$360 million: This Hollywood fantasy film is a 2025 blockbuster that you shouldn’t miss… You can still catch up!

It’s not every day that a movie like Sinners makes more than $360 million worldwide. A figure that remains far from Hollywood blockbusters is understandable. So why are we talking about a miracle?

Well, because Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed), should never have brought in that much money: the film is neither a sequel, nor an adaptation, nor a spinoff, nor the beginning of a franchise… it’s a purely original story, almost $100 million. The amount is (very) rarely awarded for this type of film, finally establishing Ryan Coogler as an important director in Hollywood. And since we also think the movie is great, we can only recommend you to support this kind of initiative!

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Set in 1932 Mississippi, in the midst of racial segregation, Sinners follows the journey of twin brothers Smoke and Stack, who return home to Chicago after working with bootleggers. Upon their arrival, they bought an old sawmill from a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, presumably a penitent, with the intention of opening a blues club for the residents. But the inauguration night turns into a nightmare.

The real Pulp Fiction

Let’s start by saying that Sinners is a vampire movie. We know that’s not exactly what the resume sold us. However, it was in his desire to make a film about the history of American racism that Ryan Coogler undertook to reinvent the vampire figure. In the tradition of Jordan Peele (go away, NOPE), the director chose to hide the auteur film with a message, disguising it as genuine entertainment. *pulp *And the bet really paid off.

*Pulp is an American literary genre from the 1920s that contains stories with an abundance of violent crime, savagery, and overly macabre situations*

So, Sinners is one of those movies that we have a really good time watching, and we learn a lot at the same time: especially about the history of segregation in the United States and everyday life. The film’s structure, billed as an homage to A Night in Hell, which Ryan Coogler is a fan of, allows it to play both ways: the first part being more historical and psychological, and the second part, which is just a nice action/horror concentrate.

Did you say vampire?

It is also interesting that the vampire figure, overused in cinema, is very cleverly invented here. Far from being simple villains, the vampires here are a counter-society in their own right, which can become almost desirable in the eyes of our characters: an eternal marginal life, without racism and injustice, where you only have to take what you want.

So the proposed moral dilemma is particularly interesting in the context of segregation: do you really want to, even if racism is abolished, create a community with these whites who have done you so much harm? This question, posed to the film’s characters, continues to haunt the African-American community today, particularly marked by centuries of racist violence.

In this way, Sinners is proof that entertaining cinema can address complex social issues while offering a great spectacle for the eyes to enjoy. And its success at the box office is proof that the public is demanding it.

Sinners is available on MyCanal.