"Death of a Unicorn" director Alex Scharfman breaks down the historical inspirations and practical effects of his debut ...

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

For Scharfman, practical effects played a large part of his pitch for Death of a Unicorn; that way, it could remain in conversation craft-wise with his original creature-feature inspirations.

Cut a small wavy piece in the shape of a horn from the golden or yellow foam sheet, then paste it in the middle of both ears; pictures 7 and 8. To make the unicorn’s forehead hair, choose three ...

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 ...

Death of a Unicorn' is a gloriously bloody odyssey about love, family, and the powers that lurk inside unicorn blood.

But not before Ridley gets the chance to touch its psychedelia-inducing horn, and form psychically linked powers of her own to the mythical creature. The unicorn’s radiance has the power to heal ...

There are only so many ways a unicorn horn can impale a person, and in "Death of a Unicorn" we see pretty much all of them, each one to diminishing returns. Of the cast members, Poulter seems to ...