Alex Scharfman sent a letter to Ortega just before her career hit overdrive with 'Wednesday': "I don't know what we would've done if we didn't get Jenna."

People are like, ‘I didn’t know unicorns had to do with class commentary or socialist commentary,’ and like, well, hell yeah, they do. They always did.“

Written and helmed by Alex Scharfman, Death of a Unicorn made its theatrical release on 28th March, 2025, after showcasing at the SXSW. The movie scores a B- on CinemaScore in its debut.

Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd’s horror comedy “Death of a Unicorn” is new in theaters this weekend. How are critics reacting to it?

St. Vincent released "DOA," a new song from the soundtrack of the film "Death of a Unicorn," starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd.

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.

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

Led by a cast that includes Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Richard E. Grant and Will Poulter, this so-so horror-comedy is marred by tonal swings and subpar execution.

A fantasy horror comedy that is also an Eat the Rich parable and also a functioning homage to scare classics like "Jurassic Park" and "Alien," "Death of a Unicorn" puts forth a lot of ideas, but makes good on very few of them.