Death of a Unicorn (2025)
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Synopsis
During their journey to a weekend getaway, a father and his daughter accidentally strike and kill a unicorn. Upon reaching their destination, the father's ultra-wealthy employer attempts to harness the beast's extraordinary restorative powers.
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Woke Score Breakdown
🎭 Race-swapped character
1All characters in this original screenplay are newly created; no established characters are race-swapped.
🔃 Gender-swapped character
1No established characters are recast as the opposite sex.
👥 Diverse casting
1The cast features a standard contemporary ensemble (including Jenna Ortega, Sunita Mani, and Steve Park) that fits its modern corporate and medical setting without being foregrounded as a demographic statement.
✊ Racial messaging
1The film does not address systemic racism, white culpability, or racial grievances.
🛂 Immigrant themes
1There are no themes related to immigration or the immigrant experience.
🪶 Indigenous peoples
1The narrative does not explore indigenous or colonization issues.
🏳️🌈 LGBT characters
1The film does not feature any prominent LGBT characters or storylines.
♀️ Feminist themes
1While Ridley is a capable female lead and serves as the film's moral core, her arc does not critique traditional gender roles or frame masculinity as an obstacle.
🏢 Anti-capitalist themes
3The film centers on a dark satire of corporate and pharmaceutical greed, focusing on the wealthy Leopold family—analogous to the Sacklers—who seek to commodify and profit from a dead unicorn's regenerative blood, highlighting the corruptive influence of the profit motive.
🌱 Environmental issues
2The narrative touches on ecological exploitation, where the Leopolds' attempt to commercialize a magical creature of the wild provokes violent retribution from its parent unicorns, acting as an allegory for nature fighting back against human overreach.
Content Rating Breakdown
💋 Sex & Nudity
MildThe film contains no sex scenes or sexual content. Nudity is restricted to a brief, completely non-sexual scene of a man sitting shirtless in a hot tub.
🩸 Violence & Gore
SevereThe film features highly graphic and bloody violence. A unicorn is repeatedly clubbed in the head with a tire iron, and vengeful unicorns later embark on a gory rampage, brutally ripping humans apart and leaving behind severed limbs, exposed organs, and splatters of purple blood.
🤬 Profanity
ModerateThe dialogue features moderate profanity throughout, including approximately 14 uses of the 'f-word' alongside other vulgarities.
🍺 Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
SevereSubstance abuse is a central plot point and is depicted in detail. Characters are shown grinding down a unicorn's horn to use as a drug, with scenes depicting characters snorting, smoking, and injecting the powder. Characters also drink alcohol and vape.
👻 Frightening & Intense Scenes
SevereThe second half of the film functions as a creature-feature slasher, featuring highly intense and frightening sequences of characters being hunted, trapped, and attacked by vengeful animals inside a secluded compound.