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Sinners · written by Ryan Coogler · 2025
Scene 7 of 110 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one
In 1932 Mississippi, gifted sharecropper-bluesman Sammie Moore wants to make a life in the blues beyond his preacher father's rules, but the opening night of his cousins' juke joint becomes a siege by a vampire offering the community belonging at the price of its freedom.
A match illuminates woodcuts of musicians summoning the dead, then a red-eyed figure appears at the window.
Chayton's Choctaw search party reaches the farmhouse and warns Joan that the stranger is dangerous.
Joan lies to Chayton, sends the search party away, and returns inside as darkness gathers.
The stranger reveals himself as a vampire after killing Bert, leaving Joan trapped with the thing he has become.
This scene
An abandoned two story lumber mill angles toward the morning sky. A tranquil stream and grass surround it.
We reveal two men, identical twins (Black, Mid 30s) waiting beside a PARKED CAR. SMOKE the older of the two watches the road ahead, while STACK rolls a cigarette, lights it, and takes a pull before passing it to his brother.
Smoke takes the cigarette, his hands shaking slightly, as he takes a pull, he sees what they’ve been waiting for-
A PACKARD, motoring towards them from a distance.
Smoke hands the cigarette back to his brother who pulls one last time and drops it, stamps it out before picking up a small bag.
The Ford parks in front of the mill and the driver, HOGWOOD, (White, 45s) exits, taking the twins in with a self satisfied sigh.
SMOKE
You Hogwoood?
He nods.
HOGWOOD
Hope I ain't kept ya’ll boys
waiting too long?
(takes a good look at them)
You boys twins?
STACK
(smiling)
Nah... we cousins...
Hogwood smiles. Spits a dip.
Smoke stare daggers at him. Unflinching.