Quentin Tarantino’s rarely-seen, single-film version of his martial arts revenge saga, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, is set to be released nationwide in theaters for the first time on Dec. 5, 2025, distributor Lionsgate announced.

The unified epic, which combines Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2 into one unrated film, will include a new, never-before-seen 7 1/2-minute animated sequence. This special presentation removes the cliffhanger ending from the first volume and the recap that opened the second.

Tarantino, who wrote and directed the film, emphasized the importance of seeing the combined work on the big screen.

“I wrote and directed it as one movie—and I’m so glad to give the fans the chance to see it as one movie,” Tarantino said. “The best way to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is at a movie theater in Glorious 70mm or 35mm. Blood and guts on a big screen in all its glory!”

Select presentations of the film are anticipated to screen in 70mm and 35mm in all major markets.

The film stars Uma Thurman as The Bride, who awakens from a coma four years after her former boss and lover, Bill, ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shoots her in the head, and steals her unborn child. The story follows her quest to hunt down Bill and the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.

Lionsgate, which manages library distribution rights for a large portfolio of Tarantino films, will handle the release. The studio’s Tarantino collection also includes Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Death Proof.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair also stars Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks, and David Carradine as Bill. The film is produced by Lawrence Bender.

Hot on the heels of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s $40 million opening weekend, Quentin Tarantino has compiled his favorite songs from all of his movies in one ginormous Spotify playlist. 

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The director took over the music streaming service’s “Film & TV Favorites” section to create a 71-track playlist of retro tunes that runs nearly four hours long. 

Tarantino included some obvious choices, including “Miserlou” by Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, which is perhaps best known from Pulp Fiction, and a remastered version of David Bowie’s haunting “Cat People (Putting Out Fire),” which famously kicks off the final chapter of Inglourious Basterds, just to name a few. Listen to the entire Spotify playlist above if you’re ready to go deep into QT’s musical faves.  

And if you want to hear the period-accurate songs featured in his latest 1969-set release, the entire Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack is also available on Spotify—check it out here: 

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Not that long ago it was revealed that Uma Thurman didn’t have the best time making the Kill Bill movies with Quentin Tarantino. She was injured and Tarantino took enough chances with her safety that he ultimately even apologized for the way he handled things.

You’d think that at age 49, Thurman wouldn’t really be feeling the idea of going back to play The Bride/Beatrix again. But she might be willing, and Tarantino might be willing to do a Kill Bill Vol. 3 with her before he truly retires—but her character would be the villain, this time. 

Via Collider, here’s Tarantino from the Happy Sad Confused podcast:

Me and Uma have talked about it recently, frankly, to tell you the truth. I have thought about it a little further. We were talking about it literally last week. If any of my movies were going to spring from my other movies, it would be a third Kill Bill.

If this happened, Tarantino has in the past indicated that the plot would be pretty simple and a direct result of the preceding movies, particularly the scene from the first movie when assassin Vernita Green’s daughter Nikki walks in immediately after Thurman’s Beatrix has killed her mother. 

Nikki grows up and wants revenge on Beatrix in Vol. 3. The assassin once known as The Bride did, after all, tell the girl “When you grow up, if you’re still feeling raw about it, I’ll be waiting.”

But who knows what Tarantino will do? His 9th film, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood just came out, and he’s been making noises about directing an installment in the Star Trek franchise—noises that sound more serious and less theoretical all the time. 

The director has said he’s done after film no. 10, and that the Star Trek wouldn’t be an original, therefore wouldn’t count. Kill Bill Vol. 3 would be that original—if it happens. 

When it comes to making movies that forever changed pop culture, Quentin Tarantino ranks among the most influential directors of our lifetimes. Whether he’s spinning cinematic gold out of a heist gone awry, an epic tale of revenge, or rewriting an infamous chapter in American history, Tarantino’s films are unequivocally cool, highly stylized and seamlessly mix gratuitous violence with gleefully dark humor.  

As casting news trickles out about his upcoming Manson Family epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, we can’t help but look back at QT’s output with the hope that he breaks his promise of only making ten movies. Here is Tarantino’s filmography, ranked.

