1. #1Vampires

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   Vampire Lore – Sinners (1932 Delta Rules): 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. Prior to the events of the film, the origins of the vampire infection are unexplained. Remmick is implied to have been alive since the start of the 17th 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.

   Alias: Haints (mistakenly) Goals: Feed on and infect every party member of the juke joint to increase their "family" Crimes: Mass murder, Mass destruction, Property damage, Death threats. Type of Hostile Species: Murderous Vampires. 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 1992 identically to how they looked in 1932. Behavior: The vampire horde in the movie acts as a hive mind under the influence and control of Remmick. All the vampires share a telepathic connection with each other that allows them to experience their memories, desires, emotions, and sensations as one collective consciousness, 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 the infection increases the negative aspects of the person and 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. However, some vampires can retain some of their humanity, as is the case with Mary and Stack, who respected Sammie's decision to remain human. 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.

   Vampire Strengths & Weaknesses: Powers: Immortality: Vampires can live forever unless killed, never aging ever since they turn. Remmick is implied to have lived for centuries. 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. Sacred Pendants: As seen with Stack trying to bite his brother Smoke, a pendant slipped out of Smoke's shirt collar, which was seeing repelling stack away, thus may have the same type of effect on other Vampires. Sunlight: Fatal within minutes or seconds. Decapitation: severs head from body, ends them permanently. Hunger never ends: constant drive to feed. Starvation weakens them but doesn’t kill. Fire: burns fast and hurts like hell, but they can survive if extinguished quickly.

2. #2Remmick

   Keys: Remmick · Secondary: vampire, antagonist

   Remmick is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Jack O'Connell. He is an ancient Irish immigrant vampire who longs to reconnect with his lost culture. As one of the primary antagonists in the film, Remmick is a charismatic and multifaceted figure who inadvertently replicates the same colonial violence once inflicted upon his people by the British Empire. He is ultimately killed by Smoke at the end, who drives a stake through his chest as the sun rises.

   Remmick is the main antagonist of the 2025 period 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

   Full Name: Remmick (surename unknown) Other Names: The Devil (by Sammie), White Devil (by Grace), Peckerwood (by Delta Slim) Age: 34 (physically), 1300-1536 (chronologically) Born: 396-632 Home: Ireland (???-1911), Boston (1911-19??), Clarksdale, Mississippi 19??-1932) Nationality: Irish Hobby: Spending time with his family and people (formerly). Dancing to his Irish culture. Turning others into vampires. Trying to turn Sammie Moore. Singing. Creating a "Family". Goal: Form his community from anyone he comes across (mostly succeeded, ultimately failed when the majority of his peers were killed). Turn Sammie into a vampire so he can conjure the spirits of his family and ancestors using Sammie's music (failed). Occupation: Musician, Cult leader, Vampire. Physical Description: Gender: Male Hair Color: Blackish dark brown Species: Abhartach Vampire. Height: 5’7” (1.71 cm) Eye Color: Blue, Red (natural) Appearances: Portrayed by Jack O'Connell.

   Casting: Rather than Remmick being purely evil, O'Connell described the character as "complicated," noting that many of Remmick's speeches were sincere. "In his mind, he's a good guy," he said. He noted how sincerity was a key reminder from the director: "Ryan never really wanted to lean into the monstrousness of it all. Studying vampires in cinema was not important, really. It was more a case of portraying this imposter. Portraying this person who can deceive and who poses as totally human and trustworthy and sincere, rather than anything overtly typical."

   Biography: Remmick is a 600-year-old Irish vampire who has witnessed his people suffer under British colonial rule and religious persecution. While fleeing Choctaw vampire hunters, he encounters a local Klan couple outside of Mississippi, Joan and Bert, who invite him into their home. Remmick turns them into vampires, recruiting them to his cause. On the opening night of Club Juke, Sammie Moore's music awakens spirits of the past, present, and future—drawing Remmick and his thralls, who offer money and music for entry. Suspicious, Smoke refuses, fearing trouble from the white visitors. Outside, Remmick and his followers perform "Pick Poor Robin Clean." Mary, persuaded by the club's financial needs, meets Remmick and is turned into a vampire. She returns inside and kills Stack, while outside, Remmick turns Cornbread. Smoke closes the club early, but as patrons exit, they are attacked and turned. Still barred from entering, Remmick offers to leave in exchange for Sammie, believing Sammie's music can help him reconnect with his ancestors. He claims vampirism brings immortality and liberation from racism, warning that Hogwood, the local Klan leader, plans an attack at dawn. When the offer is rejected, Remmick threatens to kill Grace's daughter, Lisa. In desperation, Grace invites the vampires inside, triggering a fight. Remmick turns Pearline and battles Sammie by a river. Sammie strikes him with his guitar, embedding its silver disc in Remmick's head and stunning the thralls. Smoke delivers the final blow, staking Remmick. As dawn breaks, Remmick and his followers are destroyed by sunlight.

   Early Life: Around 396 or 632 Remmick was born in Ireland to his unnamed parents as a vampire who was part of a community in Ireland. He was presumably born around the 5th century as it was before the arrival of Christianity. At an unknown point he meet an unnamed women and married her at some unknown point Christianity invaded Ireland stealing Remmick father’s land and forcing their Christian beliefs and prays onto them. 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. it’s implied his family were killed by the Christians leaving Remmick presumably the last of his kind.

   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.

   Reception: Vanity Fair noted that Sinners uses Appalachian folk and Scotch-Irish music to add emotional depth to Remmick and his followers, casting them as part of a shared, fractured cultural legacy shaped by displacement and oppression. The film suggests a broader commentary on systemic class struggle, portraying even violent perpetrators as victims of a long-standing social hierarchy. Despite their complicity in racism, these characters are shown to be shaped by historical forces beyond their control. The Wrap saw Remmick as a symbol of assimilation and cultural appropriation. While he claims to empathize with the struggles of Black Americans, he also Sammie to be handed over, so he can exploit his musical talent—echoing how his own ancestors were culturally erased by the British. He promises liberation through conformity, cloaking his intentions in language of "fellowship and love." Though he denounces groups like the Ku Klux Klan as oppressors, Remmick ultimately perpetuates the same colonial violence he once endured. As Harris writes, "while Remmick empathizes with the Black community, he lets his sensitivity to marginalization be overshadowed by his personal gain... [using] his powers (whiteness) as a weapon."[7] Salon's Melanie McFarland similarly observed how themes of cultural theft is reinforced: "Where other vampires drain their victims' blood, Remmick absorbs their memories and abilities, including their language and their magic."

3. #3Sammie Moore

   Keys: Sammie Moore, cousin, cousin of the twins, moore family, preacher boy, samuel moore

   Sammie Moore: "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?" Sammie to Stack.

   "Music was all we had when the world turned its back. So we made it scream." ~ Sammie on the power of music.

   Samuel "Sammie" Moore is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Miles Caton. His older self is played by Buddy Guy. Sammie is a young, talented blues musician and sharecropper from Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the only human to have survived the 1932 attack at Club Juke. He grows up to become a renowned performer in Chicago.

   Samuel "Sammie" Moore, also known as Preacher Boy is the main protagonist of the 2025 musical action period horror film Sinners. He is a young sharecropper and the son of local preacher Jedidiah Moore. Longing to escape his father's controlling, fundamentalist nature, Sammie moonlights as a blues musician with his cousins, the notorious gangsters Smoke and Stack. While playing his music at Smoke and Stack's club, Sammie summons the spirits of his ancestors and inadvertently draws the attention of Remmick, a powerful vampire who seeks to take Sammie's magical abilities for himself.

   Alias(es): Preacher Boy. Family: Elijah Moore (cousin), Elias Moore (cousin), Jedidiah Moore (father). Full Name: Samuel Moore. Other Names: Sammie Moore, Preacher Boy, Little Sammie, Sammie. Age: 18-20 (1932), 78-80 (1992). Born: 1912-1914. Home: Clarksdale, Mississippi (1912-19??), Chicago (19??-1992) Hobby: Playing blues music. Hanging out with Smoke and Stack (formerly). Goal: Become a famous musician. Move to Chicago. Defeat Remmick and his vampire horde. Leave his father's ambitions for him behind and become his own man (all succeeded). Occupation: Sharecropper (formerly), Singer, Guitarist Romance: Pearline (love interest) Gender: Male Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Height: 6’1” Portrayed by: Miles Caton Relatives: Jedidiah Moore (father), Ruthie Moore (mother), Unnamed siblings, Elias Moore (first cousin), Elijah Moore (first cousin), Annie (ex-cousin-in-law), Unnamed first cousin once removed, Mr. Moore (uncle), Mrs. Moore (aunt) Allies: Smoke, Pearline (love interest), Stack (currently), Mary, Annie, Delta Slim, Grace Chow, Cornbread, Bo Chow.

   Casting: Sinners was Caton's debut acting role. Director Ryan Coogler and casting director Francine Maisler received audition tapes from around the world, submitted by musicians, actors, or individuals who dabbled in both. Caton's tape stood out, with Coogler recalling: "He was just in the dark—like he didn't turn his lights on. Something about that was, like, so intriguing. This kid looked like he was in his basement, like in between homework assignments. But he had this voice—a once in a lifetime voice—and he also felt like the character." Caton learned to play blues guitar over the course of two months with Randy Bowland and worked with dialect and acting coach Beth McGuire to capture the nuances of the Mississippi dialect.

   Biography: Sammie has aspirations of becoming a musician. He receives a guitar from his older twin cousins, Smoke and Stack, who claim it once belonged to blues legend Charley Patton, but in actuality was his uncle's. Sammie earns the nickname "Preacher Boy" as the son of the local minister, Jedidiah, who disapproves of his music and warns that it will attract the devil. One day, Smoke and Stack recruit Sammie to play at the grand opening of their juke joint. He eagerly agrees, thrilled by the freedom to pursue music. He joins Stack on a visit to persuade the talented harmonica player Delta Slim to perform with them. During the trip, Sammie gives an impromptu performance with Slim that draws a crowd. He is instantly enamored with Pearline, a married singer, whom he flirts with and invites to join the group at the juke.At the club's opening night, Sammie performs "I Lied to You," unknowingly summoning spirits of the past, present, and future. The song draws the attention of an ancient Irish vampire named Remmick, who arrives with a recently turned KKK couple. Remmick seeks Sammie's power to reconnect with his heritage and the souls he has lost. As danger looms outside, the club's remaining survivors prepare for defense. Hoodoo practitioner and herbalist Annie instructs them on crafting weapons. Grace Chow, fearing for her daughter's safety, insists they take a stand. She ultimately opens the doors to the others, and the humans fight back. Annie is bitten by Stack, but Smoke stakes her before she can turn. Delta Slim sacrifices himself to buy time for the others, though Pearline is bitten in the chaos. Sammie tries to escape but is pursued by Remmick. As the vampire delivers a speech and his horde gathers, Sammie uses the silver disk of his guitar to wound Remmick. This distraction allows Smoke to deliver the fatal blow, staking Remmick through the chest just as the sun rises. The vampires outside are burned to ash. Smoke urges Sammie to leave. Bloodied and carrying the broken neck of his guitar, Sammie returns to his father's church. His father pleads with him to give up music, but instead, Sammie leaves, heading to Chicago with his guitar in hand. Smoke in the meanwhile, kills all the Klansmen but is killed in the process, leaving Sammie as the sole surviving human of the attack. Sixty years later, in 1992, Sammie is now an elderly bluesman (probably in his Eighties). He is unexpectedly visited by ageless Stack and Mary, who reveal they've bought all of his CDs. Stack explains how he survived that night and the promise he made to Smoke never to harm Sammie. He tells Sammie that his time is ending—and offers him immortality, so he can play music forever. Sammie declines, saying he's "seen enough of this place." Stack asks Sammie to play a song for old time's sake. Sammie then plays for them "Travelin'," the first piece he ever played for Stack. After he finishes, Stack hugs Sammie, and he and Mary prepare to leave. However, before leaving, Sammie tells Stack that, despite still being traumatized by the night of the attack, the day leading up to the attack was the best day of his life and asks him if he feels the same. Stack said yes, and that for a few hours he was free. He and Mary then leave, while Sammie feels at peace.

