Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Trailer Teases Full Uncut Version Of Tarantino’s Action Blowout

Buckle up, cinephiles: 20 years after being released as Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, we’re now finally getting to see Kill Bill in the form Quentin Tarantino always originally wanted: The Whole Bloody Affair, merging both parts of the story into one rip-roaring rampage of revenge, with never-before-seen bits in the mix too. Earlier this year, we discovered that the uncut edition was finally getting a wide release (it has been screened in very rare instances at Tarantino’s own New Beverly Cinema in LA), and now we have a trailer. While we’ve seen Kill Bill plenty of times before, there are some interesting tidbits to pick up on… Watch it here:

So, yes, it’s Kill Bill. Uma Thurman lopping limbs as the Bride, David Carradine growling it up as Bill, half samurai homage, half dusty desert Western, all Quentin Tarantino. But as well as the promise of a new seven-minute segment in the anime chapter, there are some interesting things to note. First up, it looks like the eye-poppingly bloody House Of Blue Leaves sequence – the action climax of Vol. 1, in which the Bride battles the Crazy 88 – will be presented in full colour. In the original release, that sequence cut to black and white (at the moment Thurman literally plucks one poor guy’s eye out) to appease the ratings board, who wanted to slap on an NC-17 rating for the sheer gallons of blood. Notable, too, is that we see glimpses of the opening of Vol. 2, the black-and-white, fourth-wall-breaking, “I am gonna kill… Bill…” scene, which served as a reintroduction to the Bride’s quest when the film was split in two. How that factors into The Whole Bloody Affair remains to be seen.

The best news of all is, UK fans won’t have to book plane tickets to the US to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. It’s getting a confirmed UK release, hitting cinemas here on 5 December. Order your yellow tracksuits now, people.