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| “ | I am your way out. | „ |
| ~ Remmick's most famous quote. |
| “ | You will taste the sweet pain of death. We will make beautiful music, together. | „ |
| ~ Remmick to Sammie Moore, before Smoke stabs him in the back and dies from sunlight, also his last words before his death. |
Remmick is the main antagonist of the 2025 period action horror film Sinners.
He was a centuries-old Irish vampire who, driven by profound loneliness and the loss of his ancestral community, seeked to rebuild a surrogate vampire family through blood and music; he specifically targeted musician Sammie Moore, and was attracted by his transcendental music, seeking to use it to conjure the spirits of his ancestors.
He was portrayed by Jack O'Connell, who also played Brett in Eden Lake and James Cook in Skins.
Personality[]
Remmick is a mass-murdering demonic vampire who has menaced humanity for centuries and enjoys terrorizing women. He's also desperately lonely and longs to see his deceased family again. Remmick is very manipulative; as vampires cannot be permitted to enter a room or a home unless they are explicitly invited in, he tries to trick and deceive his targets, succeeding time and again to various degrees. When traditional tricks don't work, he becomes very confrontational, evidenced when he threatens to convert Grace's daughter Lisa into a vampire to lure her out.
As part of his troupe, Remmick is committed to racial equality among vampires. Remmick has a disdain for the Ku Klux Klan, not just because they are racist, but as they historically targeted Irish immigrants and discriminated against them in the 1920s and 1930s. For this, he does not have reservations with informing Smoke that Hogwood, the Grand Dragon of the local KKK chapter, is planning to murder everyone at Smoke's juke joint the next morning.
Biography[]
Past[]
Many centuries ago (presumably before the 5th century as it was before the arrival of Christianity), Remmick was a vampire who was part of a community in Ireland. Following the spread of the monotheistic religion and the theft of their lands, Remmick's community's and its traditions disappeared, and he spent many centuries afterwards trying to create a new community, turning people into monsters like him to achieve that goal.
1911[]
Due to unknown reasons, the wreckage of the Celtic Hare, a ship carrying Irish immigrants, was discovered on a dock in Boston with no survivors except for Remmick, who was seen fleeing the scene by a lone woman.
1932[]
21 years later, Remmick was persecuted by the local Choctaw community and ran into a house where Joan and Bert, a couple involved in the local KKK chapter, resided; desperate to escape the hunters and hide from the rising sun he already suffered severe burns from, he manipulated them into letting him hide with them. The Native Americans tried to warn the couple of Remmick’s true nature but they ignored them. After the sun sets, Remmick murders the couple and turns them into vampires.
He, alongside Joan and Bert, arrive at the Mississippi Delta where the twin brothers Smoke and Stack had recently opened a juke joint in an effort to earn some money and support their community. Whilst outside, Remmick is attracted to the brothers' cousin Sammie Moore, a musician who has the power to attract spirits from both past and future using his music.
Offering money and music for entry, Remmick and the couple are denied an invitation by the suspicious twins. Reminding the twins that the bar needs the income, Mary, Stack's lover, meets Remmick outside where he subtly reveals his true age by handing her gold coins and turns her into another vampire. She returns inside, where she seduces Stack and bites him. Smoke shoots her, but she is unharmed by regular bullets and escapes. Cornbread, a friend of the twins, is attacked by Remmick and turned as well.
As the juke joint empties, Remmick and his vampires ambush and turn the departing patrons, including Bo. Stack is revived as a vampire but Annie repels him with pickled garlic juice, forcing him to flee the joint. She then instructs the survivors: only silver or wooden stakes can kill vampires, and they cannot enter a building unless invited. As the survivors prepare themselves for an attack, Remmick and the vampires start singing Irish music and dancing to the tune. Remmick attempts to negotiate, praising Sammie's supernatural talent, claiming that vampirism offers immortality, freedom, and escape from racism, which he offers in exchange for Sammie using his skills to summon the spirits of Remmick's lost community. He also warns that Hogwood, who is secretly the Grand Dragon of the local Klan, plans to attack them at dawn. When the survivors refuse his offer, Remmick and Bo confront Grace, threatening to attack her daughter. In a desperate act of anger, Grace invites them into the juke joint, allowing them in. In the ensuing battle, Grace, Annie, and Delta Slim are killed. Mary is devastated by Annie's death and flees the bar.
Smoke and Pearline help Sammie escape the jukebox joint, with the latter dying in the process, but Remmick catches up to him. In a final confrontation, Sammie smashes his guitar over Remmick's head, before Smoke arrives just in time to kill him with a stake. As the sun rises, the vampire horde is incinerated, including Remmick himself who ends up engulfed in a tornado of flames. Despite his demise, Remmick’s warning about Hogwood turns out correct as the latter and the Klan come the next day to murder the Twins and the guests, which urges Smoke to send off Sammie to another place, with the latter confronting his own father and deciding to build his life as a musician.