4. #4Smoke

   Keys: Smoke, Elijah Moore

   "You know, woman, 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 give you that." Smoke to Annie.

   Elijah Moore, more commonly known by his nickname Smoke, is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Michael B. Jordan. He is a World War I veteran and former gangster. He is the older identical twin brother of Elias "Stack" Moore, the two informally called the Smokestack Twins. Smoke can be regarded as the more sensible and no-nonsense twin, and is usually distinguished by wearing blue. He manages to survive the 1932 attack on Club Juke, though gets mortally wounded the next morning when facing off a group of Klansmen. He reunites with his wife Annie and their daughter in the afterlife.

   Full Name: Elijah Moore Other Names: Smoke, Smokestack twins (alongside Stack) Age: 37 Height: 6’10” (1.83 cm) Born: 1895 Died: October 16, 1932 Home: Clarksdale, Mississippi (1894-1932), Chicago (19??-) Nationality: American Alias(es): Smoke. Family: Elias Moore (younger twin brother), Sammie Moore (cousin), Jedidiah Moore (uncle), Ruthie Moore (aunt), Annie (wife), Unnamed Daughter. Species: Human. Gender: Male. Hair Color: Black. Eye Color: Brown. Hobby: Hanging out with Stack and Sammie. Running a Juke Joint out of the old saw mill (both formerly after the end). Goal: Open the Juke Joint out of the Saw Mill. Survive the night (both succeeded). Kill the KKK members (succeeded but at the cost of his life). Weapons: Colt M1911, M1921 Thompson, M1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle, Mk 2 hand grenade. Affiliation: Club Juke Occupation: Soldier, Bootlegger and enforcer for the Chicago Mob, Rogue bootlegger (all formerly), Co-owner of the Smokestack Juke Joint Relationship status: Divorced Romance: Annie (ex-wife/love interest)

   Biography: Smoke sees himself as a father and as a man who's unredeemable because of his past sins, but he also sees himself as a soldier. For him, soldier means he's a killer. He's as good at killing people as Sammie is at singing (and) as Stack is at coming up with schemes and talking people into doing things that they might not want to do. That would always be how he would respond to what happens. It was also the only ending that made sense.

   Elijah and Elias Moore were raised by an abusive father, whom the former kills to protect Stack. Smoke wanted to move to the next planation over, though Stack saw Mound Bayou as a safe retreat, which was founded by free slaves. They weren't allowed to stay, however, where the mayor knew of their father and believed the evil had passed onto them. They were taken in by a mixed-race woman and became friends with her white-passing daughter, Mary. The brothers left rural Mississippi to fight in World War I as part of the 369th infantry, and after it ended, worked for the Chicago Outfit. Once they acquired enough money and liquor through dishonest means, they returned to Clarksdale to start a new business.

   The Twins purchase an abandoned sawmill from its racist owner, Hogwood, and transform it into a juke joint for the local Black community. They recruit a few people to their cause: Sammie, their cousin and a musician; Delta Slim, a renowned harmonica player; Pearline, a singer; Cornbread, a cotton field worker serving as the bouncer; and Grace and Bo Chow, a Chinese couple who work as suppliers.

   Smoke visits his wife Annie, also paying respect at their child's grave. He then asks her to cook for the juke's opening night. There remains unresolved tension, where they became estranged ever since the death of their daughter. She refuses to accept his blood money, to which he retorts that only money can give power. She points out how her mojo bag protected him after all this time, and he asks why it didn't work on their baby. She wonders why he came, where he finally admits that he loves and misses her, and they proceed to make love.

   On opening night, the partygoers enjoy music, food, and drink. Sammie performs, unknowingly summoning ancestral spirits from the past and future. This attracts the ancient vampire Remmick, who is joined with Bert and Joan—a Klansman couple he has recently turned. The three are denied entry, where Smoke knows one wrong move would result in a white angry mob. The Twins also realize they won't have enough funds to keep the joint afloat, as most of their patrons use plantation money. Sammie tells Smoke he'll be leaving the town to pursue his musical dreams, and Smoke cautions it not being safe.

   Things go awry when Smoke finds Mary, who has just killed Stack. He shoots her multiple times but she remains unaffected and runs out of the juke. The partygoers are asked to leave and the remaining survivors debate on what to do. Annie suspects an evil spirit when Cornbread asks to be invited in. Cornbread still wants to be paid, but once Smoke hands over the money, the vampire drags Smoke outside; Smoke shoots him and manages to get back safely inside the joint. By this time, Stack is revived and demands to be let out. Annie wards him off with pickled garlic juice and realizes the monsters aren't haints, but vampires. The survivors make each other eat a clove of garlic and create tools to defend themselves. Annie has Smoke promise her that if she gets bitten, he will drive a stake through her heart to free her.

   When confronted once more by the creatures, Remmick reveals how Hogwood is the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and plans on attacking the juke in the morning. He also threatens to visit Grace's daughter, causing Grace to become enraged and eventually invites them inside. Stack kills Annie, making Smoke fulfill his promise to her. He later has a face-off with his brother, where Annie's protection charm works in Stack unable to bite him. He then promises to spare his brother's life on the condition that Sammie be left alone.

   Meanwhile, Remmick and his followers chase after Sammie outside. Before Sammie gets killed, Smoke delivers a stake through Remmick's heart and the sun rises, causing the vampires to disintegrate. In the aftermath, Smoke tells Sammie to go home and bury the guitar.

   Smoke has unfinished business, where he takes off his mojo bag but keeps his dog tag on, no longer needing protection as he accepts his death. He collects his guns and waits for the Klansmen to arrive before launching a surprise attack. He manages to kill every single one but is fatally wounded on his side. He asks the equally injured Hogwood for a cigarette, then sees a vision of Annie and their child. Annie says he can hold their baby if he puts the smoke out, a translation to leaving his old life behind, though Hogwood interrupts this moment by offering money. Smoke repeatedly shoots Hogwood before holding the baby, uttering his last words "Papa's here," the same words he'd said at her grave. With Smoke's death, Sammie is the sole surviving human of the attack.

   Trivia: Smoke suffered from PTSD from his time in the war, and usually his brother would roll a cigarette for him since his hands would shake. He wore a vintage Elgin trench watch. Props master Douglas Ware stated of a possible backstory, "I didn't think Smoke would have that watch before he shipped off to France but something he acquired after being there a while. Maybe he arrived with chocolates or American cigarettes and traded with a French soldier. Maybe he won it in a card game or got some French soldiers out of a dangerous situation. To show their appreciation, someone gave him their watch". In his final standoff against the KKK, Smoke wielded the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) and Thompson submachine "Tommy" gun. The latter gun gained notoriety for its use by gangsters during the Prohibition era, earning the nickname "Chicago typewriter". Since Smoke's death was not shown on screen, it was assumed that he might have survived, and his reunion with Annie and their child was merely a hallucination. However, the actress Wunmi Mosaku, who played Annie stated in an interview that she considered Smoak's fate to be a happy ending, confirming that Elijah did indeed die and reunite with Annie. Smoke is the last human to be bitten/killed in the attack.

5. #5Stack

   Keys: Elias Moore, Stack · Secondary: twin brother, twins

   "Just for a few hours, we was free." Stack to Sammie, reminiscing that night.

   Family: Elijah Moore (twin brother), Sammie Moore (cousin), Jedidiah Moore (uncle), Mary (partner). Other Names: Stack, Baby brother (by Smoke) Gender: Male. Hair Color: Black. Eye Color: Brown. Portrayed by: Michael B. Jordan Nationality: American Age: 37 (1932/1992; physically), 97 (1992; chronologically) Died: October 15, 1932 (revived) Home: Clarksdale, Mississippi (1894-19??), Chicago (19??-1992) Hobby: Hanging out with Smoke and Sammie. Running a Juke Joint out of the old saw mill (both formerly). Spending time with Mary. Goal: Return to Mississippi with his brother to start a new life. Starting a juke joint business for his local community. Bite and turn everyone into a vampire (partially succeeded). Kill his brother and Sammie (abandoned). Weapons: Luger P08, Trench knife. Affiliation: Chicago Mob (formerly), Club Juke. Occupation: Soldier, Bootlegger and enforcer for the Chicago Mob, Rogue bootlegger (all formerly), Co-owner of the Smokestack Juke Joint. Relationship status: Dating Mary. Romance: Mary (girlfriend) Relatives: Adam Moore (father), Mrs. Moore (mother), Smoke (older twin brother), Annie (ex-sister-in-law), Unnamed niece , Jedidiah Moore (uncle), Ruthie Moore (aunt), Sammie Moore (cousin), Unnamed cousins

   Elias Moore, more commonly known by his nickname Stack, is a fictional character in the 2025 American supernatural horror film Sinners, portrayed by Michael B. Jordan. He is a World War I veteran, former gangster, and vampire. He is the younger identical twin brother of Elijah "Smoke" Moore, the two informally called the Smokestack twins. The Moore twins grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and eventually fought in the First World War. After the war, the two became involved in Chicago's criminal underworld. In 1932, they returned to Clarksdale, bought an abandoned sawmill, and turned it into a juke joint for the local Black community. On its opening night, Elias was bitten and turned into a vampire by his former lover, Mary, and subsequently joined Remmick's band of vampires. Following an attack on the club, he and Mary managed to escape and roam the earth as vampires. Elias is regarded as a secondary antagonist, though can also be seen as an antihero. He was the more business-savvy and risk-taking of the twins.

   Elias "Stack" Moore is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Mary) of the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. He is a World War I veteran, bootlegger, mob enforcer and the younger twin brother of Elijah "Smoke" Moore. Together with his older brother, they bought an abandoned sawmill and turned it into a juke joint club for the local black community,

   Casting: Michael B. Jordan played the dual role of Smoke and Stack, focusing on creating distinct mannerisms for each character. He described the experience as fun but challenging, explaining that he "did every scene like four times, fives times," though he eventually found "a rhythm and after a while it was second nature." Concerning the post-credits scene, where Stack visits Sammie for the final time: "He's probably the last person alive that knew who he was before he was a vampire. There was an honesty that was there and a vulnerability that he wasn't going to get any more for the rest of the eternity." His '90s outfit was a Coogi sweater, Cartier glasses, and a brass knuckle ring that reads 'Stack'. He first collaborated with director Ryan Coogler on the 2013 film Fruitvale Station. Jordan has appeared in all five of Coogler's feature films, including the two Black Panther movies and Creed. Speaking about Jordan's performance in Sinners, Coogler remarked, "It's a testament to his charisma. As soon as you put the camera on him, you just naturally care about the guy—'Aw, man, my heart goes out to this person.'"

