The New Trailer For Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Is Here And Wow, It’s A Messed-Up Christmas Movie

You know that thing where you gather with your family and friends each year and happily take a much-needed break from your busy lives to just be there for one another? You buy some thoughtful gifts, painstakingly prepare an enormous feast, then you settle in for a couple of days of wholesome low-key entertainment that includes watching Hugh Grant dancing to classic ’80s pop.

If it sounds like I just described your personal version of hell, you might prefer Quentin Tarantino’s alternative plan. Releasing his new film The Hateful Eight on Christmas Day in the US, he wants everyone to gather with their equally as terrible friends, take a much-needed break from their shitty family and settle in for a couple of hours of holiday rage-venting while watching eight old-timey strangers commit cold-blooded murder.

Though a fairly big teaser dropped a couple of months ago, the film’s official trailer has just landed this morning and it gives much more detail on the Cluedo-esque characters involved in this whole thing. There’s the bounty hunter, the hangman, the confederate, the sheriff, the Mexican, the little man, the cow puncher (what?), and the prisoner.

Depending how Grinchy you really are — and perhaps how much time you’re spending with your parents these holidays — you may identify best with the latter.

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The Hateful Eight’s Australian release dates are yet to be released, but in the US it’s premiering in 70mm on Christmas day and heading to general release on January 8.