Jenna Ortega, the murderous unicor

Eviscerated bodies. Purple blood. And murderous unicorns. That is the recipe he made “Death of a unicorn“One of the surprise discoveries in the SXSW Film and television festival, where a strident reception was released on Saturday.

The film follows his father and daughter Elliot and Ridley Kintner (Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega), who visit Elliot’s billionaire chief, Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant) in his luxurious mansion in the Canadian desert. To their total surprise and disbelief, they accidentally hit a young unicorn while they headed. Because they are in the middle of a reserve of nature, they pack the body in their rent and bring it with them, waiting, in vain, to keep Odell, his soft wife Belinda (Tea Leoni) and his son of Layabout, Diletant Shepard (Will Poulter).

Once the Leopolds find out that the unicorn blood cured the acne of Ridley and the Elliot allergies, the body of the animal for their properties of miraculous cure begins to rapidly harvest, happily ignoring Ridley’s warnings about how the unicorns, according to the medieval tradition, are actually monsters vicious.

It is at this point that Unicorn’s parents appear and they begin to live the scientists and security personnel of the Leopold in search of their children’s body. The writer and director Alex Scharfman, making an auspicious managerial debut, caused the audience to roll in cycles of tensions, terrified shouts and triumphant cheers such as (Spoiler alert for what happens in these films) Leopolds are sent extravagantly.

“It was a lot of fun, and you encouraged, that was really special,” Leoni told the SXSW audience in the questions and answers after the premiere. Then he shouted at the movie’s support team: “When I was dying, I was heated to me for me. Isn’t that the sweetest?

The frayed relationship of Elliot and Ridley is the emotional center of the film, so it was surprising when Ortega said that “we began to film the film one or two days after we met.”

“Fortunately we had the experience,” Rudd added. “Jenna is a daughter in real life, and I’m really a father.”

The audience reserved its strongest and longer applause for Anthony Carrigan, who almost steals the film with his performance greatly without words such as the suffering carner of Leopold, Griff.

“The lines are great,” Carrigan said. “But the moments of responding to all these incredible actors and what they were doing, just I had a ball. Sometimes you don’t need to say anything. “

Grant then continued with this did not know: “Because I am the oldest person in this room, and there was no moral police in Hungary, the fact that we had group sex daily …” The rest of the cast began to laugh, and then Grant hugged herself from behind and began to supply her, apparently like a joke. Leoni quickly got rid of Grant as he smiled, and Ortega bent down on the floor.

When the moderator asked why, she turned the conversation back to Carrigan, saying that she and Rudd “did not realize up to two thirds in the film that had a Scottish accent” like Griff.

“Death of a unicorn” opens in theaters on March 28.