Does <em>Sinners</em> Have a Post-Credits Scene?

This story contains spoilers for Sinners.

Sinners delivers two incredible Michael B. Jordan performances and a double dose of post-credits scenes. That’s right. Ryan Coogler’s Jim Crow-era tale—which follows Black juke joint owners who are terrorized by a hungry group of vampires—keeps the thrills rolling long after the credits. Though the new film from the Black Panther director doesn’t feature any superheroes in colorful tights, the film still features two epilogues that audiences should stick around to see.

First up, the true ending to the film takes place during a mid-credits scene. Spoilers for those who haven’t seen Sinners yet, but it shouldn't shock audiences that most of the characters we follow through the film do not make it home alive. Sammie Moore (Miles Caton), Sinners's young, musical genius, is one of the only characters lucky enough to see the daylight. He possesses the rare ability to transcend time and space when he plays the guitar. So, long after Sammie survives his traumatic night against the vampires, we see him again in the distant future—where he’s played by blues legend Buddy Guy.

It’s very common in blues mythology for guitarists to sell their souls to the devil in exchange for supernatural musical abilities. Buddy Guy doesn’t have Sammie’s gnarly face scar in real life, but I appreciate Coogler for suggesting that Sammie’s fight against the devil is the lore for Guy’s fictional blues persona.

In the mid-credits scene with Sammie (Guy), the musician receives a visit from one of Michael B. Jordan’s twins. I forgot to mention: Michael B. Jordan plays twins named Smoke and Stack. Stack and and his love interest, Mary (Haliee Steinfeld), are both turned into vampires in Sinners. Most of the other vampires are ultimately defeated when the sun rises and burns them to death. (Vampire rules are very important in Sinners.) However, Smoke is unable to kill his twin brother before he succumbs to his own injuries.

So, some sixty years after that horrible night, vampires Stack and Mary visit the elderly Sammie to pay their respects. The pair explain that Smoke asked Stack to leave Sammie alone. Out of respect for his twin brother, the vampire kept his word. Though Stack and Mary offer Sammie immortality in the future, he refuses. Still, Sammie tells Stack that the evening in 1936 was the best night of his life—that is, before the vampires attacked. Stack says that he felt the same. It was only the night he ever felt truly free.

Following the credits, Sinners shows a clip of Miles Caton singing and playing guitar. It’s a nice end to the carnage before, and further proof that Caton is a star in the making. As Coogler told Variety, the director was impressed by Caton’s audition tape from the very beginning. “He was just in the dark—like he didn’t turn his lights on,” Coogler said. “Something about that was, like, so intriguing. This kid looked like he was in his basement, like in between homework assignments. But he had this voice—a once in a lifetime voice.”

I can’t speak to any hints regarding a Sinners sequel in the post-credits scenes. If Coogler wants to walk down that path, Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld are now immortal vampires on the hunt for their next kill. Let's just hope that Stack keeps his Blade sunglasses.