Ryan Coogler’s Sinners bares its fangs in latest trailer

Though nobody says “vampire,” in Sinners’ new trailer twin brothers Elijah and Elias (Michael B. Jordan) know that there’s something demonic going as they return to their hometown down in the South. It’s not just that the town is full of superstition and white men like Remmick (Jack O’Connell) who don’t take kindly to Black people. There is something hunting folks down in the dead of night and leaving nothing behind but burning buildings. And while the twins know how to deal with garden variety Jim Crow era racists, they’re understandably shocked to realize that they’re dealing with fanged ghouls with a taste for human blood.

Between its shots of Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) dancing with one of the brothers, a showdown at the local juke joint, and Remmick feasting on a victim, the new trailer kind of telegraphs what feels like a significant amount of Sinners’ plots. The movie still looks tremendous, but hopefully there will still be some surprises in store when Sinners makes its theatrical debut on April 18th.