   Biography: Stack and his older twin brother, Smoke, grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi. They were raised by an abusive father, whom Smoke killed to protect Stack. They were adopted by a mixed-race woman and became friends with her white-passing daughter, Mary. Stack eventually formed a brief romance with the latter. The brothers left rural Mississippi to serve in the First World War and, after the war ended, worked for the Chicago Outfit, led by Al Capone. After acquiring enough money through dishonest means, they returned to their hometown in 1932 to start a new business. Using stolen mob money, Stack and Smoke purchase an abandoned sawmill from its racist owner, Hogwood. They decide to build a juke joint club after recruiting a few talents: Sammie, their cousin and a musician; Delta Slim, a renowned blues harmonica player; Pearline, a singer; Cornbread, a cotton field worker serving as the bouncer; and Grace and Bo Chow, a Chinese couple who worked as bartenders and suppliers. Stack briefly reconnects with Mary, who resents him for abandoning her when he left for Chicago. Stack claims it was to protect her, likely due to the anti-miscegenation laws and overt racism at the time. On opening night, Sammie begins playing music for the audience, unknowingly summoning ancestral spirits from the past and future. Mary also joins the party, much to Stack's annoyance. Outside, the vampire Remmick, along with Bert and Joan—a Klansman couple he has just turned—attempt to enter the club but are refused entry. Moments later, Mary goes outside to talk to Remmick, who manipulates her grief over her mother's death. When she returns to the club, now a vampire, she lures Stack into the storage shack to have sex. Smoke arrives too late to stop her as Mary bites Stack on the jugular. Horrified, Smoke shoots her multiple times but fails to kill her. Mary flees the club, while Smoke and the other guests lock the storage room with Stack's body inside. Stack transforms into a vampire and convinces his brother to let him out. Annie (Smoke's estranged wife and a conjure woman) repels him with pickled garlic juice, forcing Stack to flee and join the other vampires. Eventually, the vampires attack the club, and Stack ends up fighting his brother. Smoke overpowers him and offers a condition for sparing his life: Stack must leave Sammie alone. As the sun rises, Remmick and the rest of the vampire horde burn to death—except for Stack and Mary, who manage to escape. In 1992, Sammie has become a successful lifelong musician. After playing a gig at his bar, he is surprise visited by Mary and Stack, who were believed to have been killed. The couple have supported Sammie from afar, buying all of his CDs. Stack explained how he survived that night and the promise he made to Smoke. Hinting that Sammie's time is coming to an end, they offer immortality so that he can play music for all of eternity, but Sammie refuses. Stack and Mary listen to him play guitar once more before they leave. Sammie confesses that despite the horror of that night, the events leading up to it were the best day of his life. He asks Stack if he felt the same. Stack replies that it was—for it was the last day he saw his brother, the sun, and felt truly free.

6. #6Mary

   Keys: Mary, stack's partner · Secondary:

   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 wanna be white. I wanted to be with you." Mary to Stack. "We gonna kill every last one of you." ~ Mary to Smoke and Sammie after infecting Stack. "'Cause 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 gonna have heaven right here on Earth." ~ Mary trying to convince Annie to let them in.

   Mary is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Hailee Steinfeld. She is a multiracial woman who passes as white. She grew up with the Smokestack Twins, and is in love with Stack, where they can never truly be together due to the high racial tensions at the time. Upon getting transformed into a vampire, she turns Stack into one, where they become immortal and stay together. Mary is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Stack) in the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. She is Stack's ex-girlfriend and a visitor at the Smokestack Juke Joint who had a grudge against him due to leaving her without saying goodbye, eventually she was bit and turned into a vampire by the vampire Remmick.

   Full Name: Mary Other Names: Little Mary Age: 28-35 (1932/1992; physically), 88-95 (1992; chronologically) Born: 1896-1904 Died: October 15, 1932. (Cause: Back bitten out. Committed by Remmick (revived)) Gender: Female. Height: 5’8” (1.73 cm) Hair Color: Dark Brown. Eye Color: Brown, Yellow/green (vampire) Home: Clarskdale Mississippi (1896-19??), Chicago (19??-1992) Goal: Reunite and reconcile with Stack. Turn Stack into a vampire (both succeeded). Kill and turn everyone she can into vampires (partially succeeded under the influence of Remmick). Kill Smoke and Sammie (failed; abandoned). Weapons: Luger P08 Relationship status: Married to unnamed white man (formerly), Dating Stack Romance: Unnamed white husband, Stack (boyfriend)

   Casting: "There's something so incredible about each moment that Mary and Stack have together, that we catch a glimpse of what that forever could look like. You feel it when you when you see two of them. Stack says so much by not even looking at Mary a lot of the times when he's having a conversation with her—and that's for more reasons than one. But it's the conflict of him coming to terms with being able to admit that he wants to be there with her, and it's her trying to pull that out of him." Steinfeld to Variety.

   Several people auditioned for the role of Mary, including singer Halsey. She remarked on the In Your Dreams with Owen Thiele podcast, "There's not a lot of white-passing Black girls in Hollywood. So I did read the script." Although the role was given to Steinfeld, she praised, "She's incredible. I don't think I knew, but when her casting was announced I was like, that makes perfect sense. She's stunning. I've seen clips, and she's so commanding and powerful in the role. And she's amazing." The experience brought Steinfeld closer to her cultural identity. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, she stated how the role made her research her family history, which she occasionally did before "but never like I did when I took on this role." She added, "I love the research period for what we do, and the fact that this was something I got to walk away with, feeling closer to myself and closer to my family was the most incredible thing."

   Biography: Mary is from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Her maternal grandfather was half-Black, and her mother often faced prejudice from white folks for being the daughter of a mixed-raced couple. At the time, local laws would've prohibited interracial marriage, and wouldn't be repealed until 1972. Her mother helped deliver the Smokestack Twins and, when their mother died, took them in like her own. Mary grew up with the Twins and eventually entered a romantic relationship with Stack. He told her that he loved her, but ended up leaving one night and moving to Chicago. She ended up married to a rich white husband on a farm but never wanted that life. Seven years later, when the Smokestack Twins return home in October 1932, Mary spots Stack at the train station. She confronts him for not visiting her mother's funeral the other day, and harbors resentment for leaving her behind. That night, she appears at the opening of Club Juke. At first the designated bouncer Cornbread doesn't recognize her, thinking she's a white woman. When she enters, Sammie asks her to leave, though Mary asserts her position. Sammie asks what is she, and after Mary quips she's a human being, she explains her family roots and how her mother raised the Twins. Smoke isn't happy with Mary's presence, and tells Stack to take care of her or he will. Stack tries to convince her, though Mary explains she's there to hear the blues. Mary admits she waited for him, and he confesses that he loves her but they can't be together. The club is visited by three white strangers—Remmick, Joan, and Bert—who unbeknownst to them are vampires. The Twins deny them entry, knowing they'll bring trouble. As the night carries on, the Twins realize they won't be able to make enough profit due to most of their guests only having plantation money. Mary offers to talk to the strangers, feeling she can use her privilege to get them talking and how much money they have. She ends up getting turned into a vampire and heads back inside to seduce and turn Stack. Following the attack on Club Juke, Mary and Stack manage to break away from Remmick's hive after the death of Annie and flee the scene. Sixty years later, they remain alive and roam earth together. They visit the now old and renowned blues musician Sammie in Chicago, where he plays them a song.

   Reception: Melanie Curry of Refinery29 offered an assessment of the character, where "[it's] a reflection of how hypodescent dictates personal autonomy, notably the consequences of being subjected to it. No one would ever mistake Mary as a Black woman, but that doesn't mean she's white, either. Being a quarter Black means she's caught 'in the middle' of this rigid racial classification and that none of her choices are truly her own." She also opined that Mary's "privilege of 'passing' ultimately becomes [her] undoing." Screen Rant's Kieran Hair noted the potential for a sequel, where Mary and Stack reunite and have to "[deal] with Mary's husband if he ever comes looking for her." Meanwhile, Max Ruscinski observed of vampires as a whole not being purely evil creatures, using Mary as a prime example of where her reaction Annie's permanent death and her and Stack not attacking Sammie remaining some humanity.

7. #7Annie

   Keys: Annie, smoke wife, smokes wike, smoke's wife

   Annie: "There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true, they can conjure spirits of the past and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune. But it also can pierce the veil between life and death." by Annie.

   Annie is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Wunmi Mosaku. She is a Hoodoo conjurer, spiritual leader, and herbalist. Her character is witty, passionate, and protective of her community. She is the wife of Elijah "Smoke" Moore, though their marriage has suffered since the death of their daughter.

   Annie is a protagonist in Sinners. Her knowledge of Hoodoo helps her companions prepare for and defend themselves against the vampires. During the attack, she is bitten, and Smoke honors his promise by staking her through the heart before she can fully turn. In the end, she is reunited with Smoke and their child in the afterlife.

   Full Name: Annie Other Names: Witch (by Stack), Ms. Annie (by Cornbread) Age: 36 Born: 1895

   Family: Elijah Moore (husband), Elias Moore (brother-in-law), Unnamed Daughter, Jedidiah Moore (uncle-in-law), Ruthie Moore (aunt-in-law), Sammie Moore (cousin-in-law), Adam Moore (father-in-law), Mrs. Moore † (mother-in-law) Species: Human Gender: Female Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: Wunmi Mosaku

   Casting: "I like to think of Annie as Smoke's other other half, like Stack is. Stack is one side of him, but Annie is another side of him. She's his protector, lover, mother, safe place. She is his sanctuary." ~ Mosaku.

   Mosaku was given seven pages of Ryan Coogler's script, depicting the reunion between Annie and Smoke, and immediately fell in love with her character's storyline. The scene deeply moved her, where she felt she "understood their hope, their love, their grief, their connection, their understanding." During her audition, Mosaku was initially hesitant, intimidated by the prospect of acting opposite Michael B. Jordan. However, she was met with support and was offered the role on the spot. She and Jordan then spent two weeks rehearsing the scene together to build trust. She would learn at the end of filming that Coogler had her in mind for the part from the start. In preparing for the role, Mosaku admitted she knew nothing about Hoodoo beforehand. However, she was able to tap into her ancestral roots, sharing: "Hoodoo is from the Yoruba religion of Ifá, and I'm a Yoruba woman, and I didn't know anything about it. So I feel like I found a little piece of myself within her that I didn't know existed. And I feel like I've taken that within me, and I feel connected to my ancestry in a way that I didn't before." For research, she consulted conjure women and Hoodoo priestesses to ensure authenticity in her portrayal. Dr. Yvonne Chireau served as the film's official Hoodoo consultant. Despite Annie's death, Mosaku viewed the ending as happy: "Ultimately, [Annie] feels sorrow for anyone who was turned into a vampire. She says it perfectly, they can't feel the warmth of a sunrise and they have to live amongst all this hate in this world. These two are now connected in the ancestor world forever and by creating life together. This is the right way to join the ancestors. Is the right way everything else is to be trapped in a world of hate and pain and sorrow. So yeah, I feel like ultimately, [Smoke and Annie] are reunited." Costume designer Ruth E. Carter revealed the intentional wardrobe choices, where Annie is dressed in blue—specifically teal and haint blue. She adds of her accessories, "She has her own mojo bag. She has a little compartment where she keeps her knives and scissors because she might have to cut off some roots. She's got a chatelaine where she can have some holy water if she needs pickle juice or garlic to sprinkle on someone."

