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Sinners is a 2025 American horror film about twin brothers who return to their hometown to start again, only to be confronted by a supernatural evil.

Directed and written by Ryan Coogler.
Dance with the devil. taglines

Smoke

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  • I been all over this world. In cars. Ships. Trains. I seen men die in ways I didn't even know was possible. But I ain't never saw no roots, no demons… no ghosts, no magic. Just power. And only money can get you that.
  • [after shooting a looter and seeing the other trying to escape] FUCK you goin', nigga?! Bet this bullet'll beat you there!
  • Listen here, this ain't no house party.

Stack

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  • Y'all ready to eat? Y'all ready to drink? Y'all ready to sweat till y'all stank?
  • We 'bout to get it poppin' like fish grease, boy!

Mary

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  • [to Stack] So you rob trains and banks but you can't steal this pussy for a night?
  • Ooh, we gonna kill every last one of you.
  • Take care, little Sammie.

Sammie

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  • I been workin' all week, Pop. Wanna be free of all this fo' a day.
  • [to Pearline] You're beautiful... I just wanna taste you.

Annie

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  • [opening narration] There are legends of people... born with the gift of makin' music so true... it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjurin' spirits from the past and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they call them Firekeepers. And in West Africa... they're called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities... but it also attracts evil.
  • These ain't haints. They vampires.

Remmick

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  • Oh, we heard tale of a party.
  • [repeated line] SAMMIEEEE.
  • This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build. Won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever. I can save you from your fate. I am your way out.

Other

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  • Jedediah: You keep dancing with the devil, one day he's gonna follow you home.
  • Delta Slim: See, white folks, they like the blues just fine. They just don't like the people who make it.
  • Grace: Come on in, you motherfuckers!

