Killer Unicorn

Synopsis:

Danny is your average Brooklyn party boy. This year, he and his friends couldn’t be more excited about the upcoming “Brooklyn Annual Enema Party;” one of Brooklyn’s biggest parties, the event is a place “where you come to get douched and dance.” While the night starts out fun, it quickly takes a turn for the worse when Danny is attacked by a stranger. In the end, his fabulous drag queen and queer friends are able to save his life, but not without deadly consequences. A year later, Danny is still going throughout the aftermath of that horrible incident and refuses to go to this year’s upcoming “Brooklyn Annual Enema Party,” despite the pressure of his close friends Cholata, Collin and Gayson. His friends want Danny to face his fears and go back out into the world. Danny refuses, but when a new boy, PuppyPup, enters his life, Danny decides to give his social life and the Brooklyn nightlife scene a second chance. It isn’t until his friends start to disappear and get killed in gruesome ways that Danny realizes that his life, and everyone else who helped him that night, are in danger. A man wearing a unicorn mask is killing off Brooklyn nightlife, one queen at a time, and he won’t stop until he has his revenge.

Quick Thoughts:

“Killer Unicorn” was a queer horror film recommended for me to review. And while I can see how it has the potential for a good queer slasher film, it has some major issues. Personally, I was ready to kill off most of the queens myself – they were annoying, not campy. In general, I think the film should’ve leaned more into the camp and low-budget horror because what we felt like a cheap imitation. But the worst offense was a storyline that was out-of-order. The synopsis starts off with an unsuccessful attack on Danny, and then skips ahead to the following year. But in the actual film, we don’t get the backstory of the initial attack until halfway through. It doesn’t make sense. Not to mention a few plot holes. Danny, PuppyPup, and MDME Mortimer are some of the better actors, and there are some neat kills. But those aren’t enough to salvage this into an enjoyable queer horror film. Especially when there are other queer horror films that pull it off better.