Sinners (2025)

[Mannahnin]

I think the scene was fine, but I disagree with some of your points.

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I think the brothers expected an attack. They had the box of weapons. After purchasing the mill, they explicitly warned Hogwood what would happen if the Klan came onto the property. Even if the vampires never showed up, they would have been ready, I think.

Maybe. It came up during the vampire attack that they had forgotten the trunk of weapons outside.

 

[Mannahnin]

I think it also gives us closure that

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Smoke successfully did the right thing by Annie.

Yeah, that's a nice bit of relief and closure.

 

[Deset Gled]

I think the scene was fine, but I disagree with some of your points.

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I think the brothers expected an attack. They had the box of weapons. After purchasing the mill, they explicitly warned Hogwood what would happen if the Klan came onto the property. Even if the vampires never showed up, they would have been ready, I think.

The scene is also there as part of a classic horror movie trope. Which is to address the question "If vampires are real and kill people as shown in the movie, why aren't they a well known problem? Why are they legends instead of an accepted truth?". Sinners provides an answer that works equally well both in-universe and IRL.

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The vampires are actively following real world atrocities and killing people that won't be missed. Mass murders of black southerners aren't paid attention to because everyone assumes the KKK did it. Before that, the head vampire killed remote farmers that would be assumed killed by the Choctaw. And before that he was killing the Choctaw, which would have been ignored by white authorities. The Irish background of the head vampire also hints towards hanging out around unrest there before coming to America. Their trail of victims is all marginalized people that wouldn't be investigated.

The KKK scene isn't 100% necessary to tell this part of the story, but it's a great way to show it head on rather than just imply it. Especially because it spells out that the KKK wasn't just coming to stop the twins or burn down the building. They were clearly ready to cause a violent massacre, the same as the vampires.