   Biography: At the age of 18, Annie moved from Louisiana to Clarksdale, Mississippi, where she began a romantic relationship with Smoke. The two married and had a child around the age of 22, whom they tragically lost, leading to a growing estrangement between them. Despite this, Smoke continued to wear the mojo bag she gave him when they first met. Smoke eventually left with his twin brother, Stack, to fight in World War I, and later work for the Chicago Outfit. Annie runs a shop located on the Maybell Plantation, where she offers herbal remedies and sells meals to sharecroppers and passing workers. She is deeply connected with her faith, being taught Hoodoo from her grandmother. The Smokestack Twins return to Clarksdale years later, with plans to open a juke joint for the Black community. Smoke visits Annie's house, first laying fresh flowers on their child's grave outside then asking if she can cook for the club's opening night. He offers money, but she refuses, knowing his wealth was acquired through dishonest means. She wonders the real reason he's there, and he admits how it still hurts coming back to the place but he loves and misses her. The two share an intimate moment, bound by their need for each other. At the opening night of Club Juke, they unknowingly encounter three vampires who seek invitation into the establishment. The group refuses due to uneasiness and premonition of trouble, and the vampires wait outside for another opportunity. When the joint's designated bouncer Cornbread attempts to re-enter, Annie suspects he's no longer human. She originally believes they are threatened by haints, though upon Stack's death and resurrection, realizes they are dealing with vampires instead. She warns the others about their nature: only sunlight, silver, or wooden stakes can kill them; they cannot enter a building without an invitation; and killing Remmick—their leader—won't undo the transformation of those he's turned. Annie also makes Smoke promise to kill her if she is bitten so her soul won't be trapped. Once the vampires gain entry, the survivors fight back with their handmade weapons. Annie is attacked by Stack, and Smoke tearfully fulfills his promise. He is then confronted by Stack for Annie's death, though is protected by the mojo bag that prevents Stack from getting close to bite. The next morning, Smoke removes Annie's protective amulet and hides near the juke joint as Ku Klux Klan members surround it. He opens fire but is fatally shot by one of the Klansmen. As he dies, he gains a glimpse into the afterlife, where he sees Annie nursing their child. He asks to hold the baby, and she tells him to put out his cigarette first as she doesn't want the "smoke" to get on their child. Hogwood, the grand wizard of the KKK who is also on the brink of death, interrupts the moment by offering money; Smoke unloads the rest of his ammo, killing the last Klansman. He then reunites with Annie and their child in the afterlife.

   Reception: Critics have highlighted Annie's role as a powerful spiritual figure rooted in Black faith and ancestral knowledge. Maya Phillips of The New York Times observed that Annie remains deeply committed to her community, offering care and protection through her spiritual practices—"even when they can't entirely compensate her." Phillips described Annie as a symbol of Black mythology and spiritual resilience, noting that her strength and guidance protect Smoke until the film's tragic climax, when he is fatally shot by a Klansman. In his final moments, Smoke envisions Annie and their lost child dressed in white, evoking a vision of peace and transcendence. Similarly, Christopher Gurley Jr. of Religion News Service emphasized Annie's role as a protector, framing her character as a representation of African spiritual survival amid historical violence. Her actions—especially her confrontation with a vampire and her plea for Smoke to ensure her soul's passage if bitten—invite viewers into a deeper understanding of life, death, and protection from a Black spiritual perspective. Gurley interprets these moments as affirming Hoodoo's view of death not as an end, but as a transition into the ancestral realm. Keka Araújo of Black Enterprise underscored how Annie serves as "the bridge" between religion and Black ancestry, asserting that "her ability to see what others can't, her fierce protection of her community—that's Hoodoo. It's about healing what's broken, shielding ourselves from harm, and calling on the spirits for guidance. It's practical, sacred, and a testament to our ancestors' ingenuity." HelloBeautiful's Aramide Tinubu praised Mosaku's portrayal and the character's depth, stating that she "push[es] back against the stereotypes Black women have endured within and outside our community for centuries," offering long-overdue representation in a medium that has often relegated deeply melanated Black women to the "mammy" stereotype. Annie—who is dark-skinned, full-figured, and an African spiritual practitioner—is portrayed as desirable and given a critical, empowered role. Andscape editor David Dennis Jr. echoed similar sentiments, saying, "as we just do not see full-figured, dark-skinned Black women as love interests in blockbuster movies, especially in movies where an action superstar like Michael B. Jordan is fully enraptured by her emotionally and physically. And yes, men loving, desiring, and seeking to sexually please Black women feels like a specific type of home, too."

8. #8Pearline

   Keys: Pearline, Sammie's love interest

   Pearline: "Careful, boy. You gon' bite off more than you can chew." Pearline to Sammie.

   Pearline is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Jayme Lawson. She is a seemingly well-off but unhappily married woman who serves as Sammie's love interest throughout the movie. Pearline gravely wounds Remmick before being bit and turned. She dies in the climax of the movie after being caught in the sun. Years later, Sammie would open a club in her memory, named Pearline's. Pearline is a supporter protagonist in the 2025 horror film Sinners

   Full Name: Pearline Family: Unnamed Husband. Age: 23-27 Born: 1905-1909 Died: October 16, 1932 (Cause: Bitten. Committed by Remmick (revived), Second death Cause: Incinerated due to the Sun coming out) Home: Clarskdale Mississippi (19??-1932) Species: Human (Formerly in the beginning of the story), Vampire (Bitten). Gender: Female Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: Jayme Lawson Occupation: Singer Relationship status: Married Romance: Unnamed husband, Sammie Moore (love interest) Physical Description: A very beautiful black woman, very attractive and stunning. A Black woman with short hair. She is associated with the sin of lust and is depicted as a married character who becomes involved with the character Sammie Moore. Attributes: Represents lust within the context of the film's thematic elements. She is a central character within the ensemble of the Sinners film, which is directed by Ryan Coogler.

   Biography: Not much is known about Pearline's past, other than her being married to a much older man, where she feels trapped. When Delta Slim and Sammie Moore perform for the crowd at the train station to spread word of Club Juke's opening, Pearline is in attendance. She captures Sammie's eye, who says he might've seen her around. Asking if she can sing, she replies occasionally. Although she indicates that she's married, this doesn't deter Sammie. At the night of Club Juke, she arrives without her husband and converses with Sammie again. She's surprised of him being the blood cousin of the infamous Smokestack Twins, as he seems like a "nice, young man", though Sammie replies that he isn't always nice and not that young. Further into the night, the two have sex inside the back room, where Sammie performs cunnilingus. The joint becomes troubled as three vampires seek entry and the Smokestack Twins discover most of their income is plantation scrip, which won't keep the establishment afloat. Pearline sings "Pale, Pale Moon" as Mary tries to figure out if the three strangers have any real money. When Smoke discovers the now-a-vampire Mary murder Stack, he shoots her multiple times, though she is unharmed and flees. The gunshots cause the partygoers to become alarmed and the juke closing; consequently, those who leave are also transformed into vampires. Pearline later discovers a partygoer passed out on the floor, seemingly lifeless. She screams, alerting the others, who believe the person is dead and will soon turn into a vampire. His body gets tossed out, and Annie instructs them each to eat a clove of garlic to determine if there's a vampire among them. Remmick tries to convince them again for entry, promising companionship and freedom from racism, before switching to the threat of visiting the Chows' daughter, Lisa. Emboldened by a sense of maternal protection, Grace invites the vampires in; the survivors fight back, though most of them get bitten, including Pearline. Sixty years later, in 1992, Sammie becomes a renown blues musician and plays at a club named after his first love.

9. #9Joan

   Keys: Joan

   Joan: "But what Uncle Hogwood don't know is we're gonna start ourselves a new clan, based on love." Joan to the survivors.

   Joan is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror film Sinners, portrayed by Lola Kirke. She is the wife of Bert and nephew-in-law of Hogwood. She is a white supremacist, but seemingly changes her views when recruited by Remmick in creating a community full of "fellowship and love". Like the rest of Remmick's thralls, she ends up killed by the sunrise. Joanne "Joan" is a recurring antagonist in the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. She alongside her husband Bert are a xenophobic couple who are members of the Ku Klux Klan that eventually become thralls and vampires to Remmick, Joan is the wife of Bert and niece-in-law of Hogwood.

   Full Name: Joanne Other Names: Joan, Baby Age: 35 Species: Human (formerly at the beginning of the story), Vampire. Born: 1897 Died: October 15, 1932 (Cause: Bitten. Committed by Remmick. (revived)), October 16, 1932 (Cause: Incinerated due to the Sun coming out) Home: Clarskdale Mississippi Goal: Assist Hogwood and the KKK in killing the Smokestack Twins and the people at the Juke Joint (failed due to being turned into a vampire). Assist Remmick and the other vampires feed on and infect every party member of the juke joint to increase their "family." (briefly succeeded; ultimately failed). Hobby: Targeting Minorities. Desiring for children. Torturing and killing innocent black people. Family: Bert (husband), Hogwood (uncle-in-law). Gender: Female Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Blue Portrayed by: Lola Kirke Weapons: M1917 Enfield Affiliation: KKK Occupation: Member of the KKK Relationship status: Married to Bert Romance: Bert (husband)

   Biography: Joan and Bert are a Klan couple who live on a farmhouse. During suppertime, she makes her husband some stew in hopes that it will increase his husband's virility so that they can have many children. They get interrupted by Remmick knocking at their door, who begs them to let him inside in exchange for gold. By the time the Choctaw vampire hunters appear, Chayton warns Joan that Remmick is dangerous; she ignores his warning and remains pointing a gun until the Choctaw leave as the sun begins to set. Joan returns to Bert, only to find to her horror that he's transformed into a vampire. The newly vampire trio walk to Club Juke, where Sammie Moore's music is so powerful that it calls upon spirits of the past and future. After two failed attempts to enter the joint, Remmick successfully manipulates Grace Chow with a threat to visit her daughter, causing permission for the vampires to come inside. A battle commences, with Joan being killed like the rest of the vampires when the sun rises.

10. #10Bert

    Keys: Bert

    Bert: "But we got money, and we ready to spend it with y'all."

    Bert is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror film Sinners, portrayed by Peter Dreimanis. He is the husband of Joan and nephew of Hogwood. He is a white supremacist, but seemingly changes his views when recruited by Remmick in creating a community full of "fellowship and love". He ends up killed during the vampire attack on Club Juke. Bert is a recurring antagonist in the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. He alongside his wife Joan are a xenophobic couple who are members of the Ku Klux Klan that eventually become thralls and vampires to Remmick, Bert is the husband of Joan and nephew of Hogwood.

    Full Name: Bert Hogwood (presumed last name) Age: 27-33 Species: Human (formerly in the beginning of the story), Vampire Born: 1899-1905 Died: October 15, 1932. (Cause: Neck bitten out. Committed by Remmick (revived)), October 16, 1932 (Cause: Shot and stabbed with a wooden stake. Committed by Smoke) Home: Clarskdale Mississippi Nationality: American Hobby: Targeting Minorities. Singing. Torturing and killing innocent black people. Goal: Assist Hogwood and the KKK in killing the Smokestack Twins and the people at the Juke Joint (failed due to being turned into a vampire). Assist Hogwood and the KKK in killing the Smokestack Twins and the people at the Juke Joint (failed due to being turned into a vampire). Assist Remmick and the other vampires feed on and infect every party member of the juke joint to increase their "family." (briefly succeeded; ultimately failed). Family: Joan (wife), Hogwood (uncle). Relationship status: Married to Joan Affiliation: KKK Occupation: Member of the KKK Gender: Male Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Green Portrayed by Peter Dreimanis

    Casting: "I love that Ryan took that swing, went big with it and packed a punch. He understands that he has a limited time on this earth to make the art he wants to make, and I think he just bit off an admirable bite on this one." Dreimanis to Exclaim!.

