Supernatural period horror is written, directed and co-produced by Ryan Coogler and scored by Ludwig Goransson.
Michael B. Jordan - Smoke and Stack Moore
Hailee Steinfeld - Mary
Miles Caton - Sammie "Preacher Boy" Moore
Jack O'Connell - Remmick
Wunmi Mosaku - Annie
Jayme Lawson - Pearline
Omar Benson Miller - Cornbread
Delroy Lindo - Delta Slim
Summary
Clarksdale, Mississippi,
16 October 1932.
Clutching just the neck of his guitar, Samuel enters his father's church who demands whippersnapper renounce music and seek salvation.
The day before.
Identical twins and WWI veterans Smoke and Stack Moore return to their hometown years after working for Al Capone in Chicago.
They buy a sawmill to start a juke joint for the local black community, taking cousin Sammie with them.
On opening night, Sammie's transcendent music attracts the attention of Irish-immigrant vampire Remmick, who arrives on the scene with his minions.
But something tells me they're not in the mood for dancing (or romancing).
Mid-credits
60 years later in Chicago, Sammie gets a surprise visit from Stack and Mary who survived the massacre. Stack offers to make him immortal, but declines saying "I think I've seen enough of this place."
Post-credits
A youthful Sammie plays and sings African-American song This Little Light of Mine on the same guitar he'll use to fight the undead.
Friendship and love
A little slow to begin with, but once the vampire action kicks in, it's a rip-roaring, bloodsucking thrill ride.
Think From Dusk Till Dawn, less the comedy.
Another key influence cited is The Faculty (also directed by Robert Rodriguez).
Also, you cannot rule out Salem's Lot.
Two Creeds are definitely better than one, and once Stack is turned, the brothers even engage in a brutal fight.
At one point, those not bitten are forced into eating a clove of garlic to pronounce them human, surely paying homage to the blood sample test in The Thing (1982).
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