In 'Death of a Unicorn,' debuting director Alex Scharfman offers an amusingly dark take on one of the most beloved (and least seen) fantasy creatures.

Death of a Unicorn' is a gloriously bloody odyssey about love, family, and the powers that lurk inside unicorn blood.

Repeated across the centuries in art and lore, this painful sacrifice inevitably reveals something essential about human nature. That was true of both “The Last Unicorn” and Ridley Scott’s ...