The Hateful Eight
Movie, 2015, The 2010s, Set in Minnie's Haberdashery
The Hateful Eight is #12 of 13 in release order and #9 of 13 in chronological order in the Quentin Tarantino.
The story
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
The Hateful Eight recap
The Hateful Eight (2015) traps eight strangers, one a prisoner bound for the gallows, in a Wyoming stagecoach lodge during a blizzard after the Civil War. Bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) is taking "Crazy" Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to hang in Red Rock. On the road he picks up Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a Black Union veteran turned bounty hunter who carries a letter from Abraham Lincoln, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a Confederate raider's son who says he is the new sheriff. At Minnie's Haberdashery they find Bob (Demián Bichir), who says he is minding the place, the hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) and the old Confederate general Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). Ruth suspects someone is there to free Daisy. Ennio Morricone won an Oscar for the score. Tarantino wrote and directed it as his eighth feature, following Django Unchained.
The Hateful Eight ending explained
The Hateful Eight ends with Warren and Mannix dying together after hanging Daisy. Someone poisons the coffee and Ruth dies; Warren works out that Bob is lying and kills him, and a man hidden in the cellar shoots Warren. A flashback shows Daisy's gang killed Minnie and her staff that morning, and that the hidden man is her brother Jody (Channing Tatum). Warren kills Jody, Mobray and Gage, and Mannix rejects Daisy's offer to switch sides. The two wounded men hang her from the rafters, and Mannix reads aloud the Lincoln letter, which Warren forged.
Post-credits scenes
No. The Hateful Eight has no mid- or post-credits scene.
Where to watch The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight isn't on a US streaming service right now. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 74%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Django Unchained, before Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- Chronological order: after Django Unchained, before Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren
- Kurt Russell as John 'The Hangman' Ruth
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue
- Walton Goggins as Sheriff Chris Mannix
- Demián Bichir as Bob
- Tim Roth as Oswaldo Mobray
- Michael Madsen as Joe Gage
- Bruce Dern as General Sandy Smithers
- James Parks as O. B. Jackson
- Dana Gourrier as Minnie
- Zoë Bell as 'Six-Horse' Judy
- Lee Horsley as Ed
Directed by Quentin Tarantino.