Love him or hate him, there’s no doubt that Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaking legend with a truly impressive career. With only one more film to go until he reaches his infamous tenth “retirement picture,” Tarantino’s filmography includes classics that both casual viewers and cinephiles alike hold in high esteem. Besides maybe the Coen Brothers, no modern filmmaker has a larger cult following than Quentin Tarantino.

His foot fetish aside, QT is one of the most influential filmmakers of his day and has remarkably honored the past while propelling the industry into the future. From nostalgic crime pictures to revisionist history films, he’s done it all and continues to shock and awe audiences everywhere. Today, we’re ranking all of Quentin Tarantino’s directorial feature films from worst to best, starting with the underappreciated Death Proof.

9. Death Proof (2007)

If you’re looking for a bizarre thriller to watch this weekend, look no further than Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof. The second part of the double-feature Grindhouse – that also features Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror – this slasher follows aging stuntman Mike McKay (Kurt Russell, The Thing) as he preys on young girls in Austin, Texas, and Lebanon, Kansas with his apparently “death proof” stunt car.

Probably not anybody’s favorite Tarantino movie by any stretch (he’s even claimed it has to be the worst movie he’s ever made), Death Proof, and Grindhouse as a whole, pays tribute to the exploitation films of the 1970s that often included B-pictures to reel audiences into theaters based on working trends. This one is a bit rough around the edges, but Russell manages to deliver a charming performance and the final cchase scene is out of this world. 

Death Proof, as the second hour of Tarantino’s collaboration with Rodriguez, is something of a blast from the past, reminding us of a style of filmmaking that’s rarely seen these days.