The Gruesome Cartoon Movie Conclusion That Haunts Audiences

Among all the adult-oriented animated films I’ve personally viewed, nothing has remained with me quite like the dread-soaked ending of the viscerally violent and deeply subversive 2022 movie Unicorn Wars.

Back in the year 2015, this Spain-based writer-director created a grim, bleak , often savage universe that included a few small , forlorn hints of optimism.

While The Unicorn Wars seems like it came from a drive to expand the medium even more, the director stated that it was rather a try to communicate a universal, multicultural message about “the common origin of every conflict.”

This theme is expressed by means of a squad of colorful pastel bears , clearly inspired by a famous line of lovable characters.

Being raised in a community centered on militarism as well as the defense industry, many of these animals are fixated on exterminating unicorns, thanks to a holy book which states them they previously were rulers of the forest, before the horned beings expelled them.

A few have not completely fallen for the propaganda, and prefer to experiment with substances and mate outdoors.

Unlike their gentle equivalents, these vivid animals have visible genitals and clear urges.

For a particular notably brutal, pessimistic creature, Bluey, the battle with unicorns turns into a route to control — and especially to authority over his softer, more compassionate sibling the bear Tubby.

Bluey is a bully and an obvious antisocial figure , and when horror takes over his unit and takes his comrades individually, he takes more and more influence on his own behalf, via progressively bloody, harmful methods.

Meanwhile, these mythical beings are experiencing their own horror, in the form of an expanding, deadly beast in their forest.

Unicorn Wars commences feeling a bit like one of the more whimsical movies from an iconic filmmaker, which find a mischievous joy in allowing animated figures swear, engage in violence, or engage sexually.

Subsequently it evolves into more akin to a darker work from the same artist, including ever more explicit brutality , a noticeable connection to the actual suffering of war.

By the end, it’s an outright extreme drama bloodbath.

The horror that turns this a perfect Halloween movie begins well before than one might expect.

Unicorn Wars is ideal for the hardcore gorehounds, for fans of graphic films who wish to see a movie they haven’t ever viewed until now, and can endure a story that offers absolutely no punches.

Watch it with the lights off with no disturbances, and that ending will crawl into your mind and stay with you.

Where to watch: Offered for streaming or buying on several digital platforms.