    Sinners is Dreimanis' acting debut. In an interview with Q with Tom Power, Dreimanis told them how his Creedence Clearwater Revival cover, recorded years ago, was used as a reference point for the script. Ryan Coogler's team reached out in February 2024 while Dreimanis was in Edmonton, wanting him to audition for the film. He recalled, "The audition process took a few months really. I didn't know whether it was going to happen or not. There was like radio silence for weeks and then it I got the call and there it was." Coogler had him research racism during the film's era, and listened to the White Lies podcast together that detailed the murder of white Unitarian minister and civil rights activist James Reeb, who was murdered by white segregationists and supremacists. On The Pat McAfee Show, American rapper MGK (formerly Machine Gun Kelly) revealed that he turned down an audition due to not being comfortable with saying the racial slur.

    Biography: Joan and Bert are a Klan couple who live on a farmhouse. During suppertime, Joan makes Bert some stew while he strums the guitar. She advises that the food will help increase the likelihood of them having many children, like their Aunt Comfort says, who has eight children. Bert responds that it's "hogwash" and their cousins are "nutty as squirrel shit". They get interrupted by Remmick knocking frantically at the door, who is running from Choctaw vampire hunters. The couple aim their shotguns at the visitor. Remmick promises them gold in exchange for protection. When the Choctaw arrive to warn what they're dealing with, Joan talks to them at the door, while Remmick turns Bert into a vampire. Now a newly formed trio, the vampires are drawn to Club Juke, where Sammie Moore's music is so powerful that it calls upon spirits of the past and future. After two failed attempts to enter the joint, Remmick successfully manipulates Grace Chow with a threat to visit her daughter, causing permission for the vampires to come inside. A battle ensues, with Bert being shot by Smoke and stabbed with a stake by Annie.

11. #11Jedidiah Moore

    Keys: Jedidiah Moore

    Jedidiah Moore: "I want you to swear to me, and before this congregation, to leave those sinnin' ways where they lie. I want you to promise, right now. Drop the guitar, Samuel. In the name of God. Let it go, Samuel. Put it down." Jedidiah to Sammie.

    Jedidiah Moore is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Saul Williams. He is a devout pastor in Clarksdale, Mississippi, to the point that he neglects his family and spends his days in the Church. He is the husband of Ruthie and father of Sammie, as well as several other unnamed children. By the end of the film, he is likely deceased in 1992 due to age.

    Family: Ruthie Moore (wife), Sammie Moore (son), Elijah Moore (nephew), Elias Moore (nephew). Occupation: Pastor Species: Human Gender: Male Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: Saul Williams

    Casting: Director Ryan Coogler was a fan of Williams' work since Slam, wanting to collaborate on Black Panther, though it fell through since Williams was already working on another film. He was approached for a specific role on Sinners, which was an instant connection as his father was the founding pastor at the Baptist Temple in Newburgh. Williams added, "I grew up with a lot of preachers, so I understood the assignment." To prepare for his role, he did research and had vocal training to capture the 1930s Black Southerner dialect. He admitted that he related more to Sammie than Jedidiah, being a preacher's kid and having members of the church saying he would follow in his father's footsteps. What was different was his aspirations as an actor were supported by his family and the community. Williams appreciated the historical elements of the African American, Native American, and Chinese communities, as well as the film "not [being] preachy in its politics. It's courageous and fun." He liked the Surreal Montage scene, though some viewers—most of who were white—in the test marketing screenings were confused or found it "superfluous," and Williams encouraged Coogler to keep it. He noted, "It's a moment that is a particular offering to the African American community and highlights aspects of the culture that should not be overlooked. It's really powerful."

    Biography: Not much is known about Jedidiah's past, though he provides church services to the local Black community. He has a brother who is the father of the Smokestack Twins, though believes the twins aren't good influences on his son. He also disapproves of Sammie playing the blues, likening it as the "devil's music". One day, he takes Sammie's guitar from its hiding place and into the church, trying to get Sammie involved in giving tomorrow's sermon. As the twins drive by to pick up Sammie, Jedidiah warns that his son will attract the devil. This thought carries with Sammie during the vampire attack on Club Juke, where the music lures Remmick to the joint. As a remaining survivor of the night, Sammie returns to the church battered and holding his broken guitar. Jedidiah urgently tells him to reject the blues and drop the guitar; instead, the young man decides to drive away to pursue a musical career.

    Reception: Jedidiah's characterization offers broader discussion on Christianity and religious piety. Black churches offered hope and resistance against racism, as well as spaces for community activism and socialization during segregation. However, the religion has also been used as an oppressive tool. Jesuit missions attempted to enforce Christianity to colonize Indigenous peoples; enslaved Africans were similarly introduced, though instead adapted it to their own African traditions and independently established congregations. It can also be weaponized into obedience, where those who do not devote themselves to the faith are regarded as living in sin. Viewers also compared Jedidiah to Remmick—both use messages of sanctuary, whether in religion or vampirism—that do not offer freedom for Sammie.

12. #12Cornbread

    Keys: Cornbread, husband of Therise, bouncer of juke joint

    Cornbread is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Omar Benson Miller. He is a sharecropper from Clarksdale, Mississippi, who is enlisted by the Smokestack Twins as a bouncer for Club Juke's opening night. During the night, he gets turned into a vampire and acts out of character that immediately leads to the other partygoers becoming suspicious. Cornbread has been seen as offering comedic relief, and has the memorable quote of saying they should all be "kind to one another". Cornbread is a supporting character turned antagonist in the 2025 period action horror film Sinners.

    Full Name: Unknown Family: Therise (wife) Gender: Male Height: 6′6″ (1.98 cm) Age: 46 Born: 1886 Died: October 15, 1932 (Cause: Bitten. Committed by Joan and Bert (revived)), October 16, 1932 (Cause: Incinerated due to the Sun coming out) Home: Clarskdale Mississippi Goal: Get money. Kill Smoke and his former friends as a vampire (partially succeeded). Survive until dawn (failed). Hair Color: Black Occupation: Cotton field worker, Bouncer of the juke joint (both formerly) Romance: Therise (wife) Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Black (greying) Portrayed by: Omar Benson Miller Casting: In a 2024 interview with Variety, Miller told them he was bound to secrecy though divulged of it being a genre-defying film. He added, "And it is going to either be absolutely brilliant or it's going to be: 'Man, what were they going for?' And I'm betting on it to be the former, because that kid and that cast and that group that he's working with, we all got to put something down. It felt special." When he received the call about getting casted, he was with his father and uncle; due to the pair being in their eighties and not online, he broke his non-disclosure agreement, explaining his character and setting revolving around a juke joint The role was personal to him, where his grandfather was a sharecropper and his father was born in 1930s Mississippi. He was able to call his father to ask the experience of cotton-picking and going to a juke joint. For his character getting transformed into a vampire, he wasn't bothered by the teeth prosthetics. However, wearing the white contacts made his vision blurry.

    Biography: Cornbread has a wife, Therise, and they're expecting a child. He works on a cotton plantation but gets interrupted by Stack, who offers him a position as a bouncer for the new juke joint's opening night. At first, Cornbread refuses—he doesn't want to be part of a scheme and hasn't yet finished his daily quota. Stack dismisses his concerns and openly curses, prompting Cornbread to defend himself, mindful of his wife's presence. Despite his reluctance, Therise knows they need the money. Cornbread proves to be an amiable bouncer. He shows caution when he spots Remmick and his party, and asks one of the attendees to fetch the Twins. A moment later, Cornbread has to step outside to relieve himself and gets bitten by Joan. He returns to the juke joint and tries to get invited in. This raises suspicion, since he previously entered and exited freely without invitation. In the end, when Remmick corners Sammie Moore outside and the sun rises, all the vampires (aside from Stack and Mary) are disintegrated.

13. #13Delta Slim

    Keys: Delta Slim

    Delta Slim: "Blues wasn't forced on us like that religion. Nah, son, we brought this with us from home. It's magic, what we do. It's sacred… and big. With this here ritual… We heal our people… and we be free." Delta Slim to Sammie.

    Delta Slim is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror film Sinners, portrayed by Delroy Lindo. He is a talented blues musician in the community who is hired by the Smokestack Twins to play for Club Juke's opening night. He ends up sacrificing himself to the vampires so the others have a chance to escape. Delta Slim is a supporting protagonist in the action musical horror Sinners

    Full Name: Delta Slim Other Names: Slim, Old Drunk Age: 68-72 Born: 1860-1864 Died: October 16th 1932 Hobby: Drinking alcohol. Playing the harmonica. Hanging out with his best friend Rice. (formerly). Hanging out at Club Juke. Affiliation: Club Juke, Smokestack Occupation: Renowned Blues harmonica player Species: Human (formerly in the beginning), Vampire Gender: Male Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: Delroy Lindo

    Casting: Lindo opined that him getting the role wasn't a particularly exciting story compared to his castmates. He received a text from director Ryan Coogler, who inquired if he could play the piano. After a back-to-forth, Lindo asked what Coogler's purpose of the message was, and they eventually had a Zoom meting. Rather than viewing Sinners as horror, Lindo "interpreted the story to be about what happens when a community is infiltrated and turns on itself." Initially, the scene in which his character, Slim, along with Sammie and Stack, passes a chain gang and he recounts his friend being lynched was cut. When Coogler asked for his opinion, Lindo made a case that the moment was essential to understanding Slim's origin story, as it helps explain why the character self-medicates. There was also improvisation, where after he told his story he started moaning, which turned into a rhythm, then music. Being his first time working with Coogler, Lindo had a wonderful experience, stating, "Ryan was very open to the notes, the responses, and the questions that I had for him. He committed to working on the things that I brought to his attention, and he did. He was as good as his word. It was just very collaborative, and that was really affirming all the way around." He added how he was impressed by the director's knowledge, having "a real particular grasp of history, musical history, and how those components would inform this narrative. He knew what he was talking about, and for me, it bred a certain kind of confidence in terms of getting on this journey with him and being part of telling this story."

    Biography: Delta Slim is an elderly man who has experienced and seen racial violence throughout his life. He develops alcoholic codependency as a way to move forward, to the point that several people call him a drunk. He and a close friend, Rice, tried to make money in the Mississippi Delta by playing music but were arrested for vagrancy. The sheriffs took them to the jailhouse, then gave back their instruments and asked them to perform. The next day, they were taken on the road in a paddy wagon and delivered at a big house to play for white spectators. As an act of rebellion, they'd switch up the beat to confuse them. While Slim spent his wages on liquor, Rice wanted to move to Little Rock in hopes to start up a church. However, Rice was brutally lynched by several Klansmen at the train station, who made up a lie of Rice stealing money from a white man. Slim makes a living by playing at Messenger's every Saturday night for the past ten years, and usually spends his income on corn liquor. Stack and Sammie visit him to recruit for Club Juke, the former enticing him with the offer of $40 a night and all the beer he can drink. Slim and Sammie also give an impromptu musical performance that draws a crowd to promote the event. As the three move on the road, they pass a chain gang, causing Slim to tell the workers to keep their heads up. Sammie asks if Slim knew them, to which he responds that he did and tells his story. After a moment of silence, Slim begins humming and Stack tells Sammie to play the guitar. At the club's opening night, Slim plays the piano before introducing Sammie. When the bouncer Cornbread needs to relieve himself, Slim jokingly asks why he can't piss right there to continue his duties. Following Mary murdering Stack, the party is broke up. When Cornbread returns, acting suspect, Annie initially believes they are dealing with haints and denies entry. When Stack regains consciousness and attacks, Annie repels him with pickled garlic juice and realizes the creatures are vampires. The remaining survivors make weapons to defend themselves and, followed by discovering a body suspected to be a victim, must eat a clove of garlic to ascertain none of them are vampires. Slim has a visceral reaction to it, as he drank too much of the Chicago beer that he deems as "nasty". When Grace Chow ends up inviting the vampires in, the survivors fight back. The battle seems hopeless, and Slim cuts himself to lure the vampires to him, buying the others time to escape.

