‘Sinners’ makes a chilling return to local IMAX theaters for Halloween

In the spirit of the Halloween season, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is returning to IMAX theaters from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5.

A multigenre film that mixes a Jim Crow-period piece with horror, protagonist twins Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore (both roles played by Jordan) debut their new club after returning home to Mississippi. Along with their younger cousin, guitar-playing Sammie (played by actor Miles Caton), the twins and other partygoers attempt to survive being hunted by bloodthirsty monsters.

Tying elements of overt white supremacy, religion, colonialism, cultural appropriation and multiple aspects of Blackness in the Deep South — the film has been lauded for its cultural and social complexities.

Just after the movie’s release in April, Black Americans have opened up about being more receptive to alternative religious and spiritual practices outside of Christianity. The film features elements of Hoodoo — a mixture of African-based religions that traveled to the U.S. during the trans-Atlantic slave trade — to stave off leeching vampires.

“In a happy world, all Black people would feel comfortable belonging to African-descended traditions because I think it would be deeply empowering for all of us,” Emory University Professor Manbo Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels, a Haitian Vodou priestess, previously said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In an episode of the “It’s UATL” podcast, filmmaker and former AJC journalist Tyson Horne told podcast hosts how “Sinners” felt culturally familiar.

“When we’re reminded of who we are and where we came from, the things that tie us together, that’s what brought (‘Sinners’) home for a lot of people,” he said.

The following IMAX theaters in Georgia are slated to show the Halloween run of “Sinners”: