History Film / TheHatefulEight

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Daisy Domergue enters the film with a black eye and receives a constant barrage of blows, pistol whippings, and an elbow to the face, and she is shot three times. Her face is hit with blood, brain matter, stew, and bloody projectile vomit. This thread is played for laughs. Finally [[spoiler:her slow death by hanging]] is seen as a joke by the two final survivors. This ongoing thread approaches a TraumaCongaLine.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** Mannix's Marauders, a gang of Confederate rebels who refused to accept the whole unconditional surrender thing, led by Chris' father.
** In the German dub, the haberdashery is called Minnies Miederwarenladen.

* AllThereInTheScript: According to the written script, Minnie and Sweet Dave became acquainted with one another as slave and owner before the Civil War. Sweet Dave once had Minnie as a slave, but they somehow stayed together after the abolition of slavery, for unknown reasons. It could be speculated that Sweet Dave was secretly in love with Minnie, or that he helped her purchase land to start her own business as a way of paying her reparations for keeping her enslaved in the past. The nature of the connection between Minnie and Sweet Dave has been left as an exercise for the reader.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, ''everyone'' except Warren and Chris are dead, and the latter two are left bleeding out on a bed in the lodge, almost certainly to die.]]

[[UnreliableNarrator Six or eight or twelve years]] after UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, a stagecoach hurtles through the Wyoming winter towards the town of Red Rock. Its passengers are BountyHunter John "The Hangman" Ruth (Creator/KurtRussell) and his captured quarry Daisy Domergue (Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh), who he is transporting to Red Rock to face justice (and the gallows). Along the way, the stagecoach picks up two strangers who happened to be out on the road: Major Marquis Warren (Creator/SamuelLJackson), a black ex-Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Creator/WaltonGoggins), a Southern renegade who claims to be Red Rock's newly-appointed Sheriff.

* AnyoneCanDie: What else would you expect from Tarantino? Although [[spoiler:Smithers]] has already died by that point, [[spoiler:John Ruth's]] gruesome end is what really solidifies this trope. By the end of the film, [[spoiler:''every single character'', major or minor, is dead except for Warren and Mannix, both of whom have sustained heavy wounds and will more than likely die after the credits roll]].

Tarantino also plans to adapt the film into a stage play, which is actually how Harvey Weinstein thought the material would best be served in the first place.

When the film became available on Creator/{{Netflix}} in April 2019, an extended version in the form of a 4-episode MiniSeries was unveiled on the streaming service alongside the theatrical cut, to the surprise of ''everyone''.

** Warren himself is introduced waiting patiently in the snow for a passing stagecoach, and politely requesting a ride when one appears. Notably, he is waiting in the ''middle'' of the road, [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses seated on a small pile of corpses]] he was in the process of transporting to claim their bounties.

** Everyone in the Lodge when O.B.'s Stage arrives is given one pretty quickly; Bob is introduced as a sterotypical Mexican mixing English with Spanish, Oswaldo Mobray is portrayed as being a peppy little Englishman with a jovial nature, Joe Gage appears to be a quiet loner who sits in the corner and rarely speaks, and Sanford Smithers is a crooked old (racist) man who rebuffs people and makes harsh comments. In truth, Sanford is the only one who is legit: [[spoiler:The other three are given their '''REAL''' Establishing moments in Chapter Five, where it's revealed that earlier that morning, they turned up at the Lodge and murdered everyone there in cold blood, except for Smithers. They also make some rather cruel remarks about the innocent people that they just killed, calling them fat and dropping numerous N-Bombs.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:The plot is motivated by Daisy's brother, Jody, who rounds up a group of four men and takes over the lodge before John, Chris, and Warren arrive so he can rescue her. The first thing he does upon revealing himself to the group is say how much he missed her. In addition, Jody's group appear to be TrueCompanions, as Joe and Oswaldo hug Bob and wish him "good luck" before he goes out to meet John Ruth, Daisy, Warren, and Mannix.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: For a given value of "good" — when [[spoiler:Chris Mannix]] explains to Daisy why her utter lack of empathy or compassion is the reason why he can't trust her at all, she's clearly and visibly confused. It never occurred to her that all her actions discredit any kind of promise she might make.

* EvilIsHammy: Since the film is set in a WorldOfHam, this trope was a given, but Daisy Domergue is quite possibly the hammiest of them all.
* EvilOldFolks: General Sanford Smithers, a racist Confederate general who once captured black Union soldiers and massacred them all because he couldn't be bothered to drag them to a prison camp. [[spoiler:He also plays along with Jody's plot to rescue Daisy.]]
* EvilVsEvil: Well, we were warned that the characters are hateful. The only major player who hasn't committed any outright atrocities that we know of is O.B., and he's just there to be TheDriver.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Barring the {{Flashback}} with [[spoiler:General Smithers' son]], the film takes place over the course of a single day. Even [[spoiler:the other {{Flashback}} where Jody, Oswaldo, Joe, and Bob murder everyone at the haberdashery takes place a few hours before the coach with Warren, John Ruth, Daisy, Mannix and O.B. arrives]].
* FaceHeelTurn: At the end of the film, Mannix insists on letting Daisy try to make a deal for her life, claiming he just wants to hear what she has to say. But he starts getting more and more interested as she ups to ante, and shooting his partner seems like a small price to pay... [[spoiler:Subverted when he denies her in the end. He knew her threat (fifteen more gang members waiting to sack Red Rock) was bullshit, so he really did just want to see what she'd say to try and get out of the mess she was in.]]
* FacialHorror: Daisy's face is subject to firstly blows from John Ruth, and also biohazards in the shape of stew, vomit, blood, and brains. This is possibly intended to show her character, but it is also DisproportionateRetribution.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Jody Domingre. He's polite to the people he meets, compliments them on the things they own (namely Minnie on her lodge), and thanks them for the things they do for him, like roll him a cigarette. But make no mistake, he's a cold-blooded killer, and all of his charm doesn't stop him from blowing the top of Minnie's head off and gunning down everyone at the Lodge.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler:When the film flashes back to when Jody's gang first arrives at Minnie's Haberdashery, it's pretty clear that everybody inside is going to be murdered.]]

** When John Ruth shows Warren's Lincoln letter to Daisy, she spits on it, causing Warren to punch her right out of the stage. Since she's chained to John Ruth, he goes with her. In the snow, he complains that [[spoiler:his arm was nearly torn off. After he dies around the end of the second act, Daisy (still tethered to his corpse)[[AnArmAndALeg chops the same arm off]] trying to get free during the climax]].
** John Ruth threatens to knock out Daisy's front teeth in Chapter One, when she objects to Warren travelling in the stage coach with them. He actually does that later in the film [[spoiler:before he dies]].
** The chessboard between the two chairs at the fireplace. [[spoiler:The conspicuous lack of a second player even though the game itself is clearly still in-progress is an early hint of someone disappearing before Ruth's carriage arrives.]]

** Warren carefully reloads his gun at one point, showing he is [[GenreSavvy fully aware]] that he does not have BottomlessMagazines. But also foreshadowing his running dry later on.

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Mannix wasn't lying. He really ''[[CassandraTruth is]]'' the new Sheriff of Red Rock.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: During Chapter Five, [[spoiler:Joe Gage has a man named Charlie cornered in a tool shed outside the Lodge. While Charlie begs for his life, Joe cocks the shotgun and aims it at Charlie's head. We only see the very next scene from the waist down as Joe fires the shotgun and most likely blows Charlie's head to pieces]].
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Done to Warren by Jody, with a bullet to the balls.]]

* HeroWorshipper: Mannix to General Smithers — Smithers was apparently a War Hero during the Civil War.

** Applies to [[spoiler:Mannix]] as well when [[spoiler:he stops short of killing Joe Gage because the latter is unarmed, despite Mannix himself having just been wounded by Gage's accomplices and it's likely that Gage will try to finish the job once the wounded Mannix lets his guard down. Gage even knows this and [[YouWouldntShootMe tauntingly reminds him of it]] when Mannix turns the gun his way.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Inverted. Mannix seems poised to kill Warren and let Daisy go free in exchange for Daisy's gang not sacking Red Rock, only to turn the deal down and reason out how unlikely it is that her gang is there. Played straight immediately after, as he faints from blood loss once he finishes his speech. With Warren lying crippled in bed, Daisy makes for a machete to cut off John Ruth's arm.]]

* InstantDeathBullet: Mostly played straight, thanks to BoomHeadshot moves, but averted with [[spoiler:English Pete a.k.a. Oswaldo Mobray, who gets shot in the gut and still carries on a civil, if pained conversation. He gets shot in the chest again and is still moving around in pain in the background for the rest of the film. Judy and Gemma don't die after the first shot, either, and Gage and Mobray (respectively) fire a second to finish them off.]]
* InsultToRocks: It turns out Warren had a good reason to believe [[spoiler:that Bob's story wasn't true. Minnie [[DeliberateValuesDissonance proudly displayed a sign]] saying "No dogs or Mexicans." She took it down two years ago [[CrossesTheLineTwice to accommodate dogs.]]]]
* IShallTauntYou: Warren tells Smithers a horrific story about [[spoiler:how he killed his son so that Smithers will try and shoot Warren, and Warren can kill him in self-defense]].

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, ''everyone'' except Warren and Chris are dead, and the latter two are left bleeding out on a bed in the lodge.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: A rare case where it's one of ''the heroes'' who set up the dark tone of the latter half. While not exactly peachy keen, ''The Hateful Eight'' didn't get exactly gory or dark until [[spoiler:Warren tells his story in an attempt to goad Smithers into shooting him. Not only did this cause the first onscreen death in the film, but as revealed later, it proved to be a good enough distraction for Joe Gage to slip poison into the coffee and lead to not just the deaths of John Ruth and O.B., but also the confrontation between Warren and the gang]].

* LockedRoomMystery: Becomes this once [[spoiler:Ruth deduces one of the guests is Daisy's accomplice]], and even more so after [[spoiler:someone poisons the coffee]]. While the door isn't actually locked, it's impossible to enter or leave without everyone in the room knowing it, as explained under RunningGag.

