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Sinners ending spoilers follow.
Ryan Coogler's excellent new movie Sinners has been a box-office smash and if you're heading to see it this weekend after the hype, don't go leaving once the credits start to roll.
The horror centres on twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B Jordan) who return to their hometown to open a juke joint. However, the opening night quickly derails when the twins discover a greater evil is waiting for them outside.
It might seem as though the story wraps up before the credits, but you'll miss an important extra scene if you leave straightaway. Sinners actually has two credit scenes: one mid-credits and then one at the very end.
If you missed them, or just want to know what happens, we're here to help. Major spoilers await after the photo.
Sinners credit scene explained
Over the start of the end credits, we get glimpses of a band performance at a club somewhere. It's revealed that the performance is in 1992 and we're watching an older Sammie at work.
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The mid-credit scene follows on from this as we catch up with Sammie (now played by legendary blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy) at the bar after the performance. He soon meets some old 'friends' as Stack and Mary walk into the club, named Pearline's after the singer who died during the bloodthirsty finale.
It turns out that Smoke let his brother Stack live on the promise that he never came after Sammie, while Mary escaped during the carnage at the end before all the other vampires burned up at dawn.
Stack asks Sammie whether he wants him to turn him so that Sammie can carry on playing at Pearline's since "it won't be long for you". Sammie turns him down and says he's played enough, before giving Stack and Mary their own private performance of the same song he played for Stack earlier in the movie.
The old friends then say their goodbyes, with Stack and Mary leaving Pearline's and fulfilling their promise to not harm Sammie.
Talking to EW, Coogler said the credit scene was "a reason for the movie" as it's partly a tribute to his late Uncle James.
"I wrote what I thought he'd think would be cool," he added. "[Buddy Guy is] the only artist that my uncle would consistently get dressed for and go see a lot."
The post-credit scene isn't as vital in terms of revealing character's fates or a final story beat, but if you really liked Miles Caton in the movie, you might want to stay anyway.
It cuts back to a younger Sammie at his father's church, singing 'This Little Light of Mine'. There's no indication of when it happened exactly, but we know it's before all the vampire carnage as Sammie left town at the end of the movie to pursue his musical dream.
For star Wunmi Mosaku, the post-credit scene gives the movie a "circular ending". "We see him driving up to the church at the beginning and the end, so this is the beginning of that day. He's still in the same costume," she told The Hollywood Reporter.
"I feel like it's the beginning of who he was before the twins came back. So it felt right to me, and it felt complete."
Sinners is out now in cinemas.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