Dialogue

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Hogwood: [seeing Smoke and Stack for the first time] You boys twins?
Stack: [sarcastically] Naw, we cousins.
Sammie: So, tell me about Chicago. I heard they ain't got Jim Crow up there. Black man can go where he wants.
Smoke: Listen, boy, you can't be believin' everythin' that you hear. Town'll fill yo' head up with this make-believe, but me and yo' cousin? We gon' give it to you straight. Chicago ain't shit but Mississippi with tall buildings instead of plantations.
Stack: And that's why we came back home: Figured we might as well deal with the devil we know.
Smoke: Shit. Cracka showin' up late already got us behind schedule. I'm thinkin' we just set up tonight; open up next weekend.
Stack: Nah, fuck that. It's gotta be tonight. Grand openin', start this shit with a bang.
Smoke: Or we start with a misfire.
Stack: Look at that sky. That's a mighty fine day to be free, ain't it? Our own juke joint. Fo' us and by us, just like we always wanted.
Smoke: Only chance we got if we split up. Well, who gon' watch the truck while I'm in there talkin' to the Chows?
Stack: Nigga, just let 'em see it's you!
Smoke: We been gon' a long time, Stack.
Stack: Seven years ain't long enough to forget about us.
Smoke: Where you from?
Little Girl: Shelby.
Smoke: You heard of the Smokestack Twins?
Little Girl: Of course.
Smoke: Good. I'm Smoke. [the little girl cautiously backs away.] No no no no, now. You not in no trouble; see, I'm tryin' to put some money in yo' pocket. See, I'mma need you to come sit in this truck right here. And if somebody come and look a little too long, I want you to lean on this horn, alright? Can you do that fo' me? [the little girl nods] Can you tell time? [the little girl nods again] Now, I'mma pay you 10¢ for every minute that I'm gone. Will that work for you?
Little Girl: [nodding while smiling] Yes, sir.
Smoke: [shakes his head] No, ma'am... See, we talkin' numbers, now. And numbers always gotta be in conversation with each other, you understand? You gotta negotiate. Now, 10¢ just won't work for you. Talk another number back to me.
Little Girl: Fiddy cent.
Smoke: 20¢. Best I can do. We got a deal? [the little girl gleefully nods]
Sammie: I've seen you somewhere before.
Pearline: Maybe.
Sammie: You sing, don'tcha?
Pearline: Time to time.
Sammie: Mmm-hmm. I'm Preacherboy. [offers his hand as she shakes it]
Pearline: Pearline...
Sammie: Pearline... hmm...
Pearline: I'm married, by the way.
Sammie: ... Happily?
Pearline: Careful, boy... you gon' bite off more than you can chew. [slowly walks away]
Sammie Moore: I don't think you should be here. See, I'm with the twins.
Mary: With the twins? Boy, if you don't get the fuck outta my face.
Mary: So, you play that guitar they left you?
Sammie: Yeah.
Mary: That's good. You makin' any money with that thing?
Sammie: Not really. Not yet, at least.
Mary: I'd tell ya it didn't matter as long as you love it, but that'd be horseshit advice.
Mary: You know, I waited for you.
Stack: Shit, I don't know why in the hell you gon' do that.
Mary: Because you told me you loved me.
Stack: Well, I told you to stay the fuck away from me, too, but I guess you didn't hear that part, huh?
Mary: Ohh, I heard you. I heard you loud and clear, but then you stuck your tongue in my cooze and fucked me so hard, I figured you changed your mind.
Stack: Keep your voice down now.
Stack: The hell are you doin' back here, Mary?
Mary: I buried my mama yesterday, Stack. Figured I'd might see you and Smoke there, as much as she looked after you both. But I guess y'all love lasted as long as y'all could get somethin' out of her.
Stack: You right. That's all she was: Food, a warm bed.
Mary: Rot in Hell, Stack! [walks away]
Stack: Shit, I will. [as she walks away] And save yo' triflin' ass a room! Shit, right next to me... shit...
[Stack is attempting to throw Mary out of the juke joint]
Mary: Get yo' hands off me.
Stack: What's it gon' take, hmm? How much to getchu to get the fuck on?
Mary: You can't pay me off.
Stack: Fine... I'll pay one of these field bitches in here to drag yo' ass out, then—
Mary: Shit, you taught me how to fight; I'll beat up every bitch in here, and you know it.
Stack: I taught you how to walk away when the money's up, too. Got you a rich white husband, got you a farm, now go home to it.
Mary: I ain't ask for none of that - all that shit was your idea! I didn't want no white man, I didn't want to be white. I wanted to be with you!
Stack: All it'd take is the wrong person in here to see you - word get back to them crackas, and they gon' try to kill you.
Mary: What would it matter to you?
Stack: 'Cause, if somebody out there put they hands on you... if they hurt you... me and my brother gon' come kill 'em all.
Mary: So you'll kill for me.
Stack: That's right.
Mary: But you still won't tell me the truth. I was young enough to believe you were comin' back. I waited. I waited a long time. But I'm grown now, Stack! And I know you never planned to stay. Why can't you just say that?!
