Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) and his teenage daughter, Ridley (Jenna Ortega), are driving through Canada toward his boss, Odell Leopold’s (Richard E. Grant) house when they hit a unicorn.

That’s the start of this film, which also finds Ridley having cosmic visions through the fairy tale creature’s horn before her dad bludgeons it to death. The blood removes her acne and improves her father’s allergies. The Leopolds — mother Belinda (Téa Leoni) and son Shepherd (Will Pouter) — experiment with the body they find in Elliot’s car and cure Odell’s cancer.

Meanwhile, the unicorn’s parents come for it, killing everyone in their path.

I liked how the unicorns are basically velociraptors. This wears its influences proudly and isn’t afraid to be a dumb monster movie, and I say that with peace and love. This has a lot of Aliens in it, too, which is unexpected. I mean, the family has alien eggs in the kitchen! This is weird in the best of places, and I applaud that.

The special edition Blu-Ray release of Death of a Unicorn has a commentary track with director and writer Alex Scharfman, deleted scenes, a “How to Kill a Unicorn” featurette and six collectible postcards. You can order it from Deep Discount.