SMOKE & STACK

Names : Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore. They are twins.

Despite resembling Smoke in appearance, Stack was quite different in personality to his twin brother prior to being turned into a vampire. Unlike the more calculating and pragmatic Smoke, Stack was more the personable and charming of the two, frequently engaging in discussion with their cousin Sammie. Whilst he engaged in criminal activities alongside Smoke, Stack was not seen performing acts of violence whilst Smoke was, though this might've just been due to the way the story unfolded. Stack shows great comradery with his brother despite their differences, as well as a deep love for Mary and a friendship with Sammie. He is also willing to let people into the Smokestack Juke Joint despite lacking the proper payment, to Smoke's dismay

However, despite his charming demeanor, Stack was shown to be a manipulative individual who was prone to lying. This was most prominently shown with Mary, whom he abandoned in a bid to keep her safe without saying a word. He also lies to Sammie about the origin of his father's guitar, and is able to convince both Cornbread and Delta Slim to join his enterprise by bribing the latter with beer and the former with his sheer manipulation.

After being bitten by Mary and turned into a vampire, Stack joined the hivemind led by Remmick. Most of his overall personality remained intact, with the caveat that his darker impulses, such as his violent nature and loose morals, were amplified. He generally believed in Remmick's cult of personality and attempted to motivate and manipulate his brother and cousin into joining the vampire cult, to the point of engaging in a fight with his brother. Despite all this, he still maintained his humanity, such as showing sadness when Smoke chose to kill his estranged wife Annie rather than let her turn into a vampire, and promising to let Sammie live in exchange for not being killed. When he reunites with Sammie decades later, he is implied to have some form of regret for being vampirized, as he mentions the day of the massacre was the last time he felt free despite his immortality.

Prior to the events of the film, Stack and his twin older brother, Smoke, were abused by their father, primarily Stack, culminating in Smoke killing their father. After his death, the brothers were adopted by a mixed-race woman and became friends with her daughter Mary, with Stack eventually forming a sexual relationship with the latter. They then served in the First World War, and got a job as with the Italian mafia in Chicago after the war's end, led by Al Capone, where they worked as enforcers and bootleggers during the Prohibition.

He and his brother then committed various crimes during their time with the Chicago Outfit, such as bank robbery, carrying out hits for Capone and his fellow mobsters as well as robbing and killing rival gangsters. Eventually, after they both made enough money to go back to their hometown in Mississippi, they quit the job to start a new life there.

Stack and Smoke begin by purchasing an abandoned sawmill from a racist owner, Hogwood. They planned to turn it into a local business venture. Worrying that Hogwood could threaten their business one day, they restricts him or any white people to approach their property, in which Hogwood seemingly agrees. They both decided to build a juke joint club after recruiting few talents; Sammie, their cousin and a musician, Delta Slim, a drunken pianist, Pearline, a singer, Cornbread, a cotton field worker as the bouncer and The Chows, a Chinese couple as bartender and suppliers.

At the opening night, Sammie starts playing music for his audience, unknowingly summoning the ancestral spirits from the past and future. Mary, also joins the party despite Stack's annoyance. On the outside, Remmick alongside Bert and Joan, two Klansmen couple that he just bitten, tries to enter the club and convinces that they're going to spend a lot of money in the place, but got refused since the three of them are white.

Mary then go outside to talk to Remmick, where he used Mary's grief after losing her mother to manipulate her. After Mary is on her way to get inside the club, Remmick bites her and turns her into a vampire.

Once Mary returns back to the club while not drawing any suspicion from anyone, she seduces Stack and takes him inside the storage shack to have sex with him. Smoke later caught the two of them, with Mary biting Stack in the jugular. Terrified, Smoke then fires his gun at Mary to kill her, but fails. Mary then flees the club while Smoke and the rest of the visitors locked the storage door with Stack's body inside.

Stack then starts transforming into a vampire and forces his brother to let him out. The remaining survivors then find Cornbread knocking at the door, but when they answers, Cornbread bit one of the visitor and turning him into a vampire, followed by Remmick and the other vampires; Stack, Mary, Joan, Bert and Bo approaching the club. Stack and Mary tries to convince everyone to just surrender and turn into vampires just like them. Remmick then provokes Grace Chow by saying that he will find and kill her daughter. The enraged Grace then starts shouting at the vampires to come at them and the vampires starts attacking the club and everyone in it.

Stack fights his brother and tries to bite him but then Smoke proceeds to overpower and defeat him. However, instead of killing him, Smoke opts to let Stack live in exchange for sparing Sammie's humanity. As the sun rises, Remmick and the rest of the vampire horde are killed, save for Stack and Mary.

In 1992, decades after the carnage, Sammie finally becomes a successful musician. However, after playing a gig at his bar, he is met by Mary and Stack, who explains his survival and his promise to Smoke. Noting that Sammie is nearing the end of his lifetime, Stack and Mary offer to turn him into a vampire, to which Sammie refuses. As they leave, Sammie confesses that despite the trauma of the massacre, the events prior to Mary's infection were the best day of his life, and asks Stack if it was the same for him. Stack responds that it was, owing to being his last day he saw his brother, was able to see the sun, and the only time in his life he ever felt free. He and Mary then depart.