9. Death Proof (2007)

Half of the Grindhouse duo that Tarantino did with long-time collaborator Robert Rodriguez, Death Proof is an homage to a genre that obviously had an impact on QT. It’s last on this list because so many of the hallmark’s of a Tarantino film just feel like they don’t hit home in the framework of a B movie. It might be because Tarantino is just too good. Still, even the worst Tarantino directorial outing ends up being a blast and Death Proof helped put Kurt Russell back into the spotlight and that’s something we’re damn glad happened.

8. Jackie Brown (1997)

Inevitably cast in shadow as the follow up to Pulp Fiction, Tarantino’s crack at a blaxploitation homage has an unbelievably good cast and nails double crossing plot with plenty of style, both cinematically and with its dialog. Easily one of Pam Grier’s best roles, it’s a tragedy how easy it is for Jackie Brown to get lost in the mix of Tarantino’s other works. Even though we rank it low, it’s undeniably still worth watching.

7. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

The only sequel to Tarantino’s name, Kill Bill Vol. 2 had the nearly impossible task of having to wrap up one of Tarantino’s best stories. We have a lot of love for elements of Vol. 2, Pai Mei’s story is absolute perfection and Bill’s final monologue still stick out for us, but it’s the uncharacteristically mushy ending that continues to feel out of place over a decade later.

6. The Hateful Eight (2015)

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The Tarantino movie that perfectly captures the unease of being sequestered with your enemies, The Hateful Eight’s villainous murder-mystery is, somehow, endlessly rewatchable. Excellent performances abound as QT builds moment after moment of foreboding and apprehension. Samuel L. Jackson’s speech goading a Confederate veteran might be one of the best in any Tarantino flick, and the movie’s stunning cinematography is utterly masterful.

5. Django Unchained (2012)

Perfectly balancing wild west adventure and humor, Django feels like a Tarantino movie out of place with the rest. That’s nowhere near a bad thing, either. Leonardo DiCaprio steals the show here, sliding into the villain role of Calvin Candie in a way that only Tarantino could get from an actor of Leo’s caliber. We didn’t expect this one to turn into a gorefest, but Tarantino’s hyper-stylized violence somehow works against the quaint background of the Antebellum South.

4. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

Tarantino doing kung fu is a high point for us. The story of the bride has everything going for it, and the iconic scenes QT put forth in Vol. 1 will stay with us for a long time. From the killer soundtrack to the anime interlude to the wonderful fight choreography of Uma’s showdown with the Crazy 88, Kill Bill Vol. 1 is endlessly rewatchable, even if Vol 2. Isn’t.

3. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

The movie that put Tarantino on the map did so with great, quotable dialogue and an unforgettable scene with an ear. So much of Reservoir Dogs feels personal to Tarantino; its Californian setting, its sidelong explanation of a Madonna song, even Quentin’s own brief cameo in that same diner scene. He may have been new to the director’s chair, but he was still able to knock out an undeniable classic straight out of the gate.

2. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

The huge cast, the revisionist history of a plot, the satisfaction of the bad guys getting what they deserve; there’s no wonder why Inglourious Basterds ranks high on this list. It’s one of the goriest and, simultaneously, one of the funniest of Tarantino’s movies, eliciting laughs, high-fives and cringes in rapid fire succession. We could watch Brad Pitt carve a forehead swastika any day.

1. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Universally recognized as Tarantino’s most iconic film, Pulp Fiction’s twisting plots are career high points for Sam Jackson, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Uma Thurman and possibly even Christopher Walken. Tarantino’s liberties taken with storytelling here solidified him as a undeniable auteur and locked in the trademarks that we look for in all of his movies. Pulp Fiction never misses a beat in its weaving of complex characters and stories, and is the yardstick against which all Tarantino movies must be judged, earning it the top spot on this list.

*Bonus. Four Rooms – The Man From Hollywood (1995)

Years before Grindhouse, Quentin contributed one of the four vignettes that make up Four Rooms, the madcap tale of an overworked and (mostly) understated bellhop at a hotel on New Year’s Eve. The other three stories about troublemaking children, lunatic lovers and a coven of witches are all good, but Tarantino’s contribution—the final story about a high stakes bet over a lucky lighter—is pure Quentin. If you’re a true QT fan, you absolutely owe it to yourself to give this one a watch. 