* NeverTrustATitle: There are actually "nine" people in Minnie's Haberdashery; the titular Hateful Eight, and the ButtMonkey stagecoach driver O.B. [[spoiler:And even if O.B. isn't hateful enough to qualify, there's one more under the floorboards who is...]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: The ads put an emphasis on action and humor, painting the film as another over-the-top western adventure like ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. In reality, [[spoiler:the movie is ''much'' darker than its predecessor, and is really more of a horror movie set in the old west than an actual western. There's comic relief to break up the tension and misery, but it's definitely not the real selling point]].
** The film [[spoiler: Also shares a number of similarities with Title/AndThenThereWereNone, with a group of people, trapped in an isolated location, being killed and not knowing who to trust, which again is far different than what the trailers indicate the film will be.]]
* NobleBigot: Mannix is a horrible racist, but aside from that, he is willing to buy drinks for Ruth and Warren (who is black, and Mannix has other valid reasons to despise him) for picking him up, praise O.B's talent as stagecoach, assist in putting a rope road, and is a jovial fellow. [[spoiler:He also didn't shoot Gage (though he really wanted to), since he surrendered, and ends up siding with Warren.]]

* PassThePopcorn: Daisy gleefully chows down some jerky whilst watching Warren and Mannix argue in the stagecoach.
* PetTheDog: Chris is a racist asshole, but he does offer to buy John and notably Marquis dinner and drink with them when they get to Red Rock in gratitude for saving his life. [[spoiler:As he's one of the only characters who isn't lying about who they really are, he is being entirely genuine.]]

** John Ruth tosses Oswaldo and Gage's guns down the well, leaving him, Mannix, and Warren the only ones with guns. [[spoiler:Shame the gang had planted firearms under nearly every item of furniture in just such an eventuality, not to mention the guy under the floorboards.]]
** After the shootout, [[spoiler:Warren tells Jody to toss his guns up while threatening to shoot Daisy. Jody throws one, and when he claims to have none left, Warren tells him to shit one out in the next three seconds before they shoot her]].
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Mixed with SayMyName. Marquis' gloating to General Smithers about [[spoiler:raping and killing Smithers' son: AND CHESTER. CHARLES. SMITHERS. '''''SUCKED!!!!!''''' ON THAT ''WARM...'' '''BLACK...''' '''''DINGUS...''''' FOR AS LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG AS HE COULD!]]

* RapeAsDrama: A male on male rape scene which ends with the victim being killed by the rapist, [[spoiler:Warren]], is a major plot driver. [[spoiler:The scene is narrated and also seen in flashback — although it may be fictional — and prompts General Smithers to try and kill Warren, who kills Smithers in self-defense.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: As it turns out, it's what happened to [[spoiler:General Smithers' son, shortly before he was executed by Marquis (who is also the said rapist), [[UnreliableExpositor if his monologue to Smithers' wasn't made up to bait the General into attempting to shoot him]]]]. If it is true, his [[spoiler:eventual death by having his testicles shot off and the resulting blood loss]] is definitely KarmicDeath.

* RecycledSoundtrack: As Music/EnnioMorricone had limited availability to work on the film's score (one of the only times a Tarantino film featured an original score), the film also makes use of several unused tracks from Morricone's score for ''Film/TheThing1982'' and "Regan's Theme" from ''Film/ExorcistIITheHeretic''.
* RiddleForTheAges: Was Chris Mannix really the sheriff of Red Rock, and that was just a lie to pressure John Ruth into save him? [[spoiler: Apparently, Walton Goggings asked Tarantino about this, and he said that he was up to Goggins to figure it out. Goggins probably decided that Mannix was telling the truth, given how much his character acts like a sheriff throughout the movie]].
* TheReveal: Most of the characters get one, although the biggest is when [[spoiler:we find out that Daisy's brother, Jody, is hiding underneath the floorboards of the lodge, and reveals himself by shooting Warren through the floor. Also, the reason why the bounty is so high is because Daisy is a member of her brother's notorious gang.]]

* SceneryPorn: The first few minutes and some other parts throughout show extensive shots of the snow covered landscape in which the film takes place, filmed in "glorious 70mm."

** Joe Gage says at one point, "A bastard's work is never done" — a popular tagline on posters for ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.

** The two actors from ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' [[spoiler:die the same way they do there. Groucho AKA Joe Gage gets shot to death quickly via multiple bullets from someone not standing. And English Pete AKA Oswaldo Mobray gets shot in the stomach but stays coherent and conversational for some time. A second bullet to the chest leaves him all-but-dead, twitching on the floor but still alive to die slowly.]]

** The speech of Mobray (portrayed by Tim Roth) on how the execution should be performed by the impartial man with no prior knowledge of anyone involved in the case is basically a twist on a similar speech in Quentin Tarantino's segment of ''Film/FourRooms''. Fittingly enough, the receiving side of the speech in ''Four Rooms'' was Ted portrayed by the same Tim Roth, and the speaker was played by...Tarantino himself.

** [[spoiler:The song that plays as Joe Gage follows Minnie's hired man and kills him is a reference to the same song over a similar scene in ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''.]]
** [[spoiler:Mannix and Warren's]] final moments before the end credits seems to mirror a similar scene in ''Film/PlanetTerror'' when Sheriff Hague and JT, feuding throughout the movie, albeit on a friendlier note, spend their last moments together.
** The name of Samuel L. Jackson's character is one to the TV-Western producer/director, Charles Marquis Warren.

