Sinners Star Explains Why the Smash Hit Vampire Film Isn’t a Horror Movie

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has become a success upon release, surpassing box office expectations and drawing universal praise from both critics and audiences. Its success could be in part due to how the film features vampires, but it’s not a typical horror movie. In fact, one of the stars of the movie, Delroy Lindo, said he never even saw Sinners as a horror during the production.

Lindo, who plays Delta Slim in Sinners, spoke about his work on the movie during a recent interview with /Film. He recalled his reaction to the script, sharing why he doesn’t consider Sinners to be a horror film. The actor also gave praise to director Ryan Coogler for the collaboration, allowing Lindo to offer some of his own creative input on the screenplay along with the direction of his character.

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“I have to tell you, I never saw the film as horror. I didn’t see it as a horror film,” Lindo said. “When I read the script, I interpreted the story to be about what happens when a community is infiltrated and turns on itself. That’s how I responded to the script. And I told Ryan that’s what I felt. I told him. I gave him my impressions after having read it once, and he affirmed my impressions. Not only did he affirm my impressions, but I also told him where I thought the script needed work, and he agreed with me. So from day one, we were on the same page in terms of the direction that we wanted to take the work.”

When I read the script, I interpreted the story to be about what happens when a community is infiltrated and turns on itself.

Lindo continued, “I’ve come to the conclusion that the horror that’s associated with this narrative is what happens indeed when a community turns on itself, what happens when that community starts to exert violence on itself within itself, which is intra violence. And in that sense, it’s a very contemporary story. And it’s a story that we, as Black people, we struggle with that, because quite a bit of the violence that takes place in our communities is, we inflict it on ourselves. So it’s very contemporary in that sense, from that standpoint.”

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Michael B. Jordan Has Dual Roles in Sinners

Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as identical twins returning to their hometown in 1932 to find it overrun by a supernatural evil. Delroy Lindo, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, and Wunmi Mosaku also star. The movie has earned an approval rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes with an audience score of 97%. It is also the No. 1 movie with an opening weekend of $45.6 million.

Sinners is now playing in movie theaters.

Source: /Film

Sinners

Release Date

April 18, 2025

Runtime

138 Minutes

Director

Ryan Coogler

Writers

Ryan Coogler

• Michael B. Jordan

  Smoke / Stack

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