The Gruesome Animated Movie Ending That Haunts Audiences
Out of every mature animated films I’ve ever watched, nothing has lingered in my mind quite like the terror-laced finale of a viscerally violent and deeply subversive film from 2022 Unicorn Wars.
In the year 2015, this Spain-based filmmaker developed a dark, melancholy , often savage world with several minor , forlorn glimmers of optimism.
Although Unicorn Wars feels like it originated from a drive to expand the medium further, the filmmaker clarified that it was rather an attempt to express a universal, multicultural theme concerning “the common origin of each battle.”
That idea is conveyed by means of a squad of brightly hued teddy bears , openly based on a popular line of cuddly figures.
Maturing in a culture built around warmongering and the war machine, many of the bears are obsessed with exterminating unicorns, due to a holy book which states the bears they previously were kings of the woods, before the unicorns expelled them.
Some haven’t fully fallen for the brainwashing, and would rather experiment with substances and fornicate in the woods.
Unlike their cuddly counterparts, these vivid animals have visible sexual organs , obvious sex drives.
For one especially vicious, cynical bear, Bluey, the battle with the unicorns turns into a road to control — and specifically to authority above his gentler, nicer brother the bear Tubby.
This bear behaves aggressively and a seeming sociopath , and when fear dominates his squad and claims his comrades one by one, he takes increasingly influence personally, in increasingly bloody, damaging approaches.
Meanwhile, these mythical beings are experiencing their own nightmare, through a growing, destructive monster in their forest.
“Initially, it feels like a comedy,” the filmmaker stated. “However it evolves into a more intense and melancholic movie. And by the end, it becomes a terrifying movie.”
Unicorn Wars commences resembling among the whimsical films from an iconic filmmaker, which find a mischievous joy in allowing animated figures curse, engage in violence, or have intimate relations.
Subsequently it becomes closer to a bleaker movie by that same director, with increasingly visual gore and a palpable relation to the real suffering of battle.
In the finale, it becomes a complete Grand Guignol massacre.
The horror which makes this an ideal spooky-season viewing kicks in well before than indicated.
The Unicorn Wars is one for the hardcore lovers of violence, for fans of extreme cinema who want to view a film they have not watched previously, and who can handle a story which delivers unflinching brutality.
Watch it in a dark room without any distractions, and the finale will dig into your mind and take up residence there.
How to view: Offered for rental or purchase on several online services.