** The title is an allusion to Creator/FedericoFellini's ''Film/EightAndAHalf''. The credits call it "The Eighth Film by Quentin Tarantino" and 8 is an ArcNumber of the film, similar to Fellini who titled his film since he had made 7 1/2 films before his masterpiece.
** Six Horse Judy is bouncy and hyperactive in the manner of Creator/DorisDay in ''Film/CalamityJane''. Both women dress alike, Jane rides shotgun on a stagecoach whilst Judy drives, and when entering their chosen drinking establishments Jane sits on the bar while Judy perches on a table.
** Some of the lighting during the exterior shots of Minnie's Haberdashery during the blizzard are reminiscent of ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}''. O.B. and Mannix setting up a guide rope to the outhouse establishes another prop that was important in ''The Thing'', and the overall story [[spoiler:ends with the last two surviving members of the cast (two men, one black and one white) victorious... but nonetheless in conditions that all but guarantee that they won't be surviving for that much longer.]]
** [[spoiler:John and O.B. vomit blood after drinking the poisoned coffee. Just like how Yuka vomited blood after eating poisoned food in ''Film/BattleRoyale''.]] The movie can be reminiscent of an extended version of [=BR=]'s lighthouse massacre, where someone getting poisoned instigated the eventual shoot-out.

* ScareChord: There is a really aggressive violin like music that plays when things are about to get serious.

* ShownTheirWork: General Smithers is accused of murdering African-American Union soldiers and other war crimes, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Pillow several of which were really committed by Confederates]] during the American Civil War, along with selling soldiers back into slavery. It got so bad that Lincoln and Ulysses Grant refused to exchange Prisoners of War until the South treated African-American soldiers fairly.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Daisy Domergue enters the film with a black eye and receives a constant barrage of blows, pistol whippings, an elbow to the face, and she is shot three times. Her face is hit with blood, brain matter, stew, and bloody projectile vomit. This thread is played for laughs. Finally [[spoiler:her slow death by hanging]] is seen as a joke by the two final survivors. This ongoing thread approaches a TraumaCongaLine.
* SlasherSmile: Daisy gives a chilling one as she sings her final verse to "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" [[spoiler:shortly after John Ruth drank the poisoned coffee]].
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Moderately to the cynical side of the scale, but not as far as you'd think going by the premise. [[spoiler: EverybodyDies, including the innocent bystanders. Six of the ten (non-posthumous) characters were murderers in on the conspiracy to free the bounty. The remaining four consisted of one TokenGoodTeammate and three fairly dark anti-heroes (the closest thing the movie has to a "hero" in the end is an unapologetic white supremacist and former Confederate bushwhacker). Basically every character was a violent, selfish criminal. ''But'', in the end, it was two of those same selfish criminals who changed for the better, putting aside their differences to avenge the innocents killed by the villains and honor the man who saved their lives. In the process they brought Jody's gang to justice and saved future travelers from the fate of Minnie and her workers. Even the final shot of the movie, featuring the two "heroes" painfully bleeding to death alone in a cabin full of corpses, manages to have a tinge of optimism at the end via the (fake) Lincoln letter.]]

* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Each and every member of the Domergue gang. Daisy, Jody, "Bob", "Oswaldo", and "Joe Gage".]]

** Warren and Mannix being on the stagecoach, General Smithers being at the lodge. [[spoiler:While Warren killing Smithers provided a useful distraction to poison the coffee, he and Mannix are the only ones left alive at the end of the movie — and even then, not for long.]]
** Daisy gives the game away with her final made-up verse to "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" [[spoiler:shortly after she had seen him drink the poisoned coffee]]. As a result, John Ruth smashes her guitar and chains them back together. Sure enough, this means [[spoiler:she has to waste valuable time hauling a ''much'' bigger corpse far enough to reach a machete, cut his arm free, and then go for a fallen gun, which gives Mannix enough time to wake up and shoot her.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}''. The story of characters isolated in the snow and having heavy themes of paranoia and share the bleak tone. Both feature Creator/KurtRussell as the lead and a soundtrack by Music/EnnioMorricone. Three songs from ''The Thing''[='s=] soundtrack even show up in ''Hateful Eight'' (two unused in the film but featured on the soundtrack, and one used when they find the site of the UFO). [[spoiler:Both films also end with the two main characters, one black and one white, calmly waiting to die.]]
** Also to Tarantino's first film, ''Film/{{ReservoirDogs}}''. Both films are a mystery about unsavory characters trapped in a building.
* SpottingTheThread: There are multiple threads everywhere for Warren to spot, on the account of him being familiar with the Haberdashery and all its traditions and quirks.
** Warren realizes that something is suspicious when he spots a lone jellybean on the ground, and the rest kept up high in glass jars do not contain that color jellybean. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that this was dropped by Minnie's helper when Jody and his gang took over the lodge.]]
** Warren notices the stew tastes exactly like it always has done when made by Minnie, except that she is supposed to have gone away for a week according to the Mexican.

** [[spoiler:Mannix]] spots a thread of his own: [[spoiler:Why would Warren be ''stripped of his commission'' following a controversial war record if he was ''pen pals'' with President Lincoln?]]

* StraightGay: [[spoiler:If Warren's treatment of Smithers's son is true.]]

* TeethFlying: During his final NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Daisy, Ruth manages to destroy the bottom two thirds of Daisy's front two teeth. Very disturbing. She even spits one of them at his face.

* ThisIsMyChair: Sweet Dave's Chair. [[spoiler:The fact that Sweet Dave would apparently bring his chair with him to the other side of the damned mountain rather than leave it behind is one of the many inconsistencies that Warren notes.]]

