Demons

1971 drama

Rating: 16/20

Plot: Hell hath no fury like a samurai scorned.

The world is a sea of blood as our scorned hero goes cray-cray and chops some people up. A transition from a color sunset to black and white is jarring but not as much as the twists that director Toshio Matsumoto throws in his storytelling. The story is a simple one of revenge, but there are some avant-garde shadings and some of the bleakest imagery you'll ever see. This isn't your typical samurai picture. This one is brooding and nihilistic, a world without any good guys with swords and with limbs strewn all over the place.