The Hateful Eight is a typically violent movie by Quentin Tarantino, and even though the film has two survivors, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins) and Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), it's doubtful that they actually survived at all. The 2015 movie is a much smaller and more isolated release than the usual epics from the celebrated filmmaker, as it's mostly set in a haberdashery during a blizzard in the midst of the Civil War. Several bandits, bounty hunters, veterans, and other shady characters take refuge in the haberdashery, and it inevitably leads to absolute bloodshed with almost every character getting brutally murdered.
As is the case with most Tarantino-directed movies, The Hateful Eight is full of uncompromising violence, and over the course of its almost three-hour runtime, Tarantino flexes his penmanship by coming up with some memorable deaths. Daisy Domergue is hanged with a makeshift noose, O.B. Jackson is poisoned, and others are simply shot dead. However, the film ends with two survivors, as Marquis Warren and Chris Mannix lie in bed before the credits roll, bonding after they initially struggled to get along. But while that might be a heartwarming moment, they're barely alive and their survival is questionable.
Mannix & Warren Both Likely Died
When Mannix and Warren bond over the Lincoln Letter, they are in good spirits and relieved that they had killed the final member of the Domergue Gang. However, just as almost every Hateful Eight character dies, they likely weren't going to last for much longer either. Mannix had been shot with .32 pistol by Oswaldo Mobray, and the character had already fainted from blood loss once, luckily coming back into consciousness just in time to save Warren. Warren also wasn't in great shape in the final scene, as he had previously been shot in the groin by Jody Domergue and was quickly losing blood too.
If it isn't the blood loss that kills Mannix and Warren after the credits roll, it'd be the next giant obstacle they need to overcome; the blizzard outside the haberdashery. The blizzard is where The Hateful Eight's The Thing influence is most obvious, as the movie does a great job of portraying just how hazardous the storm is. And as there's no mode of transportation and any vigorous movement would surely be too painful for them, they wouldn't get very far before they keel over. Given that the haberdashery is in the middle of nowhere, they'd have to travel for hours before they finally find help too.
Warren Died In The Original Script
While the final result had two survivors of the haberdashery massacre, it was originally going to be a lot different and there was only one person left alive at the end of the screenplay. Tarantino changed The Hateful Eight's ending following the script getting leaked online, and he almost decided against making it at all. In the original ending, Warren gets killed by Jody. Instead of being shot in the groin, he is shot multiple times by the bandit and then shot by Daisy three more times between the eyes. That would have left Mannix as the lone survivor, if he did actually survive at all.
