Sinners ending explained: One of the twins survived the bloody assaults; here's who, and how

It's day one of Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and everybody who has watched it is already expecting a sequel. Well, there might be, but wait a bit; let it perform, which it is likely to, as it already sits with 97% critic approval on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing. Looks like it's going to break that mold we discussed in one of our stories last week.

Music serves as a sort of plot device here; it can attract healing but also evil. Though Michael B. Jordan is in the lead as twin brothers Smoke and Stack, it's Miles Caton's Sammie who is Smoke and Stack's cousin and at the core of the film.

It is because of him that evil forces visit them and kill the twins; however, Stack survives the bloody events of the film, but not without consequences. He becomes the very force he tried to fend off alongside his brother.

Disclaimer: Spoilers of the film will follow

Smoke managed to survive the night in Sinners

Smoke and Stack have returned to Mississippi after realizing Chicago isn't really a racial paradise. Them fine boys are World War veterans with typical Southern accents and now plan to open a juke joint for the Black community. The only problem is the landowner, Hogwood, who's white and, well, racist.

But the twins manage to set up their joint anyway without going Django Unchained in Sinners.

Now it's time for the joint's opening, and music's necessary, and they have the gifted one, their cousin Sammie, alongside others. But there's a devil in this story, Remmick, whom Jack O'Connell (Ferrari, 300: Rise of an Empire) portrays. That guy is a vampire, gentlemen, and he wants to use Sammie for his musical skills after being lured by the music.

He offers, you can say, immortality to people; the only condition is that he'll turn them into vampires. But humans aren't really interested in it, so a bloodshed ensues between the humans and Remmick's undead horde, where Remmick is killed by Smoke.

But not the day

After this confrontation, the racist Hogwood goes guns blazing the next morning, and Smoke does the same and takes down all of his Ku Klux Klan goons. But that's the end of his story; Smoke vanishes.

But his brother Stack is still very well and alive, but he isn't really a human. He has become a vampire, and that is revealed during the mid-credits scene.

All thanks to Stack's former flame

Sinners opened with a 100% critics' approval at Rotten Tomatoes. (Image via Warner Bros.)

None of this would have happened if Hailee Steinfeld, who's playing Stack's former flame Mary in Sinners, didn't go outside to meet Remmick and his pawns, who are willing to help the joint financially and invite them in. She has become a vampire herself during this meeting. Sad. Not really, wait.

So she returns inside, gives her boyfriend a love bite, and turns him into a vampire. In the mid-credits scene, we see both Mary and Stack visiting Sammie to offer him the 'mortality.' Sammy says, 'no thanks.'

Now, this is a very well set up for Sinners to bloom into one big vampire franchise, should Coogler choose to. Though we haven't heard anything about it yet.