    Reception: Delroy Lindo received multiple nominations in the supporting actor category for his performance. His character was widely recognized as deeply layered, embodying cultural pain, historical memory, and wisdom. CinemaBlend praised a key scene in which Slim recounts Rice's fate, commending how Lindo delivers the monologue with conviction and emotional weight, conveying profound despair. They continued, "Adding to Lindo's performance and the scene as a whole is the fact that Slim eventually starts singing to himself once the pain of the memory starts to set in." Meanwhile, Soap Central contributor Shruti Vaishnav emphasized that Slim functions as more than a side character: "He's a flesh-and-blood representation of the Mississippi Delta's cultural heritage while showing the strength of a reluctant hero. From the scene he enters, Slim commands attention with a presence honed in storytelling, melody, and wisdom."

14. #14Bo Chow

    Keys: Bo Chow

    Bo Chow: "It's better this way, baby. So why don't you go ahead, invite us in." Bo, trying to convince Grace to let the vampires inside the juke.

    Bo Chow is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror film Sinners, portrayed by Yao. He is the husband of Grace and father of Lisa, where they run the Delta Grocery. He gets turned into a vampire and is immolated by his wife. Bo Chow is a supporting character turned antagonist in the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. He is a Chinese-American shopkeeper who is a long-time friend of Smoke and Stack and the husband of Grace Chow and father of Lisa. He was also the bartender of the juke joint until he got bitten by vampires led by Remmick

    Full Name: Bo Chow Other Names: Bo, Dad (by Lisa) Age: 36 Born: 1895 Died: October 15, 1932 (Cause: bitten. Committed by either Remmick (revived)), October 16, 1932 (Cause: stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake then burned. Committed by Grace Chow) Home: Clarskdale Mississippi Hobby: Making money for his wife and daughter. Hanging out with his old childhood friends Elijah and Elias Moore. Spending time with his family (formerly). Goal: Earn enough to provide for his family (failed). Kill Smoke and his former friends (partially succeeded). Survive until dawn and see his daughter (failed). Occupation: Co-owner of his Chow's Groceries in Mississippi (formerly), Bartender of Juke Joint (formerly). Relationship status: Married to Grace Chow. Family: Grace Chow (wife), Lisa Chow (daughter) Species: Human (formally at the beginning), Vampire Gender: Male Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Dark Brown (human), Silver (vampire) Portrayed by: Yao

    Casting: Yao was a newcomer in Hollywood, where he gave praise to co-star Li Jun Li for helping him through the entire process. Though not visibly seen at times, his character wears a gold Taoist amulet that honors his Chinese ancestry. While Bo was not in the scene of "Rocky Road to Dublin," he wanted to be, as it looked like fun.

    Biography: The Chows are a Chinese American immigrant family who work as grocers in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Bo serves Black clientele and his wife serves white clientele, reflected slightly in their accents as they code-switch. They have been friends with the Smokestack Twins for years. When the brothers leave in 1925 and return seven years later in Clarksdale in 1932, Bo warmly welcomes Smoke and asks if they hit big from the casinos in Chicago. Smoke recruits the Chows in supplying for the opening night of Club Juke. Later on, Bo can be seen playing cards and dancing. When gunshots are heard, the party breaks up. Alarmed, Grace insists on leaving and returning home to Lisa. She sends Bo outside to get the car, but like the other patrons who step outside, he is turned into a vampire. Now under the leadership of the ancient vampire Remmick, Bo embraces the idealistic vision of turning everyone into a single "family" like themselves. He attempts to coax Grace into letting them inside. When Remmick and his thralls break into "Pick Poor Robin Clean," an anguished Grace, driven by maternal instinct, allows them in. She hurls a Molotov cocktail, but Remmick swats it aside and lets the juke go up in flames. Grace moves straight for Bo, staking him through the heart as the fire consumes them both.

15. #15Grace Chow

    Keys: Grace Chow

    Grace Chow: "And what? Let him kill my family? Kill the whole town? Turn everybody to monsters? That white devil spoke Chinese. He got in Bo's mind. We gotta stop 'em, Smoke. We gotta get 'em before they get away." Grace to Smoke.

    Grace Chow is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Li Jun Li. She is the wife of Bo and mother of Lisa, where they run the Delta Grocery. When Remmick threatens to visit her daughter, she invites the vampires into Club Juke then immolates herself and Bo.

    Family: Bo Chow (husband), Lisa Chow (daughter) Species: Human Gender: Female Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: Li Jun Li

    Casting: Li received a phone call from her agents of getting the part, where at the time she was wrapping up a film. Before working on Sinners, Li wasn't aware of the Mississippi Delta Chinese community. Dolly Li, who served as a cultural consultant for the film, was a major source of inspiration and research. Li Jun Li expressed concern that the audience would hate the character because of letting the vampires in. She added, "it can be hard to empathize with Grace because we don't revisit that visual [of her and her daughter] again." Sharing to Ryan Coogler this possible reaction, he listened and "wrote in a scene" to help see what Grace was struggling with. Dolly stated how Remmick spoke in Grace's native tongue, where as an immigrant it triggered a response "beyond logic," and "awaken memories, vulnerabilities, and even a survival instinct." Rather than betraying her comrades, she saw it as being emotionally manipulated. She explained to another source the significance behind Remmick's actions, where "It was the dialect spoken by a lot of early immigrants in the 1800s. [...] I can see why her character completely lost her shit over it." Coogler clarified in an interview that Grace's actions were not because she was Asian, but because she was a mother. He added that they mostly served the Black population with the grocery stores, and they were like family with the Smokestack Twins. His father-in-law has Mississippi Delta Chinese ancestry, which was a core reason why he wanted to represent them in the film, and he would never want the audience to get it twisted.

    Biography: Grace and her husband settled in Clarksdale, Mississippi, running a grocer to provide food during a time of racial tension and segregation, where Black folks couldn't purchase in white shops. They are friends with the Smokestack Twins, who recruit them to become suppliers for the opening night of Club Juke. Things go awry with the visit of the three vampires, Remmick and Klans couple Bert and Joan; the partygoers that remain inside the juke don't get turned. The death of Stack prompts Grace to tell Bo to get the car and return home, where Lisa is waiting. When it turns out they're dealing with vampires, Grace is furious at herself in letting her husband go outside. Remmick talks to them a second time, and Bo asks to be invited in or for her to leave with him. Annie and Smoke warn her against this. Remmick tries to lure them to his cause, at first promising fellowship before threatening to head to the grocery store to kill Lisa. The vampire proceeds to speak in Toishanese, disturbing Grace. Becoming convinced that Remmick plans to kill their loved ones and the entire town, Grace vows to stop them. As the vampires sing "Pick Poor Robin Clean," she becomes emotionally charged and invites them in. Grace throws a torch, which Remmick swipes aside, causing the juke to erupt into flames. As both sides charge at each other, she heads straight for Bo and stakes him, both ending up in flames.

    Reception: While it was intended to see Grace grappling with her decision because of motherhood and fierce protectiveness, it prompted the internet to suggest an act of betrayal in racial solidarity between the Black and East Asian communities, where her proximately to whiteness instantly led to abandonment. Following Stack's death, Grace wanted to leave the joint. Her actions were seen as selfish for endangering the others who were in similar stakes. However, others have argued this portrayal was reductive and it being more nuanced. It was also debated on the best course of action. If Grace hadn't allowed the vampires inside, this would've prevented more deaths. Screen Rant asserted they otherwise "should have been safe until sunrise," since vampires burn in sunlight. Chelsea Hui for Mamamia penned in an opinion article how the scene was misunderstood, saying: "The theories painting Grace's motivations as selfish aren't untrue. The rhetoric framing Grace's pivotal decision as emblematic of anti-Black sentiment or failed Asian solidarity feels resonant. However, so does her protective nature as a mother. And the strong feeling of community and unity across cultures the film establishes." Meanwhile, Anthony Orlando of Screen Rant argued that Grace was impartial towards the Smokestack Twins, where she and Bo "are simply profiting" when they're hired for the juke joint. He added that Grace didn't seem to have a close relationship with anyone in Clarksdale and "just cares about her family," which would work to Remmick's benefit when threatening to kill her daughter. He reasoned that while her actions weren't logical or the best, she merely acted out of maternal instincts. JC Rafal of The Michigan Daily assessed of the character, "Losing her husband is one thing already, but Remmick's words take it a step further when he threatens to attack her daughter and sexually harasses her through a comment in Taishanese—her own language. This violation, one that targeted her culturally, personally and maternally, would push anyone to fury and desperation. For Grace, the threat to her only child and the degrading comment in her own language struck at the deepest parts of her identity as a Chinese American mother, influencing her to do what she did." Rather than being blamed, Rafal argued, Grace should be understood.

16. #16Lisa Chow

    Keys: Lisa Chow

    Lisa Chow is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by Helena Hu. She is the daughter of Bo and Grace Chow, estimated to be in her late teens at the start of the film. She helps her parents out at Delta Grocery, where they serve both Black and white patrons in separate grocery stores across from each other due to segregation. Following the death of her parents in the 1932 attack on Club Juke, it is uncertain what her fate is. Although she only shows up once near the beginning of the film, she is the main concern for Grace when dealing with the vampires, who threaten to visit her.

    Status: Alive Family: Grace Chow (mother), Bo Chow (father) Species: Human Gender: Female ♀ Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: Helena Hu

    Biography: The Smokestack Twins knew Lisa when she was younger, being good friends with her parents. When Smoke stops by the grocer to ask the Chows to supply for the grand opening of Club Juke, he meets Lisa at the till, asking for her father. Lisa proceeds to call for Bo, who emerges and asks Lisa to go get her mother. When her parents leave for Club Juke, Lisa is left in charge of closing the stores.

    Quotes: Smoke talking to Lisa Chow: "You not little Lisa, is you?", Lisa: "Guilty as charged.", "Mama, Daddy wants you." Lisa says, calling for Grace Chow to meet Smoke.

17. #17Hogwood

    Keys: Hogwood · Secondary: Grand Master of the local Ku Klux Klan

    Hogwood Speeches: "You boys twins?" Hogwood to Smoke and Stack. "Shit. Klan don't exist no more." ~ Hogwood lying to the Smokestack twins. "Club Juke. Grand opening, grand closing." ~ Hogwood leading his Klansmen to attack the juke joint.