Stack: Say what? Hmm? [He removes his hat] That I love you? That I think about you every day? I just wanted to keep you someplace safe. And that was never gon' be here... and it was never gon' be with me. Never.
Remmick: You fellers must be the owners of this establishment.
Smoke: That's right. And you are?
Remmick: Name's Remmick. This here's Joan and Bert.
Sammie: Hey Stack, y'all alright?
Remmick: Aww, and you... must be that voice I heard from out here. Aw, it was beautiful.
Joan: God damn bee-yew-tiful voice.
Bert: Even through these walls.
Smoke: Where y'all from?
Joan: Just down the road.
Stack: And how far is that?
Remmick: North Carolina.
Smoke: Y'all Klan?
Remmick: [offended] Sir... w-we believe in equality and music. We just came here to play. Spend some money, have a good time. Here, I'll show you.
[Remmick, Joan, and Bert play "Picked Poor Robin Clean" on the banjo. The others watch in confusion, though Stack chuckles and nods along a bit.]
Smoke: [stopping the music after a bit] Hold on hold on, just a minute.
Remmick: Aw, its just about to get good.
Smoke: Nah I believe ya. But this here a juke joint.
Stack: Blues music.
Bert: Well we've got money and we ready to spend it with y'all.
Remmick: Soundin' damn near perfect and you're saying we ain't welcome.
Smoke: Nah I'm saying you get down that road and get back into town. Plenty of white barrel houses down there.
Remmick: [chuckles] Aw this- this cuz we're... [gestures to skin] Alright. [Points at Mary] How'd she get in?
Mary: Now that is none-
Annie: [interrupting] She here cuz she family.
Remmick: Family... [sighs] Can- can we just, for one night, just all be family? [he steps forward, and Smoke reaches for his gun] Y-you don't need to do that, sir. We'll be on our way. But we're gonna walk real slow, just in case y'all change your mind.
[Mary applauds Remmick, Bert, and Joan after they play "Lassie Go.]"
Remmick: You looking for some fresh air, or...
Mary: I just come to see if y'all was good people.
Remmick: Aw darlin' that's so sweet of you.
Joan: So sweet.
Remmick: We most surely are
Mary: [sitting next to him] And y'all got money to spend?
Remmick: Oh yeah, plenty money. You wanna see?
Mary: Yeah, I wanna see. [Bert hands her some gold] What type of money is this?
Remmick: The solid gold kind, darlin'. Yeah.
Mary: Where's this from?
Remmick: It's from a different place in a different time. But it spends just the same. You can have it. But it's no good to you.
Joan: It's no good to her...
Bert: [shaking his head] Mmm-mm.
Mary: Well, what makes you say that?
Remmick: Cuz you in some deep, deep pain that money can't fix. Am I right? [Mary looks at him] You came over here for fellowship and love.
Joan: Fellowship and love...
Mary: My mother... she just passed.
Remmick: Aw that's awful. Ah...
Bert: Just awful.
Joan: Just awful... [touches Mary's shoulder]
Bert: Losin' a mother is a hurtin' feeling.
Remmick: Mhmm. Y'know I wish in my heart that we'd have met sooner. I would've liked to have saved your mother from her fate. I can still save you from yours.
Mary: Oh no you must have me confused. I'm sad is all, but I don't need no saving.
Remmick: [eyes now red with drool hanging from his mouth] Yes... yes you do. You all do. [he looks at her neck and Mary quickly gets up and points a gun]
Mary: I'm gonna head back now, and I think y'all should too. Back to where we all came from. [as she walks away, Remmick levitates into the air, eyes glowing]
Stack: You droolin'.
Mary: You want some?
Smoke: Come tomorrow, I find out about you playing in one of these, boy, I'll kill you myself.
Sammie Moore: Look, I'm leaving that plantation just like y'all did. And if that's a problem for you, kill me now.
Smoke: [Smoke aims gun at Sammie and cocks the hammer back] What's the matter? I'm a soldier, boy, and you just gave me a command.
Delta Slim: Y'all smell anything?
Annie: No.
Delta Slim: I think I shat myself.
[Stack revives as a vampire after being bitten by Mary]
Smoke: [looks through the knife hole in the door] Stack... nigga, that's you?
Stack: Naw, fool, it's Jim Crow!
Sammie: How can it move and sound like Stack if it ain't Stack?
Annie: I only ever heard stories. I ain't never come across them myself.
Pearline: What stories you heard?
Annie: How haints work; they switch places with the soul of a man. But vampires is different... maybe the worst kind: The soul gets stuck in the body. Can't rejoin the ancestors... cursed to live here with all this hate. Can't even feel the warmth of a sunrise.
Bo: Hey, baby. Come on outside, I got the car started Let's go. [Grace doesn't move] Come on, Grace.
Grace: ...he's killin' him.
Bo: [He glances over to Cornbread, who's killing a juke patron] Oh, you talking about that? Don't worry about Cornbread. He's just a little hungry, that's all. Let's go, come on.
[Grace just stares at him. There's blood on the back of his shirt.]
Bo: Come on and go. I got the car warmed up. [He looks back to Grace, obviously unamused] Or... you let me back in there, and I'll come in and we can grab our things and head home.