** [[spoiler:While [[AntiHero not an entirely good person]], John Ruth is pretty much the only member of the titular Hateful Eight who can be considered a decent human being... he's also one of the first to bite the bullet.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:After Jody is killed, all his gang members are willing to give themselves up so that Mannix and Warren can collect their bounties, in exchange for letting Daisy go.]]
* UnreliableExpositor: It is not known whether the story Warren told regarding the fate of Smithers' son was true or a lie he made up just to piss off Smithers. Warren had already established [[spoiler:with the Lincoln letter]] that he had no compunctions about lying to get what he wants, and he wanted Smithers to try and kill him [[spoiler:to justify killing Smithers in self-defense]].
* VigilanteInjustice: Discussed
--> '''Oswaldo Mobray''' (lecturing Daisy): John Ruth wants to take you back to Red Rock to stand trial for murder. And, if... you're found guilty, the people of Red Rock will hang you in the town square. And as the hangman, I will perform the execution. And if all those things end up taking place, that's what civilized society calls "justice". However, if the relatives and the loved ones of the person you murdered were outside that door right now, and after busting down that door they drug you out in the snow and hung you up by the neck...that would be frontier justice. Now the good part about frontier justice, is it's very thirst quenching. The bad part is it's apt to be wrong as right!

* WeirdWest: It's not at all fantastical or sci-fi, but it's still a batshit crazy horror western. It is the WildWest meets ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'', after all.
* TheWestern: The film is set in post-Civil War Wyoming, with the cast of characters including bounty hunters, ex-soldiers, and outlaws. Only with the familiar desert scenery of the Southwest swapped out for the harsh winter of Wyoming.
* WhamLine: After listening to a deal offer from [[spoiler:Daisy, Chris seems swayed on her side and letting her go, along with considering killing Warren... and then Mannix throw the deal right into her face, explaining he just toyed with her for his own amusement and wasn't fooled for a second]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Or rather, "What Happened to the Cat?" In [[spoiler:the flashback to before Jody's gang massacre the tenants of Minnie's Haberdashery]], we see a housecat in the cabin. The cat has mysteriously vanished by the time the movie proper starts.

** [[spoiler:A self-induced version happens a bit earlier. After Jody makes his entrance and Oswald and Mannix shoot and wound each other, Mannix could and would very well shoot Gage too, and is indeed going to do so, as Gage just confessed to be the one who poisoned the coffee, and Mannix himself asked Warren for the permission to execute him in cold blood (just as Warren did to Bob) a minute earlier. However, just as Mannix is about to pull the trigger, Gage desperately reminds him that he is unarmed, and he arguably hit some spot, because Mannix ends up holding his fire for the moment. Mannix finally does shoot Gage only after he retrieves a gun and is going to fire at him and Warren.]]

* WorldOfJerkass: The title is no lie, as everyone is bitter, racist and prone to violence, and most are criminals, to boot.

* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:John Ruth thinks he's the gruff CrazyPrepared man of the law who AlwaysGetsHisMan. While this is mostly true, and he would be TheHero in a more traditional, lighthearted western, he doesn't expect to be poisoned in an exceedingly dark ensemble western LockedRoomMystery when he and his prisoner get locked in up in Minnie's with a bunch of other sketchy dudes with absolutely no way out. [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Chris]] takes over for him as the only somewhat heroic character in the film, since Warren is a clear NominalHero whose objective is simply just to stay alive.]]

''The Hateful Eight'' is a 2015 [[TheWestern Western]] and the [[MeaningfulName eighth film]] written and directed by Creator/QuentinTarantino.

[[UnreliableNarrator Six or eight or twelve years]] after UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape towards the town of Red Rock. Its passengers are BountyHunter John "The Hangman" Ruth (Creator/KurtRussell) and his captured quarry Daisy Domergue (Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh), who he is transporting to Red Rock to face justice (and the gallows). Along the way, the stagecoach picks up two strangers who happened to be on the road: Major Marquis Warren (Creator/SamuelLJackson), a black ex-Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Creator/WaltonGoggins), a Southern renegade who claims to be Red Rock's newly-appointed Sheriff.

Yet as [[ClosedCircle the storm overtakes the mountainside cabin, locking them in for the night]], tensions and suspicions begin to ignite and it soon becomes clear that the eight travellers may not all make it to Red Rock after all.

Notably features the first Western score by Music/EnnioMorricone since ''1981''--especially unique as Tarantino is usually not one to "trust" composers to score original music for his films ([[RecycledSoundtrack although he doesn't mind taking music written for other movies]]). This was also the first film to be shot in the 2.76:1 aspect ratio Ultra Panavision 70 process since ''Film/{{Khartoum}}'' in 1966. It was also presented in a "Roadshow" format in about 140 theaters worldwide with 70mm projection, extended runtime and a special programme.

Due to the nature of the film and the wiki's policy about trope titles, '''''unmarked spoilers follow''''', and on related pages.

** Creator/KurtRussell plays a character among many [[Film/TheThing1982 who can't be trusted, huddled in a snowstorm]]. [[spoiler:Unlike MacReady, Ruth doesn't last nearly as long]].

