🎬 Sinners-VAMPIRE JIG ENERGY

Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

Yeah, unfortunately, I don’t know what Warner Brothers was thinking when they decided to just… spoil the whole dang movie in that final trailer. Like, hey—what if instead of teasing the vibe, we just tell y’all that Stack becomes a vampire? And Mary? She’s a vampire too! Surprise! Except not, because you just showed us!

I mean, why? I get wanting to pull in the vampire crowd, but this wasn’t really even a vampire flick until like the back half. More on that later.

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🎤 The Setup: Juke Joints, Grief, and That Tongue Line

So what’s this movie even about? Well… okay. Take a breath.

We follow twin gangsters named Stack and Smoke—both played by Michael B. Jordan, because yes, we are doubling up on Jordan and honestly? He pulls it off.

Stack and Smoke used to run with Al Capone but decide to come back to the Jim Crow South in the 1930s, which already tells you: oh boy, this ain’t gonna be light. There’s heavy racism baked into everything. Like, actual structured segregation—Black folks stay in this area, white folks over there, Native folks got their own spot. And into that mess, these two show up trying to open a juke joint.

Yeah. They buy this barn from a shady white farmer—who we will circle back to later, trust me—and they plan to convert it into a place where Black folks can come to dance, drink, sing, perform, breathe. Just… live.

They grab their cousin Sammi, who’s working on a plantation and wants to be a rhythm and blues singer. They bring in Smoke’s partner Annie, who’s a voodoo specialist and also grieving the loss of their baby. Stack and Sammi recruit an Asian family to help with food and signage. Then they hunt down Delta Slim, played by Delroy freaking Lindo, and bribe him into performing for forty bucks and some Irish beer. Classy.

Also, Cornbread. Their bouncer. Works in a cornfield. His name is Cornbread. I had to pause when they introduced him because I thought they were joking. They were not.

And then there’s Mary—Stack’s ex—played by Hailee Steinfeld, who straight-up tells him, “You left me the next day after having your tongue in my—”
Yeah. I’m not writing the rest of that. You can imagine. But it was a moment.

So, all the pieces are set for this one epic night. It’s got the makings of something big—grief, community, rhythm, redemption—and the dudes kinda nailed the outsourcing game. Food? Delegated. Music? Delegated. Even signage? Delegated.

Say what you want, but they had supply chain figured out in 1932.

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🧛 The Shift: Vampires. With Banjos.

Just when you think this movie’s about music and healing and emotional growth and maybe getting a slow-dance kiss under the stars—we go full supernatural.

There’s these three vampires, right? Led by a guy who looks like he was rejected from True Blood for being too intense. He shows up at some random couple’s door, acting all panicked, like, “Please help me, the Native Americans are chasing me!”

So the couple lets him in.

Because apparently everyone in this movie has never heard of vampire rules.
Yes, they invite him in.
Yes, that means he now owns the house.
And yes, he turns them both into vampires like 30 seconds later.

Meanwhile, the Native American vampire hunters? They show up. Look around. And leave. We never see them again. What was the point? I have no idea. Maybe there’s a spin-off called Navajo Night Watchers or something. I would watch that, but still—where did they go?!

Anyway. Fast forward to the juke joint party. Things are poppin’. Sammi’s playing. Delta Slim’s actually feeling it. People are dancing. Food’s being eaten. Community is happening.

And then?

The vampires walk in. With banjos.
Like this is normal.

Not a joke. Not a metaphor.
BANJO-PLAYING VAMPIRES walk into this juke joint and ask to perform.

I was so stunned I actually rewound the scene just to make sure I didn’t hallucinate it.
I didn’t.

And that’s when the whole movie spirals.

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💃 The Cult of the Jig. What Even.

You know what else happens?

The vampires—now joined by a bunch of other newly turned people—form a circle. They start singing. And then the vampire leader steps into the middle and starts doing…

…an Irish jig.

Flaming. Irish. Jig.

To a song I recognized from the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie. I wish I was lying. I wish I could forget it. But it’s in my brain now like a cursed memory.

🔗 Here. Suffer like I did.

This isn’t a metaphor.
There’s no commentary here.
It’s just: banjos, cult chanting, and a white vampire in the middle of a fire circle doing step dance while staring directly into the camera like he’s casting a spell on your soul.

I don’t know what genre this is anymore. There’s music. There’s blood. There’s jigging.
I think my brain short-circuited.

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⚠️ Stuff I Probably Should’ve Warned Y’all About

Should’ve said this sooner, but uh:

• This movie is horny.
• It’s also gory.
• And the N-word? Constant. Loud. Uncensored.

This ain’t one of those “vampire but make it sexy” flicks.
This is “vampire but also you need therapy now” energy.

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🔥 The Hive-Mind Bloodbath

Okay. Deep breath. Here comes the third act.

So Mary gets turned. Then she and Stack get real cozy and… there’s drool. Like, excessive drool. I don’t want to talk about it.

Meanwhile, the vampires try to break into a house by threatening a woman’s daughter. The gang’s fighting back with stakes, shotguns, pitchfork energy.

Delta Slim—absolute legend—cuts his wrist to draw them away and sacrifices himself.

Sammi’s new girl gets bitten.

Smoke ends up fighting Stack—who’s now full vamp mode—in a showdown that’s giving “I love you bro but also I gotta stab you through the heart” energy.

Then the vampire leader dunks Sammi into a lake and tries to turn him. Tells him something like:

“Out here, people hate you. With us, you’ll never feel pain again.”

Which… okay, that’s kind of deep. Still not joining the vampire cult though, sir.

Smoke shows up—stabs the vampire leader.
Boom. Sunlight hits.
Everyone catches fire.
One of the vampires does a full-on flame tornado swirl like it’s Mortal Kombat: Vampire Edition.
And just like that—it’s over.

Or is it?

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🪩 Disco Vampires and The End(?) That Keeps Going

So now it’s years later. Sammi’s an old man, scarred up, running a blues club.

And then Stack and Mary show up.
Still vampires. Still alive. In bellbottoms.

Apparently when the leader died, the “everyone dies” rule just… didn’t apply to them.

Oh, I see. So now we just make up plot rules as we go? Cool. Love that. Totally fine.

Stack says Smoke couldn’t kill him. So he made Stack promise to never hurt Sammi.

They ask for one last song. Sammi plays it. They tip him. Walk out.

Sammi asks:

“That night, before you turned… was that your best night ever?”

Stack says:

“Yeah. It was.
Because it was the last time I saw my brother.
And the last time I stood in the sun.”

Yeah. Okay, Coogler. Now you wanna rip my heart out?
I’m crying. No, you’re crying.

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🎯 Final Thoughts

This movie made me feel like I took the scenic route through four different genres and then got hit in the face with a flaming banjo.

It’s a lot.
There’s joy and trauma and grief and horror and bad sex and worse dancing and so much blood and also Michael B. Jordan twice.

I don’t even know if I liked it or hated it.
But I can tell you this:

I’ll never forget it.

Final Score: 6/10
Would recommend.
Once. With a drink.
Preferably while holding garlic.