“Sinners” is a 2025 horror film about twin brothers, Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore, World War I veterans and ex–Chicago gangsters, who return to 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi to go straight by opening a juke joint, only to find themselves fighting a coven of vampires and the violent racism of Jim Crow and the Klan. Its point is to use a vampire story to explore Black community, faith, and music under intersecting systems of oppression—how people try to reclaim dignity, belonging, and culture when both human and supernatural forces are trying to consume or erase them.wikipedia+4
Smoke and Stack use stolen mob money to buy a sawmill from white landowner Hogwood and turn it into a juke joint for the local Black community, bringing in their younger cousin Sammie, a gifted blues musician, and other locals as staff and performers.imdb+1
At the same time, an Irish immigrant vampire named Remmick arrives in the area, turning a white couple and then others into vampires; his path eventually converges on the juke joint, where he sees Sammie’s music as a power he wants to harness.wikipedia+1
On opening night, the joint thrives, but conflicts arise over money, respectability, and sin—Sammie’s preacher father condemns blues as corrupting, and Smoke’s practical skepticism clashes with the Hoodoo faith of his wife Annie.nytimes+2
Remmick and his followers first appear as paying customers, then reveal themselves as vampires, turning key characters including Stack’s former lover Mary, the bouncer Cornbread, and eventually Stack himself.imdb+1
The juke joint becomes a siege setting through the night as Smoke, Sammie, Annie, and the others try to hold out until dawn, using faith, folk magic, and improvised weapons against the vampires.nytimes+2
Many of the community are killed, and Smoke must stake Annie at her own pleading to spare her a cursed existence; at dawn, Smoke and Sammie finally manage to destroy Remmick and the remaining vampires with sunlight and a makeshift silver stake.wikipedia+1
Believing Hogwood and the local Klansmen will retaliate, Smoke ambushes them in a final gunfight, killing them but dying of his wounds; in death he is reunited in a vision with Annie and their lost child, framed as a dignified, almost martyr-like end.imdb+2
Sammie, bloodied and traumatized, rejects his father’s call to renounce the blues and instead leaves for Chicago, eventually becoming a celebrated blues musician; decades later in 1992, an elderly Sammie is visited by the still-young Stack and Mary, who offer to turn him, and he quietly refuses, choosing mortality over vampiric “salvation.”theemancipator+2
The film uses vampires as a metaphor for systems that feed on Black labor, art, and bodies—plantation scrip, the Klan, and supernatural predators all seek to own or drain the community, especially its music.reddit+3
Annie’s Hoodoo, the church, and the blues represent different strands of Black spiritual and cultural resilience; the story suggests that survival and dignity come from community, faith (broadly defined), and a refusal to surrender one’s art and humanity even when safety is promised in return.facebook+3
If you like, a next step could be to connect this to earlier “race horror” films (like “Candyman” or “Get Out”) and to classic vampire allegories.