** Mannix's Marauders, a gang of Confederate rebels who hadn't accepted the whole unconditional surrender thing, led by Chris' father.
** Only in the german dub: Minnies Miederwarenladen

** According to Warren's account, [[spoiler:General Smithers' son didn't beg for his life or to go free, but knowing he was going to die, instead begged for a blanket to die with some comfort, to the point of performing fellatio after Warren [[FalseReassurance promised to give it to him.]]]]
** When [[spoiler:Joe Gage finds Charly in the outhouse, the latter attempts to beg for his life by saying he had nothing to do with whatever Minnie did to make him mad. It doesn't help him much as Joe blows his head off]].
* AllThereInTheScript: According to the written script, Minnie and Sweet Dave became acquainted with one another as slave and owner, before the Civil War. Sweet Dave once had Minnie as a slave, but they somehow stayed together after the abolition of slavery, for unknown reasons. It could be speculated that Sweet Dave was secretly in love with Minnie, or that he helped her purchase land to start her own business, as a way of paying her reparations for keeping her enslaved in the past. It is believed that Quentin Tarantino has left the audience to make up their own theories about the connection between Minnie and Sweet Dave.

** Played with. John Ruth is called "The Hangman" because he always takes his targets alive rather than dead, so they always hang.

** [[spoiler:And it's still played straight, as Daisy is indeed hanged to death at the end of the film. But John Ruth wasn't alive to see it happen, though both Warren and Mannix are happy to hang her in respect of him.]]
* AmbiguousEnding: By the end of the film [[spoiler:both Mannix and Warren are likely too wounded to survive long enough to be found after the blizzard but their deaths are never confirmed on screen nor is it ever revealed if there were fifteen extra gang members waiting in Red Rock or if it was one last desperate ploy by Daisy to dodge the noose.]]
* AnachronicOrder: It wouldn't be a Tarantino film without it. In this case, there are some previous events to the start of the film proper which are explored in flashback form towards the film's climax.

* AntiHero: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Three of the titular Eight qualify, [[spoiler:since everyone else is either one of the villains or in league with them]], but ''everyone'' in this film has done terrible things in the past or commits them on-camera. [[spoiler:Warren once escaped a POW fort by burning it to the ground, killing everyone in it (including his fellow prisoners), to say nothing of how he killed both General Smithers and especially his son (not that either of them were good people either), and attacked Indian villages with the rest of his regiment; Mannix is a Southern racist who is strongly implied to have committed racist atrocities both during and after the war; Ruth is the most honest of the three, but still smacks around his unarmed female prisoner whom he is proudly taking to town to be hung. The rest of the Eight , though, are just murderous thugs and their selfish, DirtyCoward, war criminal hostage. The only exceptions who ''aren't'' one are O.B. and the background characters killed in chapter 5.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: What else would you expect from Tarantino? Although [[spoiler:Smithers]] had already died by that point, [[spoiler:John Ruth's]] gruesome end is what really solidifies this trope. By the end of the film, [[spoiler:''every single character'', major or minor, is dead except for Warren and Mannix, both of whom have sustained heavy wounds and will more than likely die after the credits roll]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[UnreliableNarrator It's up for debate whether or not he was telling the truth]], but all the same, Warren [[spoiler:claims that he forcefully stripped Smithers' son to his bare ass and forced him to walk in the snow for two hours in sub-zero temperatures before raping and murdering him. In reality, the average person would only last two to twenty ''minutes'' naked in below zero temps before freezing to death]].

** Warren and Smithers could not have met at the Battle of Baton Rouge, because it took place a few months before the Union Army permitted African Americans to enlist in its ranks (unless they were passing as white) in late 1862. Could be justified considering this is set in Tarantino's SharedUniverse, which went AlternateHistory with ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', ''Film/IngloriousBasterds'', and ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood''.

** It turns out the main reason General Smithers is there [[spoiler:despite the fact he witnesses the brutal murders of Minnie and her workers is that he doesn't "give a fuck about these people" because he just met them]]. This leads directly to him meeting Major Warren, [[spoiler:who not only reveals the horrific way his son died, but baits him into getting shot]].

* AuteurLicense: Creator/QuentinTarantino was able to convince The Weinstein Company to allow him to shoot the film in 70mm Ultra Panavision, a format that had not been used in nearly 50 years, and then forgo any digital post-processing or editing. Quentin ''then'' persuaded the producers to spend an ''additional'' $10 million to equip ~140 theaters around the world with the 70mm projection equipment and optics needed to [[http://www.wired.com/2015/12/hateful-eight-roadshow-tech/ exhibit the film in a 1950's style "Roadshow" format]]. Remember, this was several years after even "basic" 35mm film projection had been replaced by digital and most of the 70mm projectors obtained for the roadshow had to be [[ScavengerWorld rebuilt from discarded equipment]].

