Sinners (2025 movie)
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| Directed by | Ryan Coogler |
| Written by | Ryan Coogler |
| Produced by | Ryan Coogler Zinzi Coogler Sev Ohanian |
| Starring | Michael B. Jordan Hailee Steinfeld Miles Caton Jack O'Connell Wunmi Mosaku Jayme Lawson Omar Benson Miller Li Jun Li Delroy Lindo |
| Cinematography | Autumn Durald Arkapaw |
| Edited by | Michael P. Shawver |
| Music by | Ludwig Göransson |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 138 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Box office | $303.5 million[1][2] |
Sinners is an American supernatural horror movie directed, written, and co-produced by Ryan Coogler.[3] It was released on April 18, 2025 in North America.[4] The movie follows twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, who return to their hometown after their lives become difficult. Sinners has vampires in it, and is set in the Southern United States during the Jim Crow-era.[5]
Principal photography for the movie started in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 13, 2024 and ended on July 17, 2024.[6][7]
Plot
[change | change source]Elijah "Smoke" and Elias "Stack" Moore are identical twins who fought in World War I. After the war, they worked for the Chicago Outfit, a crime group. In 1932, they return home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, using stolen money to buy a sawmill from a racist man named Hogwood. They turn it into a juke joint for the Black community.
Their cousin Sammie, a blues singer and guitar player, joins them. More people help with the juke joint: Smoke's wife Annie cooks; a Chinese couple, Grace and Bo Chow, provide supplies; and a field worker named Cornbread guards the door. Stack's ex-girlfriend, Mary, and musicians Delta Slim and Pearline (whom Sammie likes) also join.
Meanwhile, an Irish vampire named Remmick is being hunted by a group of Choctaw people. He escapes and turns a married Klansmen couple into vampires.
On opening night, Sammie's music calls spirits from the past and future. Remmick and his vampires ask to come in, offering money and music, but the twins refuse. After losing Mary, Cornbread, and Stack, Annie guesses they are vampires. She explains the vampire rules: they cannot enter buildings without being invited, cannot be cured, and can only be killed by sunlight, silver, or wooden stakes.
Remmick still cannot enter, and offers to leave if they give him Sammie. He wants to use Sammie's music to reach his ancestors from Ireland. He also warns that Hogwood and the Klan plan to attack the juke at dawn. When Remmick threatens to harm the Chows' daughter, Lisa, Grace invites him inside.
Only Sammie and Smoke survive the attack. Sammie hits Remmick with his silver guitar, hurting him. Smoke arrives and kills Remmick with a wooden stake. When the sun rises, the other vampires burn and die.
Smoke sends Sammie away, then kills Hogwood and his men, but is shot and dies. As he dies, he sees a vision of Annie and their daughter, joining them in the afterlife. Sammie, despite his father's wish for him to give up music and follow God, goes to Chicago and becomes a blues musician.
Sixty years later, an old Sammie finishes a performance at his local blues club. Stack and Mary, who turn out to still be alive and have not aged, visit him. Stack says Smoke let him live because he promised not to hurt Sammie. He offers to turn Sammie into a vampire, but Sammie refuses. He plays them one last song. As they leave, Sammie says that before the violence, that night was the best day of his life. Stack agrees, saying it was the last time he saw Smoke or the sun, and the only time he truly felt free.
Cast
[change | change source]- Michael B. Jordan as Smoke / Stack
- Hailee Steinfeld as Mary
- Miles Caton as Sammie Moore
- Jack O'Connell as Remmick
- Wunmi Mosaku as Annie
- Jayme Lawson as Pearline
- Omar Miller as Cornbread
- Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim
- Li Jun Li as Grace Chow
- Peter Dreimanis as Bert
- Lola Kirke as Joan
- Saul Williams as Jedidiah Moore
- Yao as Bo Chow
- David Maldonado as Hogwood
- Helena Hu as Lisa Chow
- Andrene Ward-Hammond as Ruthie
- Nathaniel Arcand as Chayton
- Emonie Ellison as Therise
- Tenaj L. Jackson as Beatrice
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Sinners (2025) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on May 2, 2025. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
- ↑ "Sinners". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on May 1, 2025. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
- ↑ Vejvoda, Jim (January 28, 2025). "Sinners Director Ryan Coogler Reveals the Surprising Influences Behind His First Stab at Horror". IGN. Archived from the original on January 28, 2025. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
- ↑ Gomez, Dessi (January 28, 2025). "Ryan Coogler Teases 'Sinners' Themes And Supernatural Elements Beyond Vampires In His "Personal Love Letter" To Cinema". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 28, 2025. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
- ↑ Kit, Borys (January 28, 2025). "Ryan Coogler Talks 'Sinners' Secrets As He Unveils New Trailer". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 28, 2025. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
- ↑ Tinoco, Armando (April 14, 2024). "Ryan Coogler's New Thriller Starring Michael B. Jordan Starts Filming". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 15, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ↑ "Production Weekly – Issue 1394 – Thursday, March 21, 2024 / 184 Listings – 43 Pages". Production Weekly. Retrieved February 28, 2025.