20 Best Thrillers on Netflix Right Now (January 2026): Relay and More

For his eighth film, screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino came up with a western thriller he called The Hateful Eight. Kurt Russell plays John “Hangman” Ruth, a difficult man to like, but few could dispute his reputation as a bounty hunter. His latest bounty, “Crazy” Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is chained to his arm as they travel in a stagecoach. As a snowstorm intensifies, Ruth reluctantly allows another bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and Chris Mannix (Walton Glasses) to join them.

When the group arrives at Minnie’s Haberdashery, Ruth can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong as he is surrounded by strangers, including Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), Bob (Chris Mannix) and a Confederate general, Sanford “Sandy” Smithers (Bruce Dern). Ruth isn’t sure she can trust this group, or even the two men she went to town with. But with the snowstorm brewing, there’s nowhere to go.

The Hateful Eight is streaming on Netflix.