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Sign in to your ScreenRant account Summary Generate a summary of this story follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recapQuentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair hits theaters in 2026, and it presents his two-part story in one large film, the way he intended it to be seen. This is excellent news for Tarantino fans, as not only is Kill Bill being re-released as one film, but it's also screening in theaters, and this means a chance to revisit its best moments on the big screen.
Kill Bill stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a woman whose former lover had her entire wedding party murdered before leaving her presumed dead in his wake. However, the Bride survives, and she has a checklist of people she needs to kill to find her revenge. Here is a look at the scenes in Kill Bill that we are most excited to see again on the big screen.
Michael Parks Doing Double Duty
Michael Parks as Earl McGraw in Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino has a lot of actors he loves to work with more than once, and one of the best is Michael Parks. As a matter of fact, Parks is so good that Tarantino cast him in two different roles in Kill Bill. His primary role was as Texas Ranger Earl McGraw, the man who was investigating the murders at the Bride's wedding.
However, what a lot of people didn't know was that Parks also played a second role, and this was something most people figured out when Kill Bill went to home video. Originally, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan star Ricardo Montalbán was set to play the Mexican pimp, Esteban Vihaio, a man who was Bill's first father figure.
However, Montalban couldn't make it to the script read-through, so Tarantino fired him and cast Parks in a second role. Earl McGraw, who also appeared in From Disk Till Dawn, appeared in the first part, and Esteban appeared in the second, allowing Michael Parks to pull double duty.
The Bride Gets Revenge In The Hospital
Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver standing above Uma Thurman in the hospital in Kill Bill
There were lots of villains in Kill Bill, and seeing the Bride mow them down was part of the fun. However, there was one bad guy whose death was even more satisfactory. The funny thing is that it wasn't any of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad or even Bill himself. It was a hospital orderly named Buck (Michael Bowen).
He was not a killer, but he was so much more despicable. He worked at the hospital where the Bride was laid up and had been sexually assaulting her and prostituting her while she was in the coma. This was terrible to realize, and Buck was someone who needed to pay for this in the worst possible way.
When the Bride woke up and realized what this disgusting man had been doing to her, she enacted her revenge, and it was her first act of brutality that set up the rest of the movie. Buck was so evil that seeing him mutilated and murdered was a refreshing start to the Bride's journey.
The Bride Vs. Vernita Green Hints At Future
Vivica A Fox as Vernita Green with a knife in Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino has said that he has envisioned a Kill Bill prequel that will explore the origin of Bill himself and what led him to become the crime lord that he did. However, an even more interesting proposition is making a Kill Bill sequel, a story that takes place years after the events of the movie.
This comes from the first major fight scene that the Bride takes part in, as she battles Vernita Green in her home. By this time, Green has retired from her life as an assassin and is a suburban housewife with a daughter of her own. However, that didn't save her, as the Bride was there to kill her, regardless of her social status.
The fight was incredible to watch, but the best part was after the Bride killed Vernita and then looked at the woman's daughter. The Bride simply said that if the little girl grows up and wants revenge, she will understand. It was cold as ice, and a perfect setup for a sequel.
The Origin of O-Ren In Anime
The O-Ren anime sequence in Kill Bill
There are a lot of great scenes in the Kill Bill movies, but one of the most impressive was a scene that took many viewers by surprise when the movie first came out. That is because, when the film introduced O-Ren, it showed her origin story. However, Tarantino decided to show the origin story using animation rather than a live-action scene.
Tarantino used Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell) to animate the scene to give it more of a Japanese anime feel. By implementing Tarantino's unique camera cuts and angles into the animated sequence, it kept his style while delivering a hauntingly beautiful scene that helped tell O-Ren's story.
Seeing this animated scene on the big screen again is sure to be a treat in Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
The Bride Vs. The Crazy 88
The Crazy 88 fight in Kill Bill
One thing to remember is that, before Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino shot a lot of dialogue scenes, some violent scenes with guns, and some brutal fight scenes. However, he had never shot a giant action scene before. The Bride fighting the Crazy 88 was the first major non-stop action scene that he had ever directed in one of his movies.
To that effect, it was a monumental success. The entire scene could have fit in well with the best martial arts epics, as the Bride had to mow down an entire private army of trained killers in the House of Blue Leaves. It was incredibly shot, with Tarantino starting slowly with the Bride fighting a few before she went nuts and fought everyone at the same time.
This was a six-minute fight scene that never let up, and even went to black and white to avoid having too much of the red stuff flying all over the screen, even though there were buckets of bloodshed before she killed every single man and woman in that building on her way to her battle with O-Ren. It was exhilarating.
