Vampires Attack In ‘Sinners’ — But Christian Colonialism Strikes Harder

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has been crushing the box office since its April 18 release, and it deserves the attention.

On the surface, it’s a tightly built horror film: Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers Smoke and Stack, fighting to open a juke joint in Jim Crow-era Mississippi—until vampires tear the night apart. But beneath the blood and chaos, Sinners hits hard at a deeper target: cultural erasure through European Christian colonialism.

The vampires aren’t hunting blood; they’re hunting belonging. Remmick, the first to arrive, comes from Ireland, drawn to Sammie’s music—a power that stitches listeners to the lives of their ancestors and descendants. Only Annie, played with fierce clarity by Wunmi Mosaku, sees the real threat. She’s kept her ancestral knowledge alive—and she’s the only one who knows how to survive.

In a brutal showdown, Sammie turns to Christian prayer, reaching for the only protection he’s ever been taught. But Remmick, in one devastating speech, reveals he once prayed the same words before colonization stripped his people of their past. Now, cursed with immortality, he’s trapped between worlds he can never truly belong to.

The real monster in Sinners isn’t a creature with fangs—it’s the force that severs people from their own history.

Sinners is already going down in horror history. This is not one to miss. Catch it on the big screen while it’s still in theaters!