Annie: Don't listen to him.
Smoke: Grace, we're gonna find a way out of this, I promise.
Remmick: I am your way out. This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build, won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever.
Bo: It's better this way, baby. So why don't you go ahead and invite us in?
Remmick: You should listen to him, Grace, or listen to me. Because I know everything he knows now, and I want you to let us in there. Or we're gonna go to the grocery store, we're gonna pay little Lisa a visit.
Grace: No, no, no, don’t you fucking dare!
Remmick: Oh, yeah, Grace, I know everything now. [he starts speaking Toisan] Even how you like to be licked. I can promise I won't bite too hard.
Sammie Moore: You're the devil, ain't you?
Remmick: Sammie! You're the one I came for. I sensed you. I want to see my people again, I'm trapped here. But your gifts can bring them to me. Y'all give them to me now. Just- just give me little Sammie. We'll let y'all live.
[Sammie moves to the door, but Smoke and the others hold him back]
Smoke: Hey, hey, easy.
Delta Slim: I'm gonna tell you something, you goddamn peckerwood. You can't have him. He belongs to us. He belongs with us! And I ain't gonna let that happen.
Remmick: You can't save him, Smoke - no more than you could save your brother.
[Stack walks up to Club Juke, laughing and carrying Mary in his arms]
Remmick: You ain't safe here. No matter how many guns or how much money, they gonna take it from you when they want. You built something here tonight, and it was beautiful. But it was built on a lie. Hogwood? Well, he's the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. [He points to Bert] That's his motherfucking nephew! They was always gonna kill you - I just happened to show up at the right place at the right time.
Stack: He telling the truth, Smoke. I can see his memories.
Delta Slim: Smoke, that ain't your brother.
Stack: This wasn't no juke joint, no club. This is a... slaughterhouse.
Bert: It's a goddamn killing floor.
Joan: But what Uncle Hogwood don't know is we gonna start ourselves a new Klan based on love.
Remmick: Now that we got numbers, we'll probably go to that old bigot and rectify him, too.
Annie: Why can't y'all just go?
Mary: Because we're not leaving without y'all. We family. Ain't that right? I know it sound crazy, but... after we kill y'all, we're gonna have heaven right here on Earth!
Delta Slim: Hey, let me tell you somethin'. Let me tell YOU goddamn somethin', nigga. The Stack I know, he ain't fellowshipping with no goddamn devil.
Stack: Fuck you, nigger. It is me. Elias Moore. And I'm talking to my big brother right now, so I'mma kindly ask you to shut the fuck up.
Stack: [turns to Smoke] We was never gonna be free. We've been running around everywhere looking for freedom. You know damn well we was never gonna find it. Until this. This is the way. Together. Forever. And I ain't doing this shit without ya. There is no me without you. What's it gon' be?
Smoke: [holding wooden stake towards Stack] Sorry I couldn't keep you safe.
Stack: Don't be sorry, you always did.
Remmick: I want your stories. And I want your songs. And you gon' have mine. [prepares to bite Sammie]
Sammie Moore: [desperately reciting] Our Father... which art in Heaven... hallowed be thy name...
Remmick: [in distinct Irish accent] Thy kingdom come... thy will be done... on Earth, as it is in Heaven.
[The large group of vampires outside of the joint begins reciting the Our Father simultaneously with Remmick]
Remmick: Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not in temptation. Deliver us from evil. Amen.
[The group stops reciting, and Remmick returns to speaking in a Southern accent]
Remmick: 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.
[Remmick dunks Sammie's head briefly under the water]
Remmick: Those men lied to themselves, then lied to us. [dunks Sammie's head again] They told stories of a God above and a Devil below, and lies of a dominion of man over beast and Earth! [dunks Sammie's head again] We are Earth and beast and God. We are woman and man. We are connected, you and I... to everything.
Old Sammie: You know something? Maybe once a week, I wake up paralyzed, reliving that night. But before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life. Was it like that for you?
Stack: [He smiles] No doubt about it. Last time I seen my brother.
[In a flashback, Smoke and Stack hug each other]
Stack: Last time I seen the sun. And just for a few hours... we was free.

Taglines

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  • Dance with the devil.
  • We are all sinners.
  • It's gonna be a real ring-a-ding-ding!

Cast

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  • Helena Hu – Lisa Chow
  • Lola Kirke – Joan
  • Peter Dreimanis – Bert
  • Saul Williams – Jedediah
  • Andrene Ward-Hammond – Ruthie
  • David Maldonado – Hogwood
  • Nathaniel Arcand – Chayton
  • Tenaj L. Jackson – Beatrice
  • Nicoye Banks – Jacob

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