The Gruesome Animated Movie Conclusion That Stays With Fans
Among every adult-oriented cartoon movies I have ever viewed, nothing has lingered in my mind quite like the dread-soaked ending of a explicitly bloody and overwhelingly transgressive film from 2022 The Unicorn Wars.
In the year 2015, this Spain-based writer-director created a grim, melancholy and often savage world with a few small , forlorn twinges of hope.
Although Unicorn Wars appears as it originated from a desire to push animation even more, the director clarified that it was more a try to communicate a universal, cross-cultural message concerning “the mutual source of each battle.”
That idea is communicated via a band of vividly colored bears , openly based on a famous series of lovable characters.
Maturing in a culture centered on warmongering as well as the defense industry, many of the bears are obsessed with slaughtering unicorns, thanks to a sacred text that claims them they used to be rulers of the forest, before the unicorns forced them out.
Others have not completely bought into the brainwashing, and choose to sample drugs or mate in the forest.
Unlike their cuddly equivalents, these colorful critters show genitals , clear urges.
For a certain particularly cruel, skeptical animal, the bear named Bluey, the battle with unicorns turns into a route to control — and particularly to supremacy above his softer, nicer brother the bear Tubby.
Bluey acts as a tormentor and an apparent psychopath , and when fear takes over his unit and takes his fellow soldiers sequentially, he takes progressively control for himself, through ever more gory, damaging approaches.
At the same time, the unicorns are enduring their own nightmare, in the form of a spreading, deadly beast in their forest.
“At the beginning, it seems like a lighthearted film,” the director commented. “Yet it evolves into a more serious and sorrowful film. And in the finale, it becomes a terrifying movie.”
Unicorn Wars commences similar to one of the more quirky films from a legendary animator, that discover a wicked pleasure in letting animated figures curse, shoot each other, or have intimate relations.
Then it becomes closer to a bleaker movie from the same creator, featuring progressively visual gore and a noticeable link to the actual horror of conflict.
In the finale, it becomes an outright theatrical horror bloodbath.
The terror that turns the film a Halloween-friendly viewing begins much sooner than that description suggests.
Unicorn Wars is one for the most dedicated gorehounds, for fans of intense movies who desire to see a film they have not viewed until now, and are able to withstand a narrative that pulls unflinching brutality.
Watch it in a dimly lit space with no disturbances, and the conclusion will crawl deep within you and linger.
Where to watch: Available for rental or purchase on multiple digital platforms.
