The Gory Animated Film Ending That Haunts Audiences
Among all the adult-oriented cartoon movies I have personally watched, nothing has remained with me as much as the dread-soaked ending of a explicitly bloody as well as overwhelingly transgressive film from 2022 The Unicorn Wars.
In the year 2015, the Spain-based filmmaker created a grim, melancholy and often savage universe that included some tiny , desolate twinges of hope.
While Unicorn Wars appears as it came from a desire to advance animation further, the filmmaker stated that it was actually an effort to express a universal, multicultural message concerning “the mutual source of all wars.”
That message is communicated by means of a group of vividly colored bears , obviously modeled after a famous series of lovable characters.
Growing up in a society built around militarism and the defense industry, numerous these creatures are fixated on exterminating the mythical beasts, thanks to a religious scripture that tells the bears they were once kings of the woods, until the unicorns forced them out.
Some did not entirely bought into the brainwashing, and prefer to try out substances or fornicate in the woods.
Unlike their cuddly counterparts, these colorful critters show sexual organs and obvious sex drives.
For a particular notably brutal, cynical bear, the bear named Bluey, the conflict with unicorns transforms into a route to control — and especially to dominance above his gentler, kinder brother the character Tubby.
This bear acts as a tormentor , an obvious sociopath , and while horror dominates his squad and kills his teammates sequentially, he takes increasingly control personally, through ever more gory, harmful methods.
At the same time, the unicorns are enduring their own nightmare, through a spreading, deadly beast in their forest.
“At the beginning, it seems like a lighthearted film,” the director commented. “However it evolves into a more intense and sorrowful movie. And by the end, it transforms into a terrifying movie.”
Unicorn Wars commences similar to among the playful films from an iconic animator, that uncover a wicked pleasure in allowing cartoon characters swear, shoot each other, or sex each other up.
Then it becomes more akin to a darker work from the same director, including ever more graphic violence , a palpable relation to the real horror of battle.
Ultimately, it’s an outright theatrical horror carnage.
The terror which makes the film an ideal spooky-season viewing begins a lot earlier than indicated.
The Unicorn Wars is suited for the most dedicated gorehounds, for enthusiasts of graphic films who want to watch a film they haven’t ever seen on-screen before, and who can handle a story that offers no restraint.
View it in a dark room without any distractions, and that ending will burrow under your skin and stay with you.
Where to watch: Accessible via rental or purchase on multiple streaming sites.