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The Vampires are the main antagonists of the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. They are bloodthirsty undead creatures with a supernatural affinity for music. The vampire horde in the movie is led by a centuries-old Irish vampire named Remmick, who seeks to infect every party member of the juke joint recently opened by the twins Smoke and Stack in order to build his new vampiric family.
History[]
Prior to the events of the film, the origins of the vampire infection is unexplained. Remmick is implied to have been alive since the start of the 5th century, implying that the curse has existed since then, but anything outside of that is unknown.
In 1932, the sole vampire in Clarksdale, Mississippi is Remmick, who has managed to immigrate to America. Whilst in Clarksdale, Remmick is discovered by a group of Choctaw Native Americans, leading him to flee. As the sun sets, Remmick finds a married couple of Ku Klux Klan members named Bert and Joan, and asks for their protection. Unaware of his vampiric nature, the couple willingly hide Remmick from the Choctaw. However, once the sun fully sets, Remmick turns the couple into vampires, and sets out looking for victims.
Concurrent with Remmick's conversion of the couple, twin brothers and former mafia hitmen Smoke and Stack return to their hometown to use their money to buy a local sawmill from KKK head Hogwood in order to convert it into a Juke Joint for their friends and family. On their opening night, their cousin Sammie, an aspiring guitarist, plays music, unaware that he wields a gift to bridge past and future with his guitar-playing; the resulting melody attracts Remmick, Bert, and Joan to the Juke Joint.
The three initially attempt to get invited into the house by masquerading as traveling musicians, but are refused by the suspicious twins. However, as the night goes on, the Juke Joint starts losing money, and Stack's girlfriend Mary attempts to gather money from the trio. However, she is bitten by Remmick and turned into a vampire. After being invited in, Mary manipulates Stack into having sex with her, during which she bites and infects him. Smoke encounters this and shoots at Mary, who flees the Juke Joint. Meanwhile, Remmick turns the Juke Joint's bouncer Cornbread outside.
After Smoke closes down the Juke Joint and asks all the patrons to leave, Stack revives as a vampire and is also forced out, whilst all the patrons are converted. Smoke's wife Annie, a hoodoo practitioner, is able to identify the curse as vampirism, and prepares the group for the coming fight. Remmick then attempts to bargain with the remaining people inside the building, offering to leave in exchange for Sammie, whose musical abilities he intends to use to reunite with his long since passed family. He, alongside Mary and Stack, also offer promises of freedom and immortality, warning that Hogwood intends to attack the Juke Joint at daybreak.
When the group refuse, Bo Chow, a local shopkeeper and friend of the brothers who has been turned into a vampire, threatens his wife Grace to turn their daughter; Grace in turn willingly invites the vampires in. During the fight, the remaining survivors are able to temporarily repel most of the vampires, though all but Sammie and Smoke are turned. At the fight's end, Remmick and the vampires confront Sammie outside the Juke Joint, only for him and Smoke to impale Remmick on a cross just as the sun rises, killing all of the vampires save for Mary and Stack.
Decades later, Mary and Stack meet with an elderly Sammie to offer to turn him into a vampire. Sammie refuses, but agrees with Stack that the day prior to the vampire invasion was the best day of their respective lives before parting ways.
Description[]
Infection[]
Vampirism is transmitted through the bite of another vampire onto a human, tipically while feeding on them. The don't necessarily target the neck, as any area of the body that is bitten will infect the person, although it does appear to be a common bite location as it's a quick way to kill their victim and transform them. Unlike traditional vampires, everyone bitten by a vampire is transformed, with no one in the movie simply being killed and devoured by the vampires.
Appearance[]
Vampires remain seemingly unchanged after being turned and are practically impossible to identify until they reveal their more monstrous appearance, consisting of eyes that shine in the dark and wickedly sharp fangs. Their fangs can also multiplicate even more, shapeshifting into a stretched mouth full of sharp teeth as Cornbread shows. Remmick also can turn his seemingly normal fingernails into long razor-sharp claws, albeit he is the only one shown to possess this ability. Their bodies also do not age, as Stack and Mary appear in the 1990's identically to how they looked in 1932.
