Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega in ‘Death of a Unicorn’ (Photo Credit: Balazs Goldi / A24)

Alex Scharfman has been working in the indie movie scene for a good 15 years as everything from a location manager to a production executive. Now, he’s been given the reins as writer and director of the newest A24 horror/comedy, Death of a Unicorn.

Death of a Unicorn is about a lawyer named Elliot Kintner who, along with his teenaged daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), is travelling to the secluded home of a wealthy pharmaceutical baron named Odell Leopold (Saltburn’s Richard E. Grant) to hopefully join the corporation. On their way through the wilderness, Elliot and Ridley hit a unicorn with their car and kill it. Both confused and mortified, they take the body to the house with them, and once they are there, it’s discovered that the unicorn has magical powers.