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

Writer and director Alex Sharfman’s splurchy dark comedy carves itself into halves, a clever first half followed by a more routine second one. Yet it’s a feature film debut signalling a filmmaker of actual wit.

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.