Winner of the Oscar for Best Original Score. "Tarantino takes you on a wild and hugely entertaining ride... The Hateful Eight is devilishly good." - Globe & Mail (4/4 stars)
"Quentin Tarantino’s latest film (**** out of four) mashes up the Western genre with a murder mystery to depict one night with eight unpleasant strangers — some more loathsome than others — packed together in the most tense of situations. It’s also one of the iconoclastic filmmaker’s finest works, mixing gallows humor, ultra-violence and strong character work into a real potboiler.
"Set during Reconstruction in Wyoming, the movie opens with bounty hunter John 'The Hangman' Ruth (Kurt Russell) taking dangerous fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to justice and perhaps a meeting with a guillotine in Red Rock. Along their snowy journey via stagecoach, they pick up former Union soldier Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), as well as Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), an ex-Confederate renegade on the way to Red Rock to be the new sheriff.
"They stop at a cheery little establishment called Minnie’s Haberdashery on a mountain pass, but instead of Minnie they find another four interesting people: an old Southern general by the name of Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern), Red Rock’s resident hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the place’s current caretaker Mexican Bob (Demián Bichir), and notorious cow puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen).
"The eight are stuck there when the weather turns bad, and things go downhill fast as alliances are made, mysteries are revealed, people start dying and the latter half of the movie turns into a revelatory whodunit." - USA Today