The Grisly Cartoon Movie Ending That Haunts Fans

Among all the adult-oriented animated films I have ever viewed, nothing has remained with me as much as the terror-laced conclusion of the viscerally violent as well as overwhelingly transgressive 2022 movie The Unicorn Wars.

In the year 2015, the Spain-based filmmaker created a grim, somber and often savage world with some tiny , forlorn glimmers of optimism.

Although The Unicorn Wars seems like it stemmed from an impulse to push the medium even more, the filmmaker explained that it was actually a try to express a universal, multicultural theme concerning “the shared root of all wars.”

That idea is communicated via a squad of brightly hued teddy bears , obviously based on a popular series of cuddly characters.

Maturing in a culture centered on militarism and the military-industrial complex, numerous these animals are fixated on slaughtering the mythical beasts, thanks to a sacred text which states them they previously were kings of the woods, until the horned beings forced them out.

A few did not entirely accepted the brainwashing, and would rather experiment with drugs and engage sexually in the woods.

In contrast to their gentle equivalents, these colorful critters have visible genitals , obvious libidos.

For a certain notably brutal, pessimistic creature, the character Bluey, the conflict against unicorns transforms into a path to control — and especially to authority above his gentler, kinder brother Tubby.

The character behaves aggressively and an obvious antisocial figure , and while horror dominates his group and claims his comrades sequentially, he grabs increasingly influence on his own behalf, through ever more bloody, harmful methods.

Simultaneously, the horned creatures are suffering their own terror, through a spreading, deadly beast in their woods.

The Unicorn Wars starts out resembling among the quirky features from a legendary animator, that discover a naughty glee in allowing cartoon characters curse, shoot each other, or sex each other up.

Then it becomes more akin to a more grim work from the same creator, including ever more graphic violence , a tangible relation to the actual tragedy of battle.

By the end, it is a complete theatrical horror bloodbath.

The terror that makes the film a perfect Halloween watch starts well before than one might expect.

Unicorn Wars is ideal for the devoted lovers of violence, for lovers of extreme cinema who want to watch something they haven’t ever watched previously, and can endure a plot that pulls unflinching brutality.

Watch it in a dark room without any distractions, and that ending will burrow deep within you and linger.

How to view: Available for streaming or buying on various online services.