Sinners ending explained plus how the post-credits scene sets up a sequel
Sinners is a new movie that combines horror and western with some amazing blues music, and it ends in truly spectacular fashion.
Written and directed by Ryan Coogler – and inspired by his own family history – genre mash-up Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as twins Smoke and Stack, who return to their hometown in Mississippi in 1932 with plans to launch a juke joint.
They purchase a barn from a local Klansman, recruit their brilliant young cousin Sammy (Miles Caton) to play guitar, and opening night is a raging success.
That’s until a stranger called Remmick (Jack O’Connell) arrives at their door, which is when the horror hits, and the twins’ dream quickly turns into a bloody nightmare. SPOILERS ahead…
Who lives and who dies in Sinners
That nightmare is due to Remmick being a vampire, who has plans to turn everyone in the bar over the course of the night.
This enables the film to tackle themes of race, with Remmick claiming that Smoke and Stack will have more freedom in the afterlife. While the story also touches on cultural appropriation, with white man Remmick hoping to absorb the musical talent of the Black community when he bites them.
Predictably, the film ends in a bloodbath, with Smoke, Stack, and their cohorts using the traditional weapons of garlic and stakes through the heart to fight back.
But there are casualties during the battle, with Stack’s ex-girlfriend Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) being turned, and Smoke having to kill ex-partner Annie (Wunmi Mosaku) to prevent her from going the same way. He also appears to kill Stack when he becomes a vampire, though it’s Sammy who ultimately takes out Remmick, using the guitar that first attracted the attention of the undead.
Daylight kills the remaining vampires, meaning that both Smoke and Sammy survive the night. But while Sammie escapes with his life, Smoke decides to face the Klansmen who descend on the joint, massacring them, but dying during the battle.
It’s a happy ending for Smoke, however, as he has a vision of being reunited with Annie and the child they lost in the afterlife. At the very end of the movie, Sammy turns down his father’s plea to stop playing the blues.
Sinners mid-credits and post-credits scene explained
Warner Bros.Young Sammy playing guitar in Sinners.
Sinners then has a superb mid-credits scene, that takes place in 1992. Sammy – now played by blues legend Buddy Guy – is performing in a bar.
At the end of the night, he receives a visit from Stack and Mary, still young and beautiful, and now sporting some killer 1990s clothes.
Stack reveals that Smoke let him live, but made him promise to leave Sammy alone. He stayed true to that vow, until now, when Sammy is nearing the end of his life.
Warner Bros.Mary and Stack.
The couple offers to turn him so that Sammy can become immortal, but he says no, preferring to go out on his own terms.
Before they leave, all three agree that before all the bloodshed and death, that evening in the juke joint was the best night of their lives. Then Stack and Mary head out into the night, still very much alive – or rather undead – and available to continue the story in a sequel should Coogler and Jordan wish to make Sinners 2.
We also see a post-credits scene of young Sammy playing the song he arrives at church to (‘This Little Light of Mine’) on the guitar before any of the film’s events take place. The scene is also used as a flashback at multiple points throughout the movie.
Sinners is in cinemas now, while you can head here to find where it’s playing in IMAX 70mm, and here to find out where it will be streaming first. Also, check out our list of the best horror movies of all time, as well as out pick of new movies out this month.
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