The Grisly Cartoon Film Ending That Haunts Fans
Among all the mature cartoon movies I’ve personally watched, no other has remained with me as much as the terror-laced conclusion of a graphically gory and deeply subversive film from 2022 Unicorn Wars.
Back in the year 2015, the Spanish writer-director developed a dark, bleak and often savage universe that included some tiny , forlorn glimmers of hope.
Although The Unicorn Wars seems like it originated from a drive to push the medium further, the filmmaker explained that it was more a try to express a universal, cross-cultural message about “the shared root of each battle.”
That message is conveyed through a band of colorful pastel bears , openly based on a popular series of cuddly figures.
Maturing in a community centered on aggression and the war machine, numerous these animals are fixated on slaughtering unicorns, because of a sacred text that tells the bears they were once masters of the forest, before the horned beings forced them out.
A few haven’t fully accepted the brainwashing, , would rather sample substances or engage sexually in the woods.
In contrast to their gentle counterparts, these vivid animals show sexual organs and clear sex drives.
For a particular particularly cruel, cynical bear, Bluey, the war with the unicorns turns into a road to power — and especially to supremacy over his more tender, more compassionate sibling Tubby.
This bear behaves aggressively , an obvious sociopath , and while fear takes over his group and takes his comrades one by one, he takes increasingly control on his own behalf, in increasingly gory, harmful methods.
Meanwhile, the horned creatures are experiencing their own terror, through a growing, harmful creature in their woods.
“In the early stages, it feels like a comedy,” the filmmaker stated. “Yet it becomes a more intense and sad movie. And in the finale, it becomes a scary feature.”
Unicorn Wars starts out similar to one of the most whimsical movies by a legendary filmmaker, that uncover a naughty glee in allowing cartoon characters swear, engage in violence, or have intimate relations.
Afterward it turns into more akin to a more grim work from that artist, with increasingly visual gore , a noticeable link to the real suffering of conflict.
By the end, it’s a complete theatrical horror carnage.
The terror that makes the film a Halloween-friendly movie begins well before than that description suggests.
Unicorn Wars is ideal for the devoted lovers of violence, for lovers of graphic films who desire to watch a movie they have not watched previously, and are able to withstand a plot that offers no restraint.
View it with the lights off free from interruptions, and that ending will dig deep within you and linger.
How to view: Available for digital rental or sale on several online services.
