Death of a Unicorn finally gets a streaming release date: Here's how to watch the Jenna Ortega film online

Alex Scharfman's directorial debut, Death of a Unicorn, is set for a July 25 streaming drop on HBO Max. The film was released theatrically by A24 on March 28, 2025, and received mixed reviews from the critics, garnering a 54% critics approval on Rotten Tomatoes. However, audiences did like it, as the Popcornmeter score (77%) suggests.

The film stars Wednesday's Jenna Ortega as Ridley Kintner and Ant-Man's Paul Rudd as her father, Elliot Kintner. The cast also includes Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan, and Téa Leoni.

The film earned $16 million against a budget of $15 million. Of this, $12 million came from the domestic box office. Death of a Unicorn collected $2.2 million on day one, according to Box Office Mojo, and was the fifth-highest-grossing movie that day, competing with A Working Man, Snow White, and The Woman in the Yard, among other releases.

** The article below contains spoilers about the film being discussed. **

How to watch Death of a Unicorn on HBO Max?

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To watch Death of a Unicorn, you will need a subscription, which comes in different tiers. There's the Basic with Ads plan, the Standard Ad-Free plan, and the Premium Ad-Free plan.

The Basic with Ads plan will allow you to watch movies and TV shows alongside ads, but a couple of users can concurrently use it together. In addition, they can avail a 1080p resolution to watch content with this tier. While you can watch content here, you cannot download anything.

On the other hand, the other two plans come with 4K resolution and allow four concurrent users to watch content. Plus, you can also download content to a certain limit. The Standard plan allows 30 downloads while with the Ultimate package you can avail 100 downloads.

What is Death of a Unicorn about?

Death of a Unicorn will soon be available digitally. (Image via A24)

The film follows a father-daughter duo who are on a vacation. Paul Rudd's Elliot is at his boss's estate and is trying to impress him for work-related favors. However, things start to get interesting when Elliot hits a baby unicorn with his car and eventually kills it.

The film then reveals a side of Unicorns you may never have imagined. Traditionally, these mythical creatures are known to be angelic, but in the film, following the road accident, the unicorns become a definition of horror. They want revenge for what the humans have done to their kin. Not just wounding it, but what the humans do to the baby unicorn later is shocking, too.

This vacation then slowly turns into a nightmare but, rest assured, Elliot and his daughter are saved. A reason the creatures don't kill Elliot is that he has a change of heart.

The message Death of a Unicorn wants to give is that materialism is killing life as we know it, and a large number of people with a capitalist mindset will stop at nothing until they gain something.