Welcome to Tarantino's Black Humor and Excessive Action

Since his feature debut "Reservoir Dogs," Quentin Tarantino has established his unique genre of "Tarantino-style violent action" with films like "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill," and perfected his craft in recent years with "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained."

In his first foray into closed-room mysteries, Tarantino depicts an unpredictable murder case within a confined space. The film features seven suspicious-looking men and one woman, all with hidden agendas, trapped in a mountain lodge on a snowy night. These eight individuals, who appear to have gathered by chance, come from diverse backgrounds and are all lying. From the opening moments, every conversation, glance, and casual gesture is said to be laden with subtle and intricate foreshadowing. We are inevitably drawn into a puzzle filled with Tarantino's signature black humor and excessive action from the very beginning.

Naturally, the cast boasts Tarantino's troupe of eccentric actors, so expectations are well-founded. Samuel L. Jackson, indispensable to Tarantino's films from "Pulp Fiction" to "Django Unchained"; Tim Roth from "Pulp Fiction"; Kurt Russell from "Death Proof"; Bruce Dern and Walton Goggins from "Django Unchained"; Michael Madsen from "Kill Bill"—this stellar ensemble is joined by acclaimed newcomers Jennifer Jason Leigh from "Synecdoche, New York" and Demián Bichir from "Che: Part One."




The cinematography is by Robert Richardson, a three-time Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography for "JFK," "The Aviator," and "Hugo." For this film, he embraced shooting on 70mm film. Production design was handled by Yohei Taneda, who worked on "Kill Bill," and costume design by Courtney Hoffman from "Django Unchained." Furthermore, the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone scored the music, earning him the 88th Academy Award for Best Original Score.

"The Hateful Eight," a closed-room mystery where eight "hateful" eccentrics clash with their lies, is now playing nationwide as of Saturday, February 27th.