The Gory Animated Movie Ending That Lingers Fans
Among all the adult-oriented animated films I have personally watched, no other has remained with me as much as the fear-filled ending of a graphically gory as well as deeply subversive film from 2022 Unicorn Wars.
Back in the year 2015, this Spanish filmmaker created a grim, bleak and often savage world with a few small , desolate twinges of optimism.
While The Unicorn Wars feels like it came from a drive to push animation further, the filmmaker clarified that it was rather a try to convey a widespread, multicultural message concerning “the shared root of each battle.”
That idea is communicated through a squad of vividly colored bears , clearly modeled after a famous line of cuddly figures.
Growing up in a culture centered on militarism as well as the military-industrial complex, a lot of these creatures are consumed by slaughtering the mythical beasts, thanks to a holy book which states the bears they previously were kings of the woodland, until the horned beings forced them out.
Some did not entirely fallen for the indoctrination, , would rather experiment with drugs and fornicate outdoors.
Unlike their cuddly equivalents, these colorful critters show sexual organs and definite libidos.
For one especially vicious, pessimistic creature, the character Bluey, the war against unicorns turns into a route to power — and particularly to dominance over his more tender, nicer brother the character Tubby.
Bluey is a bully , a seeming psychopath , and as terror takes over his group and kills his teammates one by one, he seizes more and more control for himself, via progressively gory, destructive ways.
Meanwhile, the unicorns are experiencing their own terror, in the form of a growing, destructive monster in their habitat.
“At the beginning, it seems like a lighthearted film,” the director stated. “However it evolves into a more dramatic and sad film. And in the finale, it’s a terrifying movie.”
The Unicorn Wars begins similar to one of the more quirky films by an iconic filmmaker, that uncover a naughty glee in permitting drawn beings curse, fire weapons, or have intimate relations.
Afterward it becomes closer to a darker film by that same director, featuring progressively explicit brutality and a tangible connection to the real horror of war.
Ultimately, it is a full-on theatrical horror massacre.
The horror that turns the film a Halloween-friendly viewing kicks in much sooner than that description suggests.
Unicorn Wars is one for the hardcore gorehounds, for lovers of extreme cinema who wish to view a movie they haven’t ever seen on-screen before, and who can handle a plot which delivers unflinching brutality.
Watch it with the lights off free from interruptions, and the conclusion will crawl under your skin and stay with you.
Where to watch: Offered for rental or purchase on various digital platforms.