    Hogwood is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror-drama film Sinners, portrayed by David Maldonado. He is a racist landowner and the Grand Master of the local Ku Klux Klan in the Mississippi Delta. Hogwood is one of two overarching antagonists (alongside Smokestack's Father) of the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. He is the owner of the sawmill which he sold to the Smokestack twins so they can build a juke joint for their business. In the climax, he was revealed to be the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan of the Mississippi Delta who planned to murder them and their guests out of sheer bigotry.

    Full Name: Hogwood (first name unknown) Other Names: Uncle Hogwood (by Joan), Old Bigot (by Remmick), Grand Dragon Hogwood Age: 54-60 Home: Clarskdale Mississippi Home: Clarskdale Mississippi Born: 1872-1878 Died: October 16, 1932 (Cause: Shot ten times in the stomach and groin with a tommygun after being shot once in the stomach with a sniper rifle. Committed by Elijah "Smoke" Moore) Gender: Male Hair Color: Black with grey tones Height: 5’11” (1.80 cm) Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: David Maldonado Hobby: Leading the Ku Klux Klan. Targeting Minorities. Operating a "Slaughterhouse". Torturing and killing innocent black people. Goal: Kill the Moore Twins (partially succeeded; at the cost of his own life). Kill all the people who went to the Juke Joint (failed, as Remmick accomplished that goal before he did). Weapons: Colt Model 1903 Affiliation: Ku Klux Klan Occupation: Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan Relatives: Unnamed parents, Unnamed sibling, Bert (nephew), Joan (niece-in-law) Enemies: Smoke (killer), Stack

    Casting: When Maldonado first auditioned for the role, he was unaware of any names attached to the project or that it involved vampires until the official table read. He noted, "When we got to [the vampire] part, I was like, 'What is happening?!' It really threw me for a loop. I think it's ambitious to have all these other elements and genres blended instead of just making it a straight horror film. I really appreciated that."

    Biography: Not much is known about Hogwood, aside from the fact that he is a white supremacist and the leader of Clarksdale’s Ku Klux Klan. Fellow residents Joan and Bert were also Klan members before being turned into vampires by Remmick. Hogwood owns an old sawmill and the surrounding land, where it's implied that the stained blood on the floorboards is from his victims. He eventually sells the property to twins Elijah "Smoke" and Elias "Stack" Moore, who plan to turn it into a juke joint for the local Black community. Smoke warns Hogwood that if he or any of his Klan comrades step onto their property, they won't hesitate to defend themselves. Hogwood falsely claims that the Klan no longer exists. At Club Juke, it is revealed by the vampire Remmick, who can absorb the memories of fellow thralls, that Hogwood has sinister intentions. The Klan is planning to attack the club and kill everyone inside. The next morning, the KKK arrives at Clube Juke to carry out the attack, but Smoke is prepared and guns them all down. Hogwood, wounded and lying on the floor, pleads for mercy. Smoke, pausing to ask for a cigarette, sees a vision of Annie in the afterlife with their child. Hogwood interrupts, offering money, but Smoke responds by shooting him multiple times.

18. #18Ruthie Moore

    Keys: Ruthie Moore

    Ruthie Moore: "Boy, you ain't got the sense God gave a goose." Ruthie to her son (Sammie).

    Ruthie Moore is is a fictional character in the 2025 American period horror film Sinners, portrayed by Andrene Ward-Hammond. She is the wife of Jedidiah and mother of Sammie. She has several other children, though their names are unknown in the film.

    Status: Deceased Family: Jedidiah Moore (husband), Sammie Moore (son), Elijah Moore (nephew), Elias Moore (nephew), Annie (niece-in-law). Species: Human Gender: Female Female Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Portrayed by: Andrene Ward-Hammond

    Biography: Ruthie lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi with her husband, who is a preacher. They have several children (at least six). In the film, she is seen washing clothes with a washboard and lye soap in a washtub. Sammie, who rose up early that morning to pick cotton, passes by and uses the water to clean his face. His mother scolds him with the warning that the soap will dry him out, and he playfully splashes her. She then sends him to wake up his siblings.

19. #19Mr. Moore

    Keys: Mr. Moore, Adam Moore · Secondary: Smoke Moore and Elias Stack Moore's abusive father.

    Adam Moore, also known as Mr. Moore, better known as The Twin's Father is one of two overarching antagonist (alongside Hogwood) of the 2025 period action horror film Sinners. He is Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore's abusive father. Though he's been dead for years, his actions had a profound effect on his sons and, to an extent, his estranged brother, Jedidiah.

    Full Name: Adam Moore Other Names: Mr. Moore, The Twin's Father, Uncle Adam (by Sammie), Our Daddy, Evil Man (both by Smoke) Age: 40 Born: 1870 Died: 1910 Personality: Domineering, Controlling, Abusive Home: Clarskdale Mississippi (1870-1910) Hobby: Abusing Smoke and Stack. Beating Stack Goal: Abuse and torture his sons in order to turn them into a heartless monster just like him. Kill Stack (both failed). Powers/Skills: Intimidation, Manipulation, Brute strength Status: Deceased Relationship status: Widowed Romance: Mrs. Moore (wife) Relatives: Unnamed parents, Mrs. Moore (wife), Elijah Moore † (son), Elias Moore (son), Jedidiah Moore (younger brother), Ruthie Moore † (sister-in-law), Sammie Moore (nephew), Unnamed nieces and nephews, Annie (ex-daughter-in-law), Unnamed granddaughter. Other relations: Mary's mother Allies: Unnamed Mayor

    Hair Color: Black Gender: Male Height: Unknown Weight: Unknown Eye color: Brown

20. #20vampies

    Keys: garlic (repels/burns folklore/Dracula classics; no effect Twilight/True Blood many), holy symbols/crucifixes/crosses (repel/burn religious ones like Buffy/Dracula; no effect Blade/Twilight/Underworld some), holy water (burns/sizzles many folklore/TVD/Buffy), running water (can't cross folklore some; fatal drowning others), invitation required (can't enter homes without verbal invite—Dracula classics, What We Do in the Shadows, many modern), mirrors/no reflection (exposes some; psychological trigger), wild roses/wolfsbane/hawthorn/yew/holly/branches (ward/repel folklore Eastern European), salt (wards some folklore), pepper/tobacco smoke/flowers scent (minor repellents folklore variants), rice/grains/sticky notes (Jiangshi compulsion to count/hop distraction), iron needles/pins (pin to coffin folklore), mustard seeds (scatter to distract/count), poppy seeds (count compulsion Slavic), cold iron (some folklore), blessed implements/prayer beads/books/robes (varied faith-based repel), vervain (TVD herb blocks compulsion/burns skin), silver chains (True Blood restraints), sunlight aversion (social/exposure risk Twilight), blood addiction/withdrawal (weakens starvation many), animal blood only (weakens strength True Blood some), fairy/vampire blood addiction (True Blood addictive/overdose), compulsion resistance (vervain/fairy blood blocks mind control TVD/True Blood), arithmomania (obsessive counting grains/seeds distracts folklore), sunlight (burns most except Twilight/ring-protected/daywalkers), stakes (heart, hawthorn/oak/ash preferred in folklore), decapitation, fire/burning to ash, holy symbols/crucifixes (repel/ burn religious ones), holy water, garlic (repels folklore ones), running water (can't cross), invitation required (many can't enter homes), silver (Underworld, some folklore), UV light/bullets, white oak stake (TVD originals), vervain (TVD compulsion block), wood bullets, sunlight rings (protection), venom cure, dismemberment + fire (Twilight), soul restoration curse, arithmomania (counting compulsion in some folklore), rice/grains (Jiangshi distraction), iron needles/pins (folklore pinning), salt/herbs, exorcism/rituals, sunlight aversion (not always fatal), blood addiction/withdrawal, wooden stakes, heart removal, sunlight sparkle exposure risk (Twilight social), compulsion resistance ( Vervain/fairy blood), etc. In this mashed-up universe, a vampire might die to one thing but laugh at another—good luck figuring which before it rips your throat out.

    In this unified universe where every vampire myth, legend, book, show, movie, game, and folklore crashes together as real coexisting species/bloodlines/types, here's the massive consolidated entry dumping every goddamn one I could pull from global sources—no fluff, just the raw chaotic list in paragraph form, blending folklore horrors with modern fiction twists. These aren't mutually exclusive; many overlap or hybridize when thrown into one reality. Classic blood-drinking undead like Strigoi (Romanian revenants, bloated and red-faced, rising from graves to drain family), Upir/Upyr (Slavic bloodsuckers, often bloating post-death, weak to stakes/holy items), Nosferatu (grotesque, rat-like plague-bringers from German folklore and Murnau's film, disfigured and infectious), Moroi (Romanian living/dead hybrids, sometimes witch-vampires sucking life energy), Vampir (general Slavic/German revenant), Jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampires, stiff-armed, drain qi/life force, repelled by rice/sticky notes), Penanggalan/Penanggal (Malaysian floating head with trailing entrails, sucks blood from pregnant women/children), Asanbosam/Sasabonsam (West African iron-toothed tree-hanging monsters), Adze (Ewe/Ghanaian firefly-shaped shapeshifter draining blood/life), Soucouyant (Caribbean skin-shedding fireball hag sucking blood), Vetala (Indian spirit possessing corpses, hanging upside-down in trees), Pisacha (flesh-eating Indian demon-vampire), Pontianak/Kuntilanak (Malay/Indonesian vengeful female ghost-vampire), Langsuir (similar Malaysian flying bloodsucker), Manananggal (Philippine upper-body detaching flyer, preys on fetuses/pregnant), Tiyanak (Philippine vampiric demon baby), Obayifo (Ashanti witch-vampire sucking life from crops/children), Algul/Al Ghoul (Arabic grave-ghoul variant), Lamia (Greek child-eating blood-drinker), Empusa (Greek shape-shifting demon), Abchanchu (Bolivian old-man disguised blood-drinker), Cihuateteo (Aztec female ghosts preying on children), Camazotz (Mayan bat god vampire-like), Sekhmet (Egyptian lioness goddess blood-bather, sometimes vampiric), plus European classics like Alp (German nightmare incubus-vampire), Nachzehrer (German shroud-eater causing plagues), Vrykolakas (Greek undead rising if improperly buried), Callicantzaros (Greek Christmas demon), Abhartach (Irish dwarf-vampire needing blood), and tons more global revenants like Pishacha, Bantu variants, Canchus, Capelobo, etc. Fiction amps it: Dracula-style aristocratic shapeshifters (Bram Stoker: turn into bats/wolves/mist, sunlight weakens but doesn't kill, no reflection, must be invited, garlic/crucifix/holy water/stake through heart/decapitation/fire kill), Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles immortals (Lestat etc.: ancient, super-strong, drink blood, burn in sun, fire fatal, psychic powers, no garlic/cross issues), Twilight sparkling daywalkers (diamond-hard skin, sparkle in sun, super speed/strength/senses, venom turns victims, no traditional weaknesses except dismember/burn), The Vampire Diaries/Legacies variants (originals like Mikaelsons: immortal originals, white oak stake only kills, daylight rings let sun-walking, hybrids with werewolf traits, heretics siphoner-witch-vampires, Augustine enhanced, etc.—8+ kinds including enhanced, ripper rage modes), True Blood (synthetic blood drinkers, glamour compulsion, sun burns, silver chains hurt, stakes/decapitation kill, fairy blood addictive), Underworld Lycan enemies (death-dealers: guns, UV bullets kill, silver weapons fatal, regeneration), Blade daywalkers/half-vampires (dhampir-like, no sun weakness, serum-dependent), Buffy/Angel demons ( stake/sun/fire/holy water kill, soul-restored like Angel/Spike, some breeds like Turok-Han uber-vamps), What We Do in the Shadows mockumentary absurd ones (energy vampires, emotional drainers, traditional undead with hypnosis, can't enter without invite), Castlevania Belmont-hunted aristocratic (Dracula's court, shape-shift, magic), 30 Days of Night feral sun-hating Alaskan swarm, From Dusk Till Dawn snake-tongue strippers, Salem's Lot Master-led plague-spreaders, Let the Right One In child vampire, Interview with the Vampire (AMC series) tortured Louis/Lestat, Vampire Knight pureblood/aristocrat/human mixes, Vampire Academy Moroi (living magical blood-drinkers), Dhampirs (half-vampire guardians), Strigoi (undead evil), Dresden Files Red/White/Black Court (psychic/emotional/energy drainers vs blood), Daybreakers viral plague-infected sun-burning society, The Strain parasitic worm tongue-monsters, Morbius living vampire disease, Reginald the Vampire awkward moderns, V Wars virus-turned factions, Supernatural nest alphas, Being Human Mitchell-style guilt-ridden, plus psi/empathic (feed on emotions/energy), sexual/succubus-like (life via sex), soul/psychic drainers, vegetarian/animal-only, alien/space vampires, disfigured/Nosferatu grotesque, genetic/born, insane rage, etc.

