Movies like Death of a Unicorn

“Death of a Unicorn (2025) is a 2020s American folk-horror with persistent magical-realism inflections that frames myth as commodity. The film stages its core conflict—an accidental killing and subsequent corporate appetite for a miraculous cure—through anamorphic framing, low-key motivated lighting, and rack-focus blocking that literalize moral distance. Its value lies in how technical clarity forces ethical attention: cinematography makes culpability and commodification legible without recourse to melodrama.”