The Grisly Cartoon Movie Conclusion That Stays With Fans
Among all the adult-oriented cartoon movies I’ve personally viewed, no other has stuck with me quite like the terror-laced finale of the viscerally violent as well as deeply subversive film from 2022 The Unicorn Wars.
Back in the year 2015, the Spain-based filmmaker developed a grim, bleak , often savage universe with several minor , forlorn glimmers of hope.
While The Unicorn Wars feels like it came from a drive to advance the medium further, the filmmaker explained that it was rather a try to communicate a universal, multicultural message about “the shared root of every conflict.”
That idea is expressed through a band of vividly colored bears , openly modeled after a popular series of lovable figures.
Maturing in a society focused on warmongering and the military-industrial complex, a lot of the bears are fixated on slaughtering unicorns, because of a holy book that tells them they previously were rulers of the forest, until the unicorns drove them out.
Others haven’t fully fallen for the propaganda, , prefer to experiment with narcotics and engage sexually outdoors.
Unlike their cuddly equivalents, these bright beings display genitals , obvious urges.
For a certain notably brutal, cynical bear, the character Bluey, the conflict with the unicorns becomes a route toward dominance — and specifically to dominance over his softer, kinder brother the bear Tubby.
The character behaves aggressively , an obvious antisocial figure , and when fear overcomes his group and takes his teammates sequentially, he takes progressively power for himself, via progressively gory, destructive ways.
Simultaneously, the unicorns are experiencing their own nightmare, in the form of a growing, destructive monster in their forest.
“At the beginning, it feels like a comedy,” the director stated. “However it becomes a more serious and sorrowful film. And by the end, it’s a horror film.”
Unicorn Wars commences similar to among the quirky movies by an iconic filmmaker, that uncover a naughty glee in allowing cartoon characters curse, shoot each other, or sex each other up.
Afterward it evolves into closer to a more grim work from that artist, featuring progressively graphic violence , a palpable connection to the real horror of war.
Ultimately, it becomes an outright theatrical horror carnage.
The terror which makes this a perfect Halloween viewing starts a lot earlier than one might expect.
Unicorn Wars is ideal for the most dedicated lovers of violence, for fans of graphic films who wish to see something they have not viewed until now, and who can handle a story that pulls no restraint.
Watch it in a dark room without any distractions, and that ending will crawl under your skin and linger.
Where to watch: Available for streaming or buying on several digital platforms.
