Over his first decade of moviemaking, Quentin Tarantino resisted capturing a big action sequence. Sure, the prodigious writer-director counted on violence — both implied and explicit — to fill up the frames of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. But that trio of black-humored and hard-boiled yarns mostly skipped over mass carnage and relied on extensive, verbose dialogue and dramatic storytelling. Gunshots, tortures, and blood stains only served as stylized punctuation. Until Kill Bill.

Leaning into his love for spaghetti westerns, grindhouse cinema, and kung fu classics, Tarantino turned his fourth-directed feature into a globe-trotting revenge tale about an unnamed “Bride” (Uma Thurman) questing to kill her former boss and the team of assassins who left her for dead on her wedding day. Unlike his previous filmography, Kill Bill Vol. 1, released in October of 2003, never skimps on guts and gore throughout the Bride’s death tour, leading to a third-act confrontation that turns a two-level night club into a slaughterhouse. It’s one of the most inventive, balletic, and bloodiest action spectacles in cinematic history.

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