You’ve likely heard that Uma Thurman is the latest actress to accuse producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment… and you’ve heard a car crash and Quentin Tarantino are also involved. 

Before we break down what happened, here’s the car crash that could have killed Uma on the set of Kill Bill. It was released by The New York Times, but Uma just shared the video on Instagram.

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In an explosive interview with The New York Times, Thurman revealed that her relationship with Quentin Tarantino, who directed her in Pulp Fiction and again in Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, is not the genius-muse love-in suggested by Tarantino fan lore.

Thurman alleges that Tarantino coerced her into driving a shoddy blue convertible, the one from which she delivered the “I am gonna kill Bill” monologue, against her insistence he use a stunt double instead. 

She claimed the car was faulty, after being reconfigured from a stick shift to an automatic, and described it as a “death box.”

“Quentin came in my trailer and didn’t like to hear no, like any director,” Thurman recounted. “He was furious because I’d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ‘I promise you the car is fine. It’s a straight piece of road.'”

Tarantino eventually persuaded her and insisted, “‘Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won’t blow the right way and I’ll make you do it again.'”

The fallout from the crash was equally painful for Thurman.

“The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me. I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again,'” Thurman said.

“When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large massive egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.”

Miramax withheld the footage from Thurman, demanding she sign a document “releasing them of any consequences of my future pain and suffering.” Tarantino finally handed her the footage 15 years later.

“Quentin finally atoned by giving it to me after 15 years, right?” she said. “Not that it matters now, with my permanently damaged neck and my screwed-up knees.”

Thurman believes the incident was indicative of the abusive treatment she has received in Hollywood.

“Harvey assaulted me but that didn’t kill me,” she says. “What really got me about the crash was that it was a cheap shot. I had been through so many rings of fire by that point.” 

“I had really always felt a connection to the greater good in my work with Quentin and most of what I allowed to happen to me and what I participated in was kind of like a horrible mud wrestle with a very angry brother. But at least I had some say, you know?”

The incident followed two accounts of Weinstein, the producer on all of Tarantino’s films, harassing Thurman: once by pulling his usual bathrobe act in a Paris hotel room, again by shoving her down on a bed in a London hotel room. 

Both occurred around the 1994 release of Pulp Fiction. Thurman alleges she told Tarantino about the London incident but that he brushed it off.

“There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip,” Tarantino said in an interview with The New York Times after the release of the bombshell Weinstein expose. 

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” he said. “It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”

“I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard. If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”

In her Instagram post, Thurman suggested her relationship with Tarantino may have improved… and that he signed off on her releasing the video.

“Quentin Tarantino, was deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event, and gave me the footage years later so i could expose it and let it see the light of day, regardless of it most likely being an event for which justice will never be possible, he also did so with full knowledge it could cause him personal harm, and i am proud of him for doing the right thing and for his courage.”

It has not absolved him of controversy. While not related to sexual assault, his mistreatment of Thurman is the latest wrinkle in the #MeToo and #TimesUp saga. 

It’s hard to pin down exactly where Quentin Tarantino drew inspiration for his epic Kill Bill series. The genre-bending two-parter kicks off in blaxploitation territory, switches to spaghetti western, and then segues into a full-blown Hong Kong martial arts flick.

But a supercut video making the rounds on YouTube reveals just how much the freewheeling director managed to squeeze into four hours of film.

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The video features side-by-side comparisons of Vols. 1 and 2 with the throwback movies that supposedly inspired them. 

Some of this may be based on the editor’s suppositions, but similarities to classics like Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Fist of Fury (1972), and even Citizen Kane (1941) are undeniable.

Tarantino even harks back to his earlier work, like Pulp Fiction (1994), and references the earlier roles of his actors. Notably, Daryl Hannah’s comeuppance in Vol. 2 mirrors her demise in Blade Runner (1982). 

Kill Bill is undeniably messy, but Tarantino pulls it off masterfully.