Sinners is Not Just a Horror Film; its an Example of Black History

By Lumka Noruwana

(The Post News)– Ryan Googler’s Sinners is more than just a horror film—it is a movement about Black American history and culture.

Set in 1932, Clarksdale, Mississippi, the film offers the audience a glimpse of how life was for people of colour, particularly the Black population, living in the South, especially when it came to dealing with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), many of whom argued to have been the real villains.

It has also been noted that the music within the film felt like another one of the characters. From Miles Caton’s character Sammie using his voice and guitar to communicate his aspirations to shape his identity outside of his father’s church, down to Delroy Lindo’s character Delta Slim, who expresses the pain of his friend’s lynching through song.

Coogler uses blues music to create a “cultural connection”. According to Coogler in IGN, it embraces the physicality and suffering associated with the circumstance.

After being in theaters for only three and a half weeks, the vampire psychological thriller and horror has grossed almost $250 million in ticket sales, making it the highest-grossing original since 2019.

Scoring a whopping 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.1/10 on IMDb, Sinners takes the cup for being the first horror film in over 30 years to receive such an enthusiastic response.