Behavior[]
The vampires act as a hive mind, with the horde in the movie under the influence and control of Remmick. The vampires share a telepathic connection that allows them to know the memories, desires, emotions and sensations of the other, seen in Remmick learning to speak Chinese after infecting Bo Chow. Annie explains that the curse traps a person's soul in their own body, leaving them unable to move on to the afterlife, forever stuck on Earth until they are destroyed. As a result, a vampire retains most of their personality and memories, but they are much more malevolent, predatory and bloodthirsty versions of their former selves, seemingly devoid of all empathy for those who are not of their own kind. Their desire to infect people appears to be primal and animalistic, as Remmick and Mary are seen to drool before biting at people. Vampires also possess a supernatural affinity and connection with music, as Sammie's raw, magical talent attracted Remmick to the Juke Joint. Furthermore, they can also be found casually singing, dancing and partying amongst themselves.
Strengths & Weaknesses[]
Powers[]
- Immortality: Vampires can live forever unless killed, never aging ever since they turn. Remmick is implied to have lived ever since the times when Christianity was first introduced to Ireland in the fifth century, which is around 431 AD.
- Fangs and Claws: Vampires possesses wickedly sharp claws and fangs used to feed on their victims. Their mouth presumably can stretch and reveal even more fangs as Cornbread did.
- Hive Mind: Vampires possess telepathic connection amongst their kind, functioning as a sort of hive mind. They share every memory, desire, emotion and sensation they experience.
- Supernatural Durability and Healing: Although vampires don't seem to heal an an extremely accelerated rate, their regenerative ability, physical resistance and survivability are still far above normal human beings. They are also seemingly unbothered by their wounds, no matter how gruesome these are. On Remmick's first appearance, his skin has been burned by the sun, but later that night his wounds have fully healed. He also 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. Stack was also healing from Mary's bite and garlic burns in just a couple of hours.
- Supernatural Senses: Vampires have a hightened sense of smell given that Stack was able to detect that Sammie had not much time left. They also presumably have enhanced hearing and vision, the later given their reflective eyeshine.
- Levitation: Remmick can leap across large distances and presumably levitate or fly to some degree.
Weaknesses[]
- Invitation: Vampires cannot enter any property without being explicitly invited by the owner or a human who is already inside. If they get out however, they need to be invited in again, as Mary wasn't able to re-enter the juke joint after being invited by Cornbread and then fleeing.
- Garlic: Vampire flesh is burned by garlic, as Annie used pickled garlic juice to repel a recently turned Stack.
- Wooden Stakes: Vampires will die if a wooden stake is driven through their heart.
- Sunlight: Vampires will quickly combust under the rays of the sun, disintegrating them completely.
- Silver & Holy Water: Annie mentions that vampires are also weak to silver and holy water, and later Sammie used the silver disk that decorated his guitar to severely injure Remmick.
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Trivia[]
- A unique trait of the Vampires in Sinners is that they possess glowing eyes when infected, which Ryan Coogler, the film's director, has stated in interviews that Remmick's eyes were inspired by the depiction of Death in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, who has glowing red eyes.
- Like in many depictions of vampires, the glow in the eyes of the vampires in Sinners is likely caused by tapetum lucidum, a trait present in the eyes of various animals that reflect the light and gives them better vision in the dark.
- It is widely believed that the vampires in the movie are a metaphor for cultural appropriation, as Remmick infects the African-American patrons of the Juke Joint, and forces them to dance to his own Irish music, whilst placing them in a hive mind where they all act similarly.
- It is unknown if the vampires must drink blood in order to survive, or if they simply choose to infect people.
- Since Remmick is hunted by Choctaws, it is possible that there are vampire hunters out there hunting down vampires across the country.
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