The Gruesome Cartoon Film Ending That Haunts Audiences
Out of all the adult-oriented cartoon movies I’ve ever watched, nothing has stuck with me as much as the terror-laced ending of the explicitly bloody and highly provocative film from 2022 Unicorn Wars.
Back in the year 2015, this Spain-based writer-director developed a grim, melancholy , often savage universe with a few small , desolate twinges of optimism.
While The Unicorn Wars feels like it originated from an impulse to push the medium even more, the filmmaker clarified that it was rather an effort to communicate a widespread, multicultural theme regarding “the mutual source of each battle.”
That idea is communicated via a squad of colorful pastel bears , obviously based on a well-known line of cuddly figures.
Maturing in a society built around warmongering and the war machine, numerous these animals are obsessed with slaughtering unicorns, because of a sacred text that claims the bears they used to be masters of the woods, before the horned beings drove them out.
Some did not entirely bought into the propaganda, , would rather experiment with narcotics or fornicate in the woods.
Unlike their gentle equivalents, these bright beings have visible sexual organs , obvious urges.
For a certain especially vicious, cynical bear, the bear named Bluey, the war against the unicorns becomes a road to control — and especially to supremacy above his softer, kinder brother the character Tubby.
This bear acts as a tormentor and an apparent sociopath , and as fear dominates his squad and claims his fellow soldiers individually, he seizes progressively influence for himself, via progressively gory, damaging approaches.
Meanwhile, the horned creatures are suffering their own nightmare, through a growing, deadly beast in their forest.
“At the beginning, it seems like a comedy,” the filmmaker stated. “However it evolves into a more dramatic and sorrowful film. And by the end, it becomes a scary feature.”
Unicorn Wars starts out similar to one of the most playful films from a renowned animator, that uncover a wicked pleasure in letting cartoon characters curse, engage in violence, or sex each other up.
Subsequently it turns into something more like a more grim movie from that creator, including ever more visual gore , a palpable relation to the actual tragedy of conflict.
By the end, it becomes a complete extreme drama carnage.
The terror that makes the film an ideal spooky-season viewing begins much sooner than that description suggests.
Unicorn Wars is one for the devoted lovers of violence, for enthusiasts of graphic films who desire to view a film they haven’t ever seen on-screen before, and can endure a plot which delivers absolutely no punches.
See it with the lights off with no disturbances, and that ending will burrow into your mind and take up residence there.
How to view: Available for rental or purchase on several online services.
