Death of a Unicorn 🎥 2025 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Lawyer Elliot Kintner and his teenage daughter, Ridley, are traveling in the Canadian Rockies for a weekend at the estate of Elliot’s boss, Odell Leopold, and his family his wife, Belinda, and their grown son, Shepard. On the way, Elliot accidentally strikes and injures a small unicorn with his car. When Ridley touches its horn, she experiences strange, cosmic visions, which Elliot abruptly stops by bludgeoning the creature with a tire iron, splashing blood on them both. The Kintners arrive at the Leopolds’ estate with the unicorn’s body hidden in their car. Shortly after, Ridley discovers that the unicorn’s blood has cleaned away the acne on her face; Elliot’s vision has also improved, and his allergies are gone.

The Leopolds eventually discover the unicorn still alive in the car, and their assistant, Shaw, shoots it. Upon learning the unicorn has magical healing properties, Odell suggests they experiment with it. A group of scientists working for the Leopolds, led by Dr. Song, creates a concoction by grating off some of the unicorn’s horn and injecting it intravenously into Odell, which cures his cancer. Odell orders the unicorn taken to their laboratory for further testing, planning to monetize its healing properties.

Having read the story behind The Unicorn Tapestries, including a conjectured restoration of details missing from “The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden” tapestry, Ridley argues that the Leopolds should not be misusing the body of the unicorn, but they dismiss her concerns. As the unicorn is being transported to a laboratory, a much larger adult unicorn brutally kills Song and several security personnel, but suddenly becomes passive when it meets Ridley. Shaw grazes it with a shotgun, causing it to flee and disappear into the woods. Odell organizes a hunting party and insists that Elliot join them. Shepard steals a vial of the unicorn’s grated horn.

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