Strengths & Weaknesses[]
Powers[]
- Immortality: Remmick is implied to have lived ever since the times when Christianity was first introduced to Ireland.
- Fangs and Claws: As a vampire, Remmick possesses long razor sharp claws and fangs used to feed on his victims. His mouth presumably can stretch and reveal even more fangs.
- Hive Mind: Remmick has a telepathic connection with all the vampires he has turned, functioning as a sort of hive mind. He shares all the memories, desires, emotions and sensations of him and his victims.
- Supernatural Durability & Healing: Although vampires don't seem to heal an an extremely accelerated rate, they still had unnatural physical resistance and survivability far above a normal human being. Remmick survived a large silver disk from Sammie's guitar being embedded deep in his skull and probably would have healed over time if he hadn't died.
- Levitation: Remmick can leap across large distances and presumably levitate or fly to some degree.
- Vampirism: Remmick can turn humans into vampires by infecting them through a bite.
Abilities[]
- Expert Musician: Remmick is a talented singer, musician and dancer of Irish folk music. He is very skilled playing the banjo throughout the movie.
- Master Manipulator: Remmick is incredibly charismatic and persuasive, able to effortlessly blend in and pass up for a human. He was able to trick Joan and Bert into inviting him into their home by feigning distress and appealing to their racist views after spotting their KKK robes inside their house, offering them gold knowing their would likely want to take part of what he claimed the Choctaw had stolen from him.
Weaknesses[]
- Invitation: Vampires cannot enter any property without being explicitly invited by the owner or someone already inside.
- Garlic: Vampire flesh is burned by garlic.
- Wooden Stakes: Remmick would have likely still died after Smoke drove a wooden stake through his heart even if the sun hadn't risen on him.
- Sunlight: Remmick survived under the rays of the sun longer than the rest of his pack, but like them, he ultimately burned nonetheless.
- Silver: Annie mentions that vampires are weak to silver, and later Sammie used the silver disk that decorated his guitar to severely injure Remmick.
List of Victims[]
- Joan & Bert
- Mary
- Elias Moore (aka Stack)
- Bo Chow
- Cornbread
- Pearline
- Multiple unnamed sharecroppers and plantation workers
- Unknown number of unnamed victims before the events of Sinners.
Quotes[]
| “ | Oh don't worry, he's just sleepin'. | „ |
| ~ Remmick after Joan walks in on him feeding on Bert. |
| “ | Don't cry. He's all better now. | „ |
| ~ Remmick after turning Bert. |
| “ | Smoke: Y'all Klan? Remmick: Sir! Now, we believe in equality and music, and we just came here to play, spend some money, have a good time… |
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| ~ Remmick expressing his disgust towards racism. |
| “ | Is that Cornbread? Hey. Fellowship and love. Hey Cornbread… peek-a-boo! | „ |
| ~ Remmick before attacking Cornbread. |
| “ | This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build. Won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever. | „ |
| ~ Remmick trying to manipulate Smoke. |
| “ | ♪ One, two, three, four, five ♪ ♪ Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road ♪ ♪ And all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-lol-le-dah! ♪ ♪ From there I got away, me spirits never failin' ♪ ♪ Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailin' ♪ ♪ Captain at me roared, said that no room had he ♪ ♪ When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy ♪ ♪ Down among the pigs, played some funny rigs ♪ ♪ Danced some hearty jigs, the water 'round me bubblin' ♪ ♪ When off to Holyhead,wished me-self was dead ♪ ♪ Or better far instead, on the rocky road to Dublin ♪ |
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| ~ Remmick singing "Rocky Road to Dublin". |
| “ | SAMMIE! | „ |
| ~ Remmick as he attacks Sammie. |
| “ | Long ago, the men who stole my father's land forced these words upon us. I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort. Those men lied to themselves, then lied to us. They told stories of a God above and a devil below, and lies of a dominion of man over beast and Earth. We are Earth and beast of God. We are woman and man. We are connected, you and I, to everything. | „ |
| ~ Remmick explaining his backstory to Sammie after reciting the Lord's Prayer. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- One of Remmick's glaring characteristics as a vampire is his red eyes. According to Sinners director Ryan Coogler, this was directly inspired by The Wolf/Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
- Remmick's origins as to how he got to America, as revealed via a Spotify Easter Egg, shares a lot of similarities with a chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, where Dracula arrives to England on a ship known as the Demeter.
- Beyond being centuries older than the rest of his troupe, Remmick appears to biologically differ from the rest of the vampires; he is shown to have longer claws, be able to fly, and is killed by vanishing into a flame tornado. In contrast, the other vampires lack claws, are not shown to fly, and simply burn upon witnessing the sun.
External Links[]
- Remmick on the Sinners Wiki
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