The Grisly Cartoon Movie Ending That Haunts Audiences
Among all the adult-oriented cartoon movies I’ve personally watched, nothing has remained with me quite like the terror-laced finale of a viscerally violent as well as overwhelingly transgressive 2022 movie The Unicorn Wars.
In the year 2015, the Spain-based writer-director developed a grim, bleak and often savage world that included a few small , forlorn twinges of hope.
Although The Unicorn Wars feels like it stemmed from a desire to push the medium further, the director clarified that it was actually an effort to express a universal, multicultural theme regarding “the mutual source of every conflict.”
That idea is communicated by means of a group of brightly hued teddy bears , clearly modeled after a famous line of lovable figures.
Growing up in a community focused on warmongering as well as the war machine, many of these creatures are consumed by exterminating unicorns, thanks to a holy book that tells the bears they used to be rulers of the forest, before the horned beings forced them out.
Some haven’t fully fallen for the indoctrination, , prefer to experiment with drugs or engage sexually in the forest.
In contrast to their friendly equivalents, these vivid animals display sexual organs and definite urges.
For a certain particularly cruel, cynical bear, the character Bluey, the conflict against the unicorns transforms into a path toward dominance — and particularly to authority over his gentler, more compassionate sibling the character Tubby.
Bluey acts as a tormentor and an apparent antisocial figure , and as terror dominates his group and kills his comrades sequentially, he seizes increasingly influence on his own behalf, through ever more bloody, destructive ways.
At the same time, these mythical beings are enduring their own horror, as an expanding, deadly beast in their habitat.
“Initially, it feels like a lighthearted film,” the filmmaker stated. “However it becomes a more dramatic and sorrowful film. And ultimately, it’s a terrifying movie.”
The Unicorn Wars commences similar to one of the more whimsical features by a legendary filmmaker, that discover a mischievous joy in letting animated figures curse, engage in violence, or engage sexually.
Then it turns into something more like a bleaker film from that creator, featuring progressively explicit brutality and a noticeable link to the real tragedy of battle.
In the finale, it becomes an outright Grand Guignol carnage.
The fear which makes this a perfect Halloween movie starts well before than that description suggests.
Unicorn Wars is suited for the hardcore fans of gore, for enthusiasts of intense movies who want to watch a movie they’ve never watched previously, and are able to withstand a plot that offers unflinching brutality.
View it with the lights off free from interruptions, and the finale will crawl into your mind and stay with you.
Where to watch: Offered for rental or purchase on multiple digital platforms.
