The Grisly Animated Movie Conclusion That Stays With Audiences
Out of every adult-oriented cartoon movies I’ve personally watched, no other has remained with me quite like the fear-filled finale of the viscerally violent and deeply subversive 2022 movie The Unicorn Wars.
In the year 2015, this Spanish filmmaker created a grim, bleak and frequently brutal universe with a few small , forlorn twinges of optimism.
Although The Unicorn Wars appears as it stemmed from a drive to push the medium even more, the director stated that it was rather an attempt to communicate a global, multicultural message regarding “the mutual source of each battle.”
That message is expressed via a group of colorful pastel bears , openly modeled after a well-known line of cuddly figures.
Growing up in a society built around warmongering and the military-industrial complex, many of these animals are obsessed with killing unicorns, thanks to a religious scripture that claims them they previously were masters of the woods, until the horned beings forced them out.
A few haven’t fully accepted the brainwashing, , prefer to experiment with substances or fornicate in the woods.
Unlike their gentle counterparts, these bright beings display genitals and definite urges.
For a certain notably brutal, skeptical animal, Bluey, the war with the unicorns becomes a route to control — and specifically to authority over his softer, nicer brother Tubby.
Bluey behaves aggressively and a seeming antisocial figure , and as fear overcomes his squad and takes his comrades sequentially, he seizes progressively power for himself, in increasingly gory, harmful methods.
Meanwhile, the horned creatures are enduring their own terror, in the form of a growing, destructive monster in their habitat.
“At the beginning, it feels like a lighthearted film,” the filmmaker said. “However it becomes a more intense and sorrowful movie. And in the finale, it’s a horror film.”
Unicorn Wars commences similar to one of the more playful films from a renowned filmmaker, which find a mischievous joy in permitting drawn beings curse, shoot each other, or engage sexually.
Afterward it turns into closer to a bleaker film from the same director, with increasingly graphic violence and a tangible relation to genuine tragedy of war.
By the end, it becomes a full-on Grand Guignol bloodbath.
The fear that makes this a Halloween-friendly movie starts much sooner than that description suggests.
Unicorn Wars is suited for the most dedicated gorehounds, for fans of intense movies who wish to watch a movie they’ve never seen on-screen before, and can endure a narrative that offers unflinching brutality.
View it in a dark room without any distractions, and that ending will crawl into your mind and linger.
How to view: Available for rental or purchase on several streaming sites.