The Bride Vs. O-Ren In The Snow
Uma Thurman as The Bride and Lucy Liu as O-Ren about to fight in the snow in Kill Bill
The most dynamic scene visually in Kill Bill was the fight scene between the Bride and Lucy Liu's O-Ren. The scene took place after the Bride fought her way through the Crazy 88s and killed countless people in the House of Blue Leaves. However, as action-packed as that scene was, this fight was gorgeously choreographed.
The Bride and O-Ren faced off outside the House of Blue Leaves in a snowy landscape. Both women pulled out their swords and had a dance-like fight. For fans of classic kung fu movies, this was clearly Quentin Tarantino's homage to Lady Snowblood, which he reportedly had his cast and crew watch before filming the scene.
The shots of the blood splattering on the white, snowy ground were incredible, and the final shot where the Bride scalps O-Ren was just the perfect contrast of beauty and violence.
The Bride Vs. Elle Driver
Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver fighting Uma Thurman as The Bride in Kill Bill
Elle Driver was always the seemingly most dangerous assassin that the Bride had to deal with, even more so than O-Ren. While O-Ren was the most powerful, thanks to the people who worked for her, no one was deadlier than Elle Driver. She almost killed the Bride while she was in a coma at the hospital, and it was Elle who killed Bill's brother, Budd.
That made their fight one that the audience had been waiting to see since the start of the film. When it finally happened, and when it came time to fight, the Bride fighting the Black Mamba was everything it was cracked up to be. Oh-Ren was a beautifully stylized fight, and Vernita was a brawl. This fight was a war.
What really makes the Bride vs. Elle Driver fight worth revisiting on the big screen is the hatred and violence involved in their fight. They used everything around them as a weapon and this was the most brutally violent fight in a movie full of great battles.
Pai Mei Training The Bride
Gordon Liu as Pai Mei training Uma Thurman in Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino signed a couple of legends from Asian cinema to appear in Kill Bill. Sonny Chiba signed on to play Hattori Hanzō, a retired swordsmith, and Gordon Liu as Pai Mei, an ancient martial arts master. Of the two, it was Pai Mei who took part in a fantastic Kill Bill scene that deserves to be seen on the big screen again.
It was Pai Mei who trained Bill when he was younger. However, the best scene in this movie with Pai Mei was the fight with the Bride and the training montage as he taught her the three-inch punch. This scene was straight out of a wuxia movie and included some of the same unreal moments, like Pai Mei leaping up and standing on the sword that the Bride had swung.
Playing Isaac Hayes' theme song from Three Tough Guys was only icing on the cake, as Tarantino mixed the incredible sparring scene with great music, proving he was still a master at the musical pin drops.
The Bride Vs. Bill
David Carradine as Bill talking to Uma Thurman as The Bride in Kill Bill
By the end of the movie, it was time for the Bride to come face to face with Bill. After all the fights leading up to this, it seemed impossible to see how Quentin Tarantino could match them without repeating things. However, what Tarantino did was unexpected and brilliant. The Bride and Bill sat down and talked about their issues like adults.
It was a brilliant discussion, which should come as no surprise from a script written by Quentin Tarantino. When Bill said he "overreacted" when he offered the hit on her wedding, the Bride said, "You...over...reacted?" It was brilliant and was just a setup for a fight that was more personal and final than any other.
The fight was a lot more low-key, from the chair-fu fight to the Five Point Palm punch that finally finished Bill off, it was a perfectly quiet ending to a movie that was as loud and violent as a Quentin Tarantino fan might expect.
The Bride Meets Her Daughter
Uma Thurman as the Bride holding her daughter in Kill Bill
Arguably, one of the best moments of the movie to see on the big screen when Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair hits theaters is when the Bride, whose name is Beatrix Kiddo, finally meets the daughter she never saw before. From the moment B.B. said "freeze, mommy," to the moment she asked if she ever dreamed of her, it was a tender moment that made it all worth it.
Kill Bill had a lot of violence, fight scenes, and wall-to-wall action, but none of it meant anything without the Bride getting her happy ending, and when she finally snuggled with her daughter and saw the life she never had before, it was a perfect end to a perfect movie.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Like Follow Followed Unrated Action Crime Thriller Release Date December 5, 2025 Runtime 281 Minutes Director Quentin Tarantino Writers Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman Producers Bob Weinstein, E. Bennett Walsh, Harvey Weinstein, Lawrence BenderCast
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