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Warren is ''all'' about this. [[spoiler:He knows Bob is lying from the beginning and that something is up from [[SpottingTheThread spotting the various threads]], and basically has the entire situation under control after things go south, killing Bob, who he ''knows'' is rotten (he's correct), holding up Joe and Oswaldo because they ''could'' be (they are); and giving a gun to Chris, who Warren concludes is likely the only non-deceased person at Minnie's who is genuinely on ''his'' side because of the coffee (right again). [[DidntSeeThatComing He only gets blindsided by Jody being under the floorboards.]]]]
* BadassLongcoat: Marquis Warren, John Ruth, Chris Mannix, Bob, Joe Gage, and General Smithers wear them.
* BatmanGambit: The reason Warren tells Smithers the story. [[spoiler:It allows him to fairly (more or less) claim self-defense when he kills Smithers, because Smithers was clearly reaching for the gun.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with Daisy Domergue. She enters the film already looking beat up and only becomes moreso.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh has described the dynamic between John Ruth and Daisy Domergue as "The most dysfunctional couple since ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf''".
* BeQuietNudge: Be Quiet Elbow-to-the-Face that really sets John Ruth's character.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jody's gang is killed to a man and Daisy is hanged, sparing future travelers from the fate of Minnie and her employees, but everyone else is either dead or (in the case of Warren and Mannix) close to dying, and what's worse is that the movie ends before we find out for sure.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Tarantino calls his characters "a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true." Verges on EvilVersusEvil. The closest "Good Guy", by Tarantino's standards, was O.B., as he was the only one among the group who lacked any racist or ruthless tendencies. He was just the unlucky individual in the room. [[spoiler:Ultimately, it ends up as two war criminals who were at least willing to put the past behind them to enforce the law vs a gang of psychopathic murderers.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Zig-zagged thanks to Tarantino's [[AnachronicOrder circular storytelling.]] [[spoiler:The first character death shown is that of a white man, but it's later revealed that Minnie's crew (three of which were black) had already been killed beforehand, with Minnie being the first killed with a BoomHeadshot at point-blank range.]]
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:"Christmas with mother... it's a wonderful thing."]]

* BottleEpisode: Pretty much the entire film takes place inside and around Minnie's Haberdashery, a large, single room lodge. The total number of characters are limited to the titular Hateful Eight as well as a handful of minor supporting characters.

* CallBack: O.B. (James Parks) uses the line, "Well, smoke..." (smoke being the jocular term for an African-American). In ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', a member of the Le Quint Dickey mining company (played by Michael Parks) uses this same line when addressing Django. In both instances, they address a black bounty hunter. In both cases, the lines are said by son and father, respectively.

** Creator/QuentinTarantino narrates two different sections, but never appears in person.
* CardboardPrison: Part of Warren's backstory involves him having been captured by the Confederates and put into prison camp. How does he escape? [[KillItWithFire He just burns down the entire camp.]]

** [[spoiler:Neither John Ruth nor Major Warren believes Chris' story about him being the new sheriff of Red Rock. He '''is''' the new sheriff of Red Rock, and the only character other than [[TokenGoodTeammate John Ruth]] who isn't lying about ''anything.'']]
** Likewise, Chris twice warns [[spoiler:General Smithers that Warren is just trying to rile him up enough to go for a gun so Warren can kill him. Smithers doesn’t listen, grabs the gun, and Warren kills him]].
* CentralTheme: ''Property'' and ''possession'', particularly the film addressing what it means to own something and the legitimacy of that, whether that concept is arbitrary and what control - or lack of control - a person has over something they claim ownership of.

* CombatPragmatist: Warren, who has no problem wielding multiple hidden guns, shooting targets in the back, or killing someone who moves strange at him.
* ContrivedCoincidence: All these characters ''just happen'' to meet on the road and/or wind up in the same lodge moments before a blizzard hits. [[spoiler:Although it's not quite that bad, since three of the eight are trying to save one from another one. Warren, Mannix, and Smithers being there as well is still mighty coincidental.]]

** Not exactly unusual, but it sure as hell is cruel. During TheReveal, [[spoiler:Grouch Douglas/Joe Gage and Pete Hicox/Oswaldo Mobray join Jody Domingre in murdering the Lodge's inhabitants. They both gun down two women, Judy and Gemma respectively, but one bullet each only wounds them. They then spend about another minute on the floor, bleeding and in pain, with tearful expressions that are evidently begging for mercy. They don't get any, and are finished off by the two Outlaws in cold blood.]]
** The final fate of [[spoiler:Daisy. She ends up hanged, just as promised. Problem is, normally death by hanging happens when there is no more support under executed person, the rope tightens up under their weight, snapping the neck and causing instantaneous death. Instead, Daisy is slowly dragged up by wounded Chris and Warren and suffocates to her death while trashing around from asphyxiation, as they are in no condition to give her a "proper" hanging]].

** [[spoiler:Warren, who boasts about raping a man in front of that man's father (whether or not he actually did it), gets his dick blown off, and is implied to have died from the blood loss.]]
** [[spoiler:Jody Domingre has one, to a lesser extent. During Chapter Five, Jody blows Minnie's head open when he shoots her from point-blank range. After he's forced to surrender at gunpoint, he has his own head blown open by Major Warren and his corpse tumbles back down into the basement he just climbed out of.]]

** The extended and detailed sequence of [[spoiler:Daisy's violent lynching is the climax to which the film's narrative is leading. This CruelAndUnusualDeath is supposedly justified by Daisy's criminal nature and/or the act of racial reconciliation involved in her execution — equally as she is a racist Southerner, so it is supposedly LaserGuidedKarma.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:John "The Hangman" Ruth. He's a badass, [[CrazyPrepared crazy-prepared]] bounty hunter who seems like he can handle anything, including the trap he knows he's walking into. He wasn't expecting poison, however, and dies of it halfway through the film. If anything, Warren and Mannix take his place.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Much like Tarantino's earlier films (and given that the film is set in the post-Civil War West), characters routinely drop N-bombs and make assorted racist statements.
* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:On the off chance Warren actually did rape Chester to death.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:Jody probably shouldn't have had Bob play TheCaretaker of Minnie's Habadashery, since Minnie doesn't like Mexicans. This is one of the first clues that something's not right.]]

