The Hateful Eight (2015)

The Hateful Eight rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.8/10· 718K votes

Rotten Tomatoes74%

Metacritic68%

TMDb7.756/10· 15K votes

With 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 68/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About The Hateful Eight

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

Cast of The Hateful Eight

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  as Major Marquis Warren

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  Kurt Russell

  as John 'The Hangman' Ruth

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  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  as Daisy Domergue

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  Walton Goggins

  as Sheriff Chris Mannix

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  Demián Bichir

  as Bob

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  Tim Roth

  as Oswaldo Mobray

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  Michael Madsen

  as Joe Gage

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  Bruce Dern

  as General Sandy Smithers

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  James Parks

  as O. B. Jackson

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  Dana Gourrier

  as Minnie

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  Zoë Bell

  as 'Six-Horse' Judy

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  Lee Horsley

  as Ed

The Hateful Eight facts

Budget

$44M

Box office

$155.8M

Our take on The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino corrals a group of bounty hunters into a single snowbound stagecoach stop as a blizzard rages, then lets betrayal and deception curdle among them. Shot with theatrical patience, this drama-western-mystery is less about the frontier's open spaces than about a claustrophobic room full of people who cannot trust one another. It suits viewers who relish long, coiled dialogue, sudden violence and slow-building paranoia over conventional action. The confined setting and deliberate pace ask for patience, rewarding those willing to sit with mounting tension until it snaps. Ideal for admirers of the director's talky, chapter-driven style, and for anyone who enjoys a whodunit-flavored standoff where nobody's story quite holds.