8 Best Snowy Westerns Ever
2. The Hateful Eight (2015)
After the success of Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino returned to the Old West for his next outing. Set after the Civil War, a stagecoach navigates through the wintry Wyoming landscape with passengers including a notorious bounty hunter and his high-price prisoner. Sheltering new passengers along the way and with a storm brewing, the group seeks overnight refuge at a stagecoach stopover. But not every guest is who they say and others may also be out for the bounty...
Legendary composer Ennio Morricone won an Oscar for his music, the first western he’d scored in 40 years. Notably, this was only the eleventh film ever to be shot in the Ultra Panavision 70 process (65mm film with 1.25x squeeze anamorphic lenses, for an aspect ratio of 2.76:1). This extremely rare process had not been used since Khartoum in 1966, nearly 50 years before.
Tarantino sent the film on a “roadshow” tour complete with an intermission in the correct format.