The Gory Animated Movie Ending That Haunts Viewers
Out of all the mature cartoon movies I have ever watched, no other has remained with me quite like the fear-filled conclusion of a explicitly bloody and overwhelingly transgressive 2022 movie The Unicorn Wars.
Back in the year 2015, the Spain-based writer-director developed a grim, somber and often savage universe with several minor , desolate twinges of hope.
Although The Unicorn Wars appears as it came from an impulse to advance the medium further, the director clarified that it was rather an attempt to express a widespread, multicultural theme concerning “the mutual source of every conflict.”
This theme is expressed by means of a band of colorful pastel bears , openly inspired by a well-known series of cuddly characters.
Being raised in a culture focused on warmongering and the war machine, many of these creatures are obsessed with killing the mythical beasts, because of a religious scripture that claims them they were once rulers of the woodland, before these creatures expelled them.
Others have not completely accepted the propaganda, and would rather sample narcotics or fornicate in the woods.
In contrast to their friendly counterparts, these vivid animals display genitals , obvious sex drives.
For a certain notably brutal, skeptical animal, the bear named Bluey, the battle against unicorns turns into a route toward dominance — and especially to authority over his softer, kinder brother the character Tubby.
Bluey acts as a tormentor , a seeming sociopath , and when fear overcomes his group and claims his comrades individually, he grabs progressively power personally, in increasingly gory, harmful methods.
At the same time, the horned creatures are experiencing their own horror, in the form of an expanding, harmful creature in their forest.
“At the beginning, it seems like a lighthearted film,” the director said. “However it becomes a more serious and sorrowful movie. And by the end, it transforms into a horror film.”
Unicorn Wars begins similar to one of the more whimsical films by an iconic animator, which find a wicked pleasure in letting animated figures curse, fire weapons, or engage sexually.
Afterward it turns into something more like a bleaker film from that creator, including ever more graphic violence and a tangible relation to the actual tragedy of war.
Ultimately, it’s a full-on extreme drama carnage.
The terror which makes this a perfect Halloween watch kicks in well before than that description suggests.
Unicorn Wars is suited for the hardcore lovers of violence, for enthusiasts of graphic films who wish to watch a film they’ve never watched previously, and can endure a story which delivers absolutely no punches.
Watch it in a dark room with no disturbances, and that ending will crawl under your skin and take up residence there.
Availability: Offered for streaming or buying on various streaming sites.
