Ryan Coogler’s Sinners bares its fangs in latest trailer

You might want to skip the trailer if you want to be surprised when the movie debuts in April.

by Charles Pulliam-Moore

Jan 28, 2025, 6:43 PM UTC

Image: Warner Bros.

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

It initially seemed like Warner Bros. wanted to keep some of Ryan Coogler’s new gothic horror Sinners shrouded in mystery, but the movie’s latest trailer spells out exactly what’s going on.

Though nobody says “vampire,” in Sinners’ new trailer, twin brothers Elijah and Elias (Michael B. Jordan) know that there’s something demonic going on as they return to their hometown 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.

Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.