Pornographic violence, absurdist dark comedy with eight hateful characters in one room in the Old West.

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2016)

I saw this on DVD from my local public library. Set in Wyoming a few years after the Civil War, it was filmed in the Colorado Mountains.
The best part of this movie are the early outside shots of a stagecoach running on a snowy road in Colorado with the Rocky Mountains as the backdrop. I've visited there many times, rode motorcycles through the mountains, it never gets old.
We usually attach the descriptor "pornography" to graphic sex but here the pornography is the graphic violence, a Tarantino trademark. It seems to be his way of being absurd, as if to say 'If it is over-the-top graphic then it won't be taken seriously.'
There is a very good core of a story here, a bounty hunter is transporting a notorious and wanted female member of a gang to Red Rock where she will be tried and hanged, and he will collect the bounty. But a snowstorm forces them (plus a few others) to hole up in a roadside place of business. The rest of the movie, long at 2 hrs and 45 minutes, takes place in and around that one-room place of business.
The first hint that things might not be right is when they arrive and try to open the door voices from inside yell "You have to kick it open", then they have to take boards and nails to close the door. Much later in a flashback we see how the door was damaged to make that necessary.
The 8 main characters are all untrustworthy and the story is to see which would prevail. There are shootings with blood spurting out, often complete heads blown off. The blood and gore take over and the story becomes secondary.
This has many interesting points and good characters but in no way is a good movie. The highest ratings are from young male viewers who seem to like the cursing accompanied by all the blood and gore. But for me, I could never recommend this to anyone I know.
When I first learned about this movie last year I had no intention of seeing it, but my curiosity got the best of me. I am glad I saw it, to know what a really poor movie looks and sounds like.