Before you take your unicorn-loving child to go see the new Jenna Ortega movie, Death of a Unicorn—which opens in theaters this weekend—you should know that this is a horror movie produced by Midsommar director Ari Aster. I’m not saying your child won’t still love the movie, but it’s just something to keep in mind.
This new satirical horror-comedy from A24 tells the story of a father (Paul Rudd) and his teenage daughter (Ortega) who accidentally hit and kill a unicorn with their car. As it turns out, this is a big no-no in the unicorn community. Now father and daughter are being hunted down by terrifying, magical beasts, and they don’t even get to go to candy mountain. Ugh!
Written and directed by Alex Scharfman in his feature film debut, and also starring Will Poulter, Tea Leoni, and Richard E. Grant, Death of Unicorn first premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest film festival earlier this month. Reviews were mixed, but you probably want to check the movie out for yourself. Read on to find out where to watch Death of a Unicorn and when we expect to see the Death of Unicorn movie streaming on Max.
Death of a Unicorn will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. in theaters on Friday, March 28. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. The Death of a Unicorn movie is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.
Death of a Unicorn is not streaming on Netflix and likely will not be on Netflix in the U.S. any time soon, due to the fact that the film is an A24 release, and the 2023 deal between A24 and Warner Bros. Discovery, brings all A24’s previous and upcoming theatrical releases to the Warner Bros. streaming service Max. (Formerly known as HBO Max.) If you want to watch the Death of a Unicorn movie at home, you’ll have to wait for the film to be available to buy or rent on digital platforms, or wait for it to stream on Max.
Death of a Unicorn is not yet streaming on Max. Right now, the movie is only in theaters. That said, we do expect to see Death of a Unicorn streaming on Max eventually—thanks to the A24 and Warner Bros. deal—but we’re not sure when.
The A24 deal is a “Pay-1 deal,” which means A24 movies will start streaming on Max in the “Pay 1 window,” meaning that Max will be the first “TV channel” to pay for the rights to Death of a Unicorn, after the film has been released on digital and home media. One recent A24 title, Heretic, began streaming on Max on March 7, about four months after its release in theaters, and about three months after its release on digital.
If Death of a Unicorn follows a similar release strategy, you might see Death of a Unicorn on digital in about a month, around late April 2025, and streaming on Max in about four months, around late July 2025.
This is all speculation. The A24 digital and streaming releases have varied by title. If you want to watch Death of a Unicorn right away, you can catch the movie in select U.S. theaters.