Fight for Your Life (1977)
Directed by Robert A. Endelson
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
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Reuniting A Horrible Way to Die writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard, this low-budget home-invasion movie—shot on video and looking it—works both on its own terms and as a throwback to such slapped-together shockers as Fight for Your Life (1977) and Last House on Dead End Street (made in 1973 and released in 1977).
Cabin-feverish though it is, The Hateful Eight is still an elegantly composed chamber piece whose DNA shows a little bit of Andrei Konchalovsky’s Uncle Vanya (1970), a touch of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2 (1987), and just a dash of Robert A. Endelson’s Fight for Your Life (1977).
It is not, perhaps, as radical as some have made it out to be — screen Fight for Your Life or The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith for such people — but it’s still an electrifying achievement.