Here’s the first trailer for Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ — VIDEO

Bullets, blood and Samuel L. Jackson. 

As holiday traditions go, they seem about as appropriate as forcing yourself on anyone who happens to wander anywhere near mistletoe.

But with "Django Unchained" and now "The Hateful Eight" dropping during the holidays, Quentin Tarantino has given moviegoers a whole new reason to be excited about Christmas.

Set in post-Civil War Wyoming,"The Hateful Eight" focuses on a collection of bounty hunters, a fugitive, a hangman, a cow-puncher and a Confederate general, all of whom are seeking refuge from a blizzard.

"The Hateful Eight" opens in limited release Dec. 25 and everywhere else Jan. 8.