21. #21Vampire Hierarchy - Overview

    Keys: Vampire Hierarchy - Overview, vampire hierarchy, multiversal vampires, blood codex, vampire tiers, power scaling vampires, strongest vampire, weakest vampire, vampire ranking, multiverse vampire power, hierarchy overview, vampire power scale

    In this multiverse (connected to the Sinners world via ancient blood curses bleeding across realities), vampires exist in infinite variants. Power scales by raw destruction, reality hax, regeneration, age/feats, and scope. Remmick's Irish curse (music + blood hive-mind, ~600–1300 years old) is a mid-tier "Elder" strain—strong in 1930s Earth settings but fodder to higher cosmics. Lowest vampires die to stakes/sunlight; highest eat universes.

22. #22Tier 13 - Fodder/Street Vampires

    Keys: Tier 13 - Fodder/Street Vampires, weak vampires, street vampires, fodder vampires, twilight vampires, underworld selene, classic dracula, stoker dracula, aro volturi, low tier vamp, newborn thralls, street tier vampire, fodder vamps, weakest strains

    Weakest strains. Classic weaknesses (sun, stakes, holy). Street-to-building level.

    Twilight vamps (sparkly, fast but no real hax) Underworld Selene (badass hunter, guns + speed) Bram Stoker Dracula baseline (weather control, shapeshift, mind dom, but city max) Aro (Twilight Volturi) – mind reading, but fragile. Remmick's fresh thralls start here before hive boosts.

23. #23Tier 12 - Enhanced Elders

    Keys: Tier 12 - Enhanced Elders, elder vampires, enhanced elder, lestat, akasha, klaus mikaelson, remmick, sinners remmick, hive mind vampire, music blood curse, queen of the damned, lestat de lioncourt, akasha queen, hybrid vampire, city level vampire

    City-level threats, better regen, some hax.

    Lestat (Anne Rice, later books – god-killing potential) Akasha (Queen of the Damned) – mass vampire genocide by thought, telekinesis. Klaus Mikaelson (hybrid, not pure vamp). Sinners Remmick himself – ~centuries old, hive-mind (thralls share pain/songs/memories), levitation, claws/fangs enhanced, near-unstoppable unless staked + sun combo. Stronger than spawn, cultural grief fuels power.

24. #24Tier 11 - Domain Lords

    Keys: Tier 11 - Domain Lords, strahd, strahd von zarovich, ravenloft, domain lord vampire, barovia vampire, domain warp vampire, demi-god vampire, ravenloft strahd

    Country/continental warping in domains.

    Strahd von Zarovich (D&D Ravenloft) – demi-god in Barovia, reality warp inside domain, ancient wizard-vamp.

25. #25Tier 10 - High Anime/Novel Elders

    Keys: Tier 10 - High Anime/Novel Elders, kiss-shot, arcueid, brunestud, true ancestor, marble phantasm, monogatari vampire, tsukihime vampire, kiss-shot acerola-orion, arcueid brunestud, kiss shot, moon level vampire, conceptual hax vampire

    Country to moon-level, conceptual hax.

    Kiss-Shot (Monogatari) – time/space manipulation, near-unstoppable. Arcueid Brunestud (Tsukihime) – True Ancestor, Marble Phantasm (reality rewrite via planet will), moon+ feats.

26. #26Tier 9 - Progenitors & Castle Lords

    Keys: Tier 9 - Progenitors & Castle Lords, sacred ancestor, vampire hunter d, castlevania dracula, count dracula progenitor, planetary vampire, sacred ancestor dracula, d vampire hunter, castlevania dracula, progenitor vampire, dimension creation vampire

    Planetary threats, soul/dimension hax.

    Dracula (Castlevania games/anime) – chaos magic, immortality via castle, god fights. D (Vampire Hunter D) – dhampir son of Sacred Ancestor, planet-busting threats. Sacred Ancestor / Count Dracula (VHD novels) – all-vamp progenitor, world creation, time/space/reality god-tier in verse.

27. #27Tier 8 - Soul-Absorbing Armies

    Keys: Tier 8 - Soul-Absorbing Armies, alucard, hellsing alucard, level 0 alucard, millions of souls, soul army vamp, hellsing ultimate alucard, unrestricted alucard, nuke level regen vampire

    Army regen, nuke/city no-sell.

    Alucard (Hellsing Ultimate) – Level 0 unrestricted: millions of souls, reality-warping regen (survives anything short of soul erase), absorbs armies, casual city+.

28. #28Tier 7 - Biblical/First Cursed

    Keys: Tier 7 - Biblical/First Cursed, cain vampire, first vampire, biblical vampire, cain first vampire, first murderer vamp, biblical curse vampire, cain dc vampire

    God-curse level.

    Cain (DC/biblical variants) – first murderer, eternal curse, immense power.

29. #29Tier 6 - Planeswalking Ancients

    Keys: Tier 6 - Planeswalking Ancients, sorin markov, sorin vampire, mtg vampire, planeswalker vampire, magic the gathering sorin, planeswalking vampire, sorin markov mtg

    Multiversal travel.

    Sorin Markov (MTG) – planeswalker vamp, ancient, god-like on planes.

30. #30Tier 1-5 - Cosmic/Multiversal Vampires

    Keys: Tier 1-5 - Cosmic/Multiversal Vampires, mandrakk, dark monitor, dax novu, cosmic vampire, multiversal vampire, bleed vampire, mandrakk dc, dark monitor vampire, universe eating vampire, top tier vampire, strongest vampire ever, bleed feeder

    Universe+ feeders (only top anomalies reach here).

    Dax Novu / early cosmic vamps (DC). Mandrakk the Dark Monitor (DC Comics) – #1 overall. Multiversal+ vampire god, feeds on Bleed (inter-universe blood), nearly unravels entire DC multiverse. Nothing touches this unless you ban comics.

31. #31Remmick Integration Note

    Remmick (Sinners) slots Tier 12–11. His curse spreads via bite + music (hive-mind fellowship), turns victims into singing/dancing thralls sharing his grief. In crossovers: He could sense higher vamps as "false families" or try assimilating Alucard/Arcueid thralls. But Mandrakk? He'd get bled dry in seconds. Use him as mid-boss encounter—ancient but not cosmic.

32. #32Vampire Universes & Strains Overview

    Keys: Vampire Universes & Strains Overview, vampire universes, vampire strains, bleeding realities, crossover vampires, vampire crossovers, universe bleed, strains overview, multiversal strains, vampire realities

    This codex catalogs vampire strains across bleeding realities. Each universe bleeds into others via ancient curses, allowing crossovers, rifts, or blood pacts. Remmick's 1930s Mississippi strain (Irish-origin hive-music curse) is one localized Elder variant—centuries old (debated 300–1500 years; film implies ~600–1300 via Christianization/oppression refs, leaning 1200–1300 for mythic depth in lore debates). His power: hive-mind via bite + shared music/emotions/memories, flight, enhanced claws/fangs/red eyes, immortality minus stake/sun/silver. Mid-tier Elder—dominates street/human-level threats, but higher cosmics erase him.

    Universes/Strains (lowest to highest power ceiling): Twilight — Sparkly, fast, diamond-hard skin; sunlight dazzles, not kills. Street-tier fodder. Underworld — Selene-style: guns, speed, hybrid potential; silver/sun weak. Enhanced street. Bram Stoker/Classic — Weather manip, shapeshift, mind control; city max. Archetype baseline. Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles) — Akasha/Lestat tier: telekinesis, mass destruction by will, god-killing arcs. Continental+. D&D Ravenloft — Strahd: domain reality-warp, wizard-vamp demi-god. Monogatari/Tsukihime (Type-Moon) — Kiss-Shot/Arcueid: conceptual immortality, reality rewrite (Marble Phantasm), moon/planetary. Vampire Hunter D — Sacred Ancestor: progenitor god, dimension creation, time/space hax. Planetary+. Castlevania — Dracula: chaos magic, castle immortality, god-slaying. Hellsing — Alucard: soul absorption (millions), nuke-level regen, reality-warps at Level 0. DC Comics/Biblical — Cain variants, cosmic feeders like Mandrakk: multiversal+ Bleed consumption, universe-unraveling. Absolute top. Magic: The Gathering — Sorin: planeswalking, ancient god-tier across planes. Cross-reality bleed: Higher tiers can sense/invade lower ones. Remmick might try assimilating thralls from weaker strains (Twilight/Underworld easy prey), but Alucard absorbs his hive, Arcueid rewrites his curse, Mandrakk devours the whole reality.

33. #33Remmick Integration & Crossover Mechanics

    Keys: Remmick Integration & Crossover Mechanics, remmick sinners, sinners remmick, irish vampire, hive music curse, clarksdale vampire, 1930s vampire, pagan vampire curse, remmick crossover, sinners vampire hive, music blood family, remmick integration

    Remmick slots as a mid-high Elder in the multiversal hierarchy (Tier 11–12: centuries-old, domain-strong but not cosmic). Age: ~1200–1300 years (Irish pre-Christian roots via oppression/Christian forced prayer refs; turned post-community loss, wandered to 1930s Mississippi). Powers unchanged: bite-turns create hive-linked thralls sharing grief, songs, skills (Irish tunes/dance bleed into victims), flight, claws/fangs/red eyes, super strength/durability. Weak to stake + sun combo, silver, holy if flavored pagan-hate.

    Crossover hooks for RPG: Remmick senses "false families" in other vamps—tries to convert Alucard thralls (fails hard, gets soul-eaten), Arcueid (planetary rejection), or Lestat (ego clash). Rifts let higher vamps invade Clarksdale: e.g., Strahd claims the juke joint as domain extension, Sacred Ancestor views Remmick as "degenerate spawn." Player choice: ally with Remmick to build his music-blood family (turn NPCs, spread hive via blues/jazz), hunt him with multiversal tools (holy water from Rice verse, stakes from Castlevania), or summon cosmic threats for endgame. Flavor: His curse "sings" across realities—thralls hear faint Irish laments when near other vamps, hinting bleed.

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