The Gruesome Animated Film Conclusion That Stays With Audiences
Among all the mature cartoon movies I’ve personally viewed, nothing has remained with me quite like the fear-filled ending of a explicitly bloody and overwhelingly transgressive film from 2022 The Unicorn Wars.
Back in the year 2015, this Spanish filmmaker crafted a dark, somber and frequently brutal world with a few small , forlorn hints of hope.
While The Unicorn Wars appears as it stemmed from a desire to advance animation further, the filmmaker clarified that it was rather an effort to express a universal, cross-cultural message about “the mutual source of all wars.”
That message is expressed through a band of brightly hued teddy bears , openly based on a famous line of cuddly characters.
Being raised in a society centered on militarism and the military-industrial complex, a lot of the bears are obsessed with slaughtering unicorns, because of a sacred text that tells them they used to be kings of the woods, until the unicorns drove them out.
Others have not completely accepted the brainwashing, , choose to sample substances and fornicate outdoors.
Unlike their gentle equivalents, these bright beings show sexual organs and definite sex drives.
For a certain particularly cruel, cynical bear, Bluey, the battle with the unicorns turns into a route toward dominance — and particularly to supremacy over his softer, more compassionate sibling the character Tubby.
Bluey acts as a tormentor , a seeming psychopath , and when horror dominates his squad and kills his teammates sequentially, he takes more and more influence personally, through ever more violent, destructive ways.
Simultaneously, these mythical beings are experiencing their own terror, in the form of a spreading, destructive monster in their woods.
“At the beginning, it appears as a comedy,” the director commented. “However it turns into a more serious and sad movie. And by the end, it becomes a horror film.”
The Unicorn Wars begins feeling a bit like one of the most whimsical films from a legendary animator, which find a mischievous joy in allowing drawn beings swear, fire weapons, or have intimate relations.
Subsequently it becomes something more like a more grim film by that same creator, including ever more graphic violence and a tangible relation to the actual tragedy of war.
Ultimately, it becomes a complete Grand Guignol massacre.
The terror which makes this a Halloween-friendly watch starts well before than one might expect.
Unicorn Wars is one for the most dedicated gorehounds, for enthusiasts of intense movies who wish to view a movie they have not viewed until now, and are able to withstand a plot which delivers no restraint.
View it in a dimly lit space without any distractions, and the conclusion will dig under your skin and stay with you.
Where to watch: Accessible via rental or purchase on multiple streaming sites.
