Quentin Tarantino opens up about how Death Proof bombing damaged his confidence. The 2007 film, which is more of minor work in the auteur's illustrious filmography, stars Kurt Russell as a sadistic stuntman who murders young women with his modified car which he purports to be "death proof," but only if you're sitting in the driver's seat that is. Death Proof underperformed at the box office by grossing only $31 million and barely making back its $30 million budget, which in the eyes of Tarantino and many others, was a failure.

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