Combining the western and mystery genres and adding a healthy dose of gallows humor, The Hateful Eight -- writer-director Quentin Tarantino's eighth film -- is an intense character study and a valentine to glorious old school 70mm filmmaking.
Largely set inside a Wyoming post dubbed Minnie's Haberdashery, the story finds eight strangers snowed in together during a blizzard, some of whom harbor dark secrets and violent intent. A pair of bounty hunters -- Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and John "The Hangman" Ruth (Kurt Russell) -- cross paths and end up sharing a stagecoach ride. Ruth is escorting his prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to the town of Red Rock where she's to be hanged for murder. Along the way, they also pick up Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a former Confederate raider who claims to be the new sheriff of Red Rock.
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Largely set inside a Wyoming post dubbed Minnie's Haberdashery, the story finds eight strangers snowed in together during a blizzard, some of whom harbor dark secrets and violent intent. A pair of bounty hunters -- Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and John "The Hangman" Ruth (Kurt Russell) -- cross paths and end up sharing a stagecoach ride. Ruth is escorting his prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to the town of Red Rock where she's to be hanged for murder. Along the way, they also pick up Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a former Confederate raider who claims to be the new sheriff of Red Rock.
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