The Hateful Eight (Blu-ray)
“No one comes up here without a damn good reason”
Six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles
through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter
John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer
Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in
these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the
road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L.
Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter,
and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be
the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth,
Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a
stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s,
they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces.
Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting
her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of
Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate
General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the
mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not
make it to Red Rock after all…
THE HATEFUL EIGHT also stars Channing Tatum, James Parks, Dana
Gourrier, Zoë Bell, Gene Jones, Keith Jefferson, Lee Horsley, Craig
Stark, and Belinda Owino.
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, THE HATEFUL EIGHT is
produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Stacey Sher and Shannon McIntosh.
Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein and Georgia Kacandes are executive
producers, and Coco Francini and William Paul Clark are associate
producers.
