicorn A24 From the premise alone, there's plenty to love about Death Of A Unicorn . Caricatures of pharma arseholes getting bloodily impaled while a fractured father-daughter dynamic gets healed in the process. It sounds like something Roger Corman would have saluted. Frustratingly, Death Of A Unicorn settles for being very predictable and unsure of what it wants to be. It's not camp or irreverent enough to be hilarious; too thinly drawn to function as a proper takedown of the resource-hoarding ultra wealthy; and it lacks the appropriate amount of on-screen gore to make it a bloody B-movie blast. In its defense, some of the slasher kills are funny, and the Leopolds have a blast - especially Will Poulter who stands out as the feckless and entitled Shepard. His Ted Talk line delivery, as well as his plan to defeat the unicorns in the 'marketplace of ideas', do make up for some of the film's shortcomings. However, we've seen the ever-reliable Paul Rudd play this type of affable and bumbling character a million times, and Jenna Ortega is once again lumped in the archetypal Gen-Zer category, spouting suspiciously ChatGPT-sounding lines like 'Philanthropy is reputation-laundering for the oligarchy'. She clearly has more range and needs to be cast in roles that don't feel like retreads of her detached-youth turns in Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice . There are worst ways of spending 107 minutes than Death Of A Unicorn , especially when rich and exploitative narcissists get slashed, gutted and stabbed by crazed unicorns. It's certainly not the crushing bore that was Cocaine Bear . However, much like Elizabeth Banks' 2023 'Bear Trips Balls On Nose Candy' dud, A24 needed a surer grasp when it came to elevating the equally promising pitch of 'What If Unicorns Started Skewering The Rich?' to satirical heights. This just needed more bite. Sorry, more "girthsome" horn. Death Of A Unicorn is out now.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Death Of A Unicorn Review: I'm Here For The Gruesome Horror And Comedy, Not So Much For Jenna Ortega And Paul Rudd's Family Drama
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Genre storytelling often involves the reiteration of certain tropes and ideas, with new twists and contexts helping modern projects stand apart from their influences. It's a practice that 2024's dread-filled thriller Heretic hinged on, and writer-director Alex Scharfman's first feature, the fantastical horror-comedy Death of a Unicorn, sounds on paper like a dovetailed mix between I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Simpsons' 'Burger Kings.' Death Of A Unicorn Release Date: March 28, 2025Directed By: Alex ScharfmanWritten By: Alex ScharfmanStarring: Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, Will Poulter, Anthony CarriganRating: R for strong violent content, gore, language and some drug 104 minutes Thankfully, despite any arguable surface-level similarities shared, Death of a Unicorn is a madcap morality tale unto itself, mashing together two families with wildly differing ideologies on how to approach an accidental conundrum that could change the course of human history. It is perhaps unfortunate that one family — widower Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) and his thorny daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) — often feels ported from a more homogenized version of the script when sharing scenes with the magnificent Leopold clan. The hyper-wealthy and otherwise oblivious Leopolds comprise the divergence point where Death of a Unicorn goes from emotional daddy-daughter drama to unpitying satire, and it's during those most bonkers and bloody sequences where Scharfman's efforts are most rewarding. Which is why it's mostly unfortunate that Elliot and Ridley are the main characters we're supposed to be rooting for. Rudd's Elliot Kintner is an attorney who is very clearly more comfortable dealing with occupational hazards than having an authentic conversation with his daughter Ridley (Ortega), and it's clear that his wife's death has weakened his parenting skills even more. To be fair, Ridley has all the hallmarks of an overdramatic on-screen teen, and doesn't provide the easiest route to kinship for her middle-aged father. Road trips could and should be fun, but the pair are mostly at odds during their drive out to the lavish abode of Elliot's boss Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant), whose declining health requires a meeting of the minds to avoid a total crisis. And it's that meeting that Elliot is obsessing over when he unwittingly smashes his car into a living, breathing (for now) unicorn. Ridley discovers the magical creature's glowing horn has a distinct impact when touched, making her the most empathetic and sympathetic character throughout all the chaos to come. Without getting too deep into spoilers, the horn provides unexpected health benefits that the Leopold family is very keen to utilize and exploit, which is what drives a wedge between Elliot and Ridley. Despite some inherently funny and brutal moments caused by their imbalance, the duo's scenes are filled with avoidable sitcom-esque conflicts that could almost all be resolved with a single two-minute conversation. Rather than being a genuinely great father to his kid's face, Elliot thinks impressing his boss will lead to a more financially secure future, which would theoretically make him a great dad in the long run. If the entire movie was a two-hander just between Rudd and Ortega, their story might not feel as cliché. But once the Leopolds' outlandishness is on display in full, Elliot and Ridley's inherently more important relationship gets completely overshadowed –despite the script continuing its attempts to strike that emotional chord. Let's properly meet the Leopolds and their loyal staff, shall we? At the head is the bedridden Odell(Richard E. Grant) and his seemingly doting wife Belinda, with Téa Leoni bringing her signature edge to a character who seems like a doting wife and mother until she isn't. And Grant also plays into his performative strengths as Odell, who goes from sluggish and sickly to stoic and Shakespearean as he is introduced to the unicorn's medical benefits. But it's the couple's endlessly pampered and spoiled son Shepard who earns the lion's share of Death of a Unicorn's laughs, with Will Poulter dishing out a career-best performance. Despite not having any of his father's ailments, Shep ends up taking advantage of the unicorn horn's mystical powers himself, which magnifies his own inflated ego and sense of self-worth. From his questionable fashion choices to his echoing screams into the night from a hot tub, nearly every one of Poulter's on-screen moments is a comedic highlight. All that said, this film's comedy crown probably deserves to be shared with Barry and Gotham vet Anthony Carrigan, who makes a staff meal out of what might otherwise have been a forgettable character in a lesser actor's hands. He plays the Leopold's butler Griff, whose unyielding dedication to the family is clearly a detriment to his own mental health – which is stretched to a breaking point once dead unicorns and tales of mythological vengeance enter the picture. For every crass and loud declaration uttered by Poulter's Shep, Carrigan's Griff sells a moment with just his longing and/or defeated eyes, and it's a testament to his skills that he earns as many big laughs as others do without an abundance of dialogue. Death of a Unicorn might not have been more than a short film if its antagonistic family was able to manipulate the unicorn horn's benefits without any opposing forces, and I applaud Alex Scharfman for drawing upon "real-world" mythologies to give the titular creatures their own arc within the movie. Ridley schools herself in such lore, and makes efforts to get everyone on her side, but to no avail. But for all that I'm into with the introduction of such lore, the historical context presented is somewhat simplistic, and doesn't give Ridley much to work with when half-assedly trying to make others aware. I likely wouldn't have believed her either, and I know she's telling a movie-truth. The same mix of appreciation and disappointment can be applied to the film's CGI unicorns. By and large, the close-ups of the creatures are awesome, especially as the movie's horror vibes are working overtime and their sharp teeth are on display. But the digital wizardry falls flatter in wider shots, where the hulking beasts gallop around with movements that are clearly non-organic and feel weightless within the settings. Despite any lows tied to narrative explanations and visual effects, however, Death of a Unicorn is indeed wildly successful when viewed specifically for its horror-comedy elements. The laughs are sharp and plentiful, and the gore is gross and masterful, often coinciding during the same scenes. Alex Scharfman has proven himself worthy of directing more quotable, splatter-tastic features in the future, and one can only hope that he gets to work with a similarly fantastic cast the next time around. But even if not everyone can make it, Will Poulter and Anthony Carrigan should be prioritized.
