Der Samurai

Der Samurai (2015) is a German film that I recently watched on Shudder. The storyline involves a cross dressing young man who has been given the daunting task of becoming a samurai and using his sword to embark on a killing spree is a small German town. A straightedge police officer tracks him down and looks to understand and stop the samurai.

This movie is written and directed by Till Kleinert (episodes of Girl Cave) in his directorial debut and stars Michel Diercks (Mission of Honor), Pit Bukowski (The Bunker), Uwe Preuss (In the Face of Crime) and Michael Fritz Schumacher (Valkyrie).

This movie was wild and a unique addition to the horror genre. The wood scenes were creepy and very well executed. The characters were fascinating, unpredictable and original. There's solid kill scenes with great blood splatter and gore; although, I will warn there's a penis scene that was unnecessary 😂. The character's reactions to circumstances had me cracking up and weren't exactly realistic. I needed people more in shock by the shenanigans they were witnessing. The corpses looked authentic and were well created and the ending was hilarious, especially the final.

Overall, this was a fun watch and is worth your time. I would score this a 6/10 and recommend seeing once.