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At the heart of every monster movie is a menacing, often oversized creature, a werewolf, gorilla, dinosaur, shark, half fish man, and then there's death of a unicorn, which offers up a different kind of cinematic adversary.

The film finds Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega facing off against some angry as hell horned beasts,

and like so many creature features,

it poses a direct question amid all the chaos and carnage.

Who's the real monster here?

I'm Glenn Weldon.

And I'm Aisha Harris,

and today we're talking about death of a unicorn

on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

Joining us today is Jordan Cruciola. She's a writer and producer and the host of the podcast

Feeling Seen on Maximum Fun. Welcome back, Jordan. Thank you so much for having me. Thrill to be back

as always. Awesome to have you here. And also, like, I don't think we could have thought of anyone better to be on this show to talk about this. All right. It's going to be a fun

conversation. So Death of a Unicorn stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as a dad and daughter,

Elliot and Ridley. And along the way to a business retreat, their car strikes a mysterious creature.

No, but it is horse-shaped with some sort of protrusion or growth.

Right, that's my working theory, too.

Feral horse.

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