The Hateful Eight

2015 Directed by Quentin Tarantino

No one comes up here without a damn good reason.

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Samuel L. Jackson Kurt Russell Jennifer Jason Leigh Walton Goggins Demián Bichir Tim Roth Michael Madsen Bruce Dern James Parks Dana Gourrier Zoë Bell Lee Horsley Gene Jones Keith Jefferson Craig Stark Belinda Owino Channing Tatum Quentin Tarantino

Alternative Titles

The Hateful 8, The H8ful Eight, Shmonat ha'snou'im, Bjaurusis aštuntukas

drama mystery western crime

188 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Ralph ★★★★ 39

Just finished the extended version which I liked way more than the theatrical cut. The characters are far more fleshed out, there are more clever set ups and foreshadowing. It's a different experience from the film and worth a watch for both fans and those who've never seen it.
NOTE: There was one frame that wasn't rendered in episode 3 which was very odd. Please fix that Netflix. This crew didn't bust their asses to shoot this in 70mm just to have an intern not render the export properly.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 33

100/100
I wasn’t prepared for this. Obviously, I went into The Hateful Eight with the same expectations as I do with every newly-minted Tarantino flick. I wanted snappy dialogue, grand moments of violence, and masterful sequences of flourishing character, and I got all of that, for sure. However, I didn’t expect to walk out of the theater with a stupid grin on my face, barely able to walk because of the rampaging poignancy and blazing hatred woven through every frame. Going even further, I also wasn’t ready to ponder the question of whether The Hateful Eight was legitimately my new ‘favorite film’.
Yeah, you read that right. Hell, even I was stunned. A new Tarantino? My F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E film? What the…
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 70

It's winter in Wyoming, post-Civil War, USA. A bounty hunter, his $10,000 female bounty, another bounty hunter, a recently elected sheriff, an old war general, a hangman, a silent cowboy, and some fella named Bob all cross paths at Minnie's Haberdashery. Who can be trusted? Where's Minnie? Will it ever stop snowing? It's QT's 8th film about 8 hateful people. Now, who wants a drag from a Red Apple tobacco hand rolled cigarette?
Not only was 2015 the year of the western, but it's the year of the Kurt Russell mustache. My lord! From Bone Tomahawk to The Hateful Eight, Kurt's facial hair is fuckfabulous. You can't help but think of John Carpenter's The Thing. People trapped in the snow.…
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★½ 11

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

67/100
Let's get the "problematic" (someday I'll be able to use that word without air quotes again) stuff out of the way first:
Is the film misogynistic? Hard to believe anyone who's seen Tarantino's other movies (especially Death Proof) would even entertain that suspicion, and it doesn't hold up in a vacuum, either. One could interpret the ending (and many have) as a statement that misogyny trumps racism, but that observation is arguably feminist, and at the very least productively provocative; there's no indication whatsoever that Tarantino hates women. I'd argue instead that Daisy's gender is pretty close to irrelevant—or, to the extent that it is relevant, it's a nod toward being inclusive/subverting expectations. (And, yes, QT enjoys toying with…
Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 2

Watched the “Extended Version” on Netflix, which means I finally got to see this movie the way Quentin Tarantino intended: Awkwardly chopped into four episodes on my iPhone.
More on this weirdness at ScreenCrush.
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 2

i saw this last night at the hollywood theater in Portland and Quentin Tarantino himself randomly showed up and did a surprise q & a and im still too in shock that he said hi to me to write a review
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 38

"Youuuu gonnaaaa maaaake aaaa deaaalll
withhh thissss diaaabolicaaalll biiiiiiiiitch!?!"
Hugely visceral & downright disgusting.
Tarantino's best film since the 1990s.
Jennifer Jason Leigh steals the show.
(Honorable mention for Goggins, obviously.)
Review by Evan ★★★★½ 16

The deadliest, bloodiest, and most entertaining game of Clue ever played.
Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins were fucking fantastic. All of the performances were GREAT, but those two were the standouts for me.
Quentin Tarantino has once again created an all around well-made film. The writing is great. The dialogue is top-notch. The cast is freaken awesome. The performances are amazing. The action is absolutely brutal. And the visuals are incredible. Wether you like Tarantino's films or not; you can't say he doesn't know what he's doing.
The Hateful Eight is a bloody good time with some very memorable characters.
Review by kayla ★★★★★ 59

It’s my birthday and I’ll watch The Hateful Eight for the trillionth time if I want to
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★★ 14

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This is probably the most significant role for coffee in a Quentin Tarantino film yet.
Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★ 11

Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
Metacritic Metascore: 68
IMDB: 7.8
88/100
Release Date: 30 December 2015
Distributor: Weinstein Company
Budget: $44M
Worldwide Gross: $155.7M
OSCAR Nominations: 3
OSCAR Wins: 1
Major Marquis Warren: "OHHH, you believe in Jesus now, huh, bitch? GOOD, 'CAUSE YOU 'BOUT TO MEET HIM!"
SYNOPSIS: In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
- Source: IMDb
The action is set in antebellum Wyoming, in the heart of a raging blizzard, in a frontier bar. The setting is very important here.
TRIVIA: Despite being their sixth collaboration as actor and director, this was the first time Samuel L. Jackson received top…
Review by nathaxnne ★★★★★ 31

The Locked-Room-Mystery-Evil-Cabin-Western America not only apparently deserves but supposedly could stand to use. The Hateful Eight is A Horror Movie more than it is anything else. The Morricone Cues from Exorcist II and The Thing as well as the David Hess (!) song from The Last House On The Left are clues enough but the threat here is not Demonic Possession nor Alien Invasion but the Accrued Evil of the United States In Action, with all parties at each others' throats in a scramble to suppress those on the bottom cruelly and violently until an error happens and the tables are turned, for however long, and common cause is made only in violence against another. This is Grand Guignol Home…

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