** General Smithers. [[spoiler:After murdering the Lodge owners, Jody Domingre makes a deal with him; Jody and his gang will spare Smithers' life if he keeps his trap shut when John Ruth arrives with Daisy. He didn't count on a former opponent from the War showing up, who in turn murders Smithers in "self-defense" after provoking a response, in order to exact vengeance for the execution of black soldiers in the War.]]
** [[spoiler:Joe Gage/Grouch Douglas. When it's revealed he's an imposter, he surrenders as Chris Mannix is about to shoot him, placing his hands on the wall and yelling that he is unarmed. In the very next Chapter, the story flashes back several hours to when Joe/Grouch has a worker at the Lodge, Charlie, at his mercy with a Double Barrelled Shotgun. Charlie begs for his life, but Joe just shoots him dead. And he '''smiles''' as he does it.]]

* EnclosedSpace: Except for the two first chapters in the mountains with the carriage and the occasional trip to the outhouse and the barn [[spoiler:and a quick reveal of a basement, a flashback to the mountains, and a man being executed out back]], the entire movie plays out in Minnie's Haberdashery.
* EnemyMine: Several characters team up at several points out of distrust at the others.

* NiceHat: Except for General Smithers, [[spoiler:who probably removed his in keeping with the rules of the Haberdashery when he first arrived]], every member of The Eight has one.

** When [[spoiler:Joe Gage finds Charly in the outhouse, the latter attempts to beg for his life by saying he had nothing to do with whatever Minnie did to make him mad. It doesn’t help him much as Joe blows his head off]].

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Barring the {{Flashback}} with [[spoiler:General Smithers’ son]], the film takes place over the course of a single day. Even [[spoiler:the other {{Flashback}} where Jody, Oswaldo, Joe, and Bob murder everyone at the haberdashery takes place a few hours before the coach with Warren, John Ruth, Daisy, Mannix and O.B. arrives]].

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: John Ruth spends the entire movie pronouncing Daisy Domergue's last name as "DO-mer-goo", but near the end when ''she'' says it, it is revealed that the correct pronunciation is "Do-MIN-Gray". This is an important plot point, as if he'd known the correct pronunciation, Warren would have known [[spoiler:she was related to the famous outlaw Jody Domergue and his gang]], as Ruth certainly did.

* BadassMustache: John Ruth sports a glorious one. Really, each of the Eight (except for Joe and of course Daisy) and O.B. has one.

* WarIsHell: How [[NotSoDifferent both Warren and Smithers]] justify their behavior at wartime (the former burning prisoners of war alive and the latter slaughtering surrendering troops). Mannix doesn't buy the excuse in Warren's case.

** Daisy Domergue's blood-drenched face is a nod to Creator/BrianDePalma's ''Film/{{Carrie}}''.

** Joe Gage says at one point, "A bastard's work is never done" — a popular tagline on posters for ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.
** [[spoiler:A chair is covered with blankets and fur to hide the bloodstain of the man killed in it. Jules and Vincent use the same technique to disguise the back seat of the bloodstained car in ''Film/PulpFiction''.]]
** Like in ''Film/PulpFiction'' again, [[spoiler:there's another man with a gun who's hiding out of sight and who has been listening to the whole scene since the beginning. And who gets shot moments after showing himself]].
** The two actors from ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' [[spoiler:die the same way they do there. Groucho AKA Joe Gage gets shot to death quickly via multiple bullets from someone not standing. And English Pete AKA Oswaldo Mobray gets shot in the stomach but stays coherent and conversational for some time. A second bullet to the chest leaves him all-but-dead, twitching on the floor but still alive to die slowly.]]
** "Say ''adios'' to your ''huevos''" certainly echoes [[Film/InglouriousBasterds "Say]] ''[[Film/InglouriousBasterds auf Wiedersehen]]'' [[Film/InglouriousBasterds to your Nazi balls".]]
** Sam Jackson got shot in the balls with Walton Goggins nearby. [[Film/DjangoUnchained In a previous movie, it's the other way around.]]

** Six Horse Judy is bouncy and hyperactive in the manner of Creator/DorisDay in the film ''Film/CalamityJane''. Both women dress alike, Jane rides shotgun on a stagecoach whilst Judy drives, and when entering their chosen drinking establishments Jane sits on the bar while Judy perches on a table.

** The speech of Mobray (portrayed by Tim Roth) on how the execution should be performed by the impartial man with no prior knowledge of anyone involved in the case is basically a twist on a similar speech in Quentin Tarantino's segment of ''Film/FourRooms''. Fittingly enough, the receiving side of the speech in ''Four Rooms'' was Ted portrayed by the same Tim Roth, and the speaker was played by... Tarantino himself.

* GenreThrowback: To the epic period films which defined the later years of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, such as ''Film/BenHur'' and ''Film/{{Khartoum}}.'' With this territory comes the three-hour running time, the ensemble cast, an overture, an intermission, a magnificent orchestral score, the highly-publicized use of 70mm film, and the RoadshowTheatricalRelease preceding the wide release.

* TheWestern: The film is set in post-Civil War Wyoming, with the cast of characters including bounty hunters, ex-soldiers, and outlaws.

'''Warren:''' [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging Well, it took him too long]], [[RealityEnsues so I done it for him!]]]]