Sinners is a new thrilling horror movie released into theaters April 18 that evokes fear within the audience by following the traumatic life of aspiring blues artist Sammie Moore, played by Miles Caton in his first live action film.
The star studded cast includes Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, Jack O’Connell and Michael Bakari (B.) Jordan. Jordan and the director Ryan Coogler have worked on many movies together in the past, Jordan has been cast in all of the Coogler directed films which include Fruitvale Station, the Creed series and the Black Panther series.
Jordan plays the role of two characters in the movie. They are known as the Smokestack twins, notorious for their involvement in gang warfare. The two characters are highly important to the film as they are followed throughout the whole film and they also have high symbolic significance in relation to the seven deadly sins which represent the main characters within the story.
The two twins come back to rural Mississippi in an attempt to start a juke which is similar to a club. They recruit Sammie away from his life as a preacher boy to be one of the stars of the club.
Not all was well though, as a group of three people entered the club, requesting to join Sammie and the twins in their singing and dancing. In actuality the three were vampires in disguise, they were looking to convert all of the people in the juke into vampires by biting them.
Smoke and Sammie managed to survive the night as all the vampires were burnt to death, seeing the two survive created heartfelt moments within a bittersweet ending.
In a plot twist during the mid credits scene it shows Stack and Mary, together as vampires are still alive. They meet with Sammie who is much older now and they reflect on the chaotic night all those years ago. This leaves room for further content in the same timeline as Sinners.
Sinners has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes which is a highly respected film rating company, it also is rated over eight out of ten on Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Sinners is sure to be a movie that is in contention for many awards in the near future.
