Remmick is the main villain of the 2025 period action-horror film Sinners. He is a centuries-old Irish vampire driven by grief, isolation, and a desperate need to rebuild the lost community of his ancient past. Using both blood and music, he seeks to form a new “family” of vampires. He becomes obsessed with Sammie Moore, a gifted musician whose supernatural abilities may help Remmick summon the spirits of his long-dead kin.
Backstory[]
Ancient Times: Remmick originated from a pagan vampire community in Ireland, likely pre-5th century. As Christianity spread and colonizers stole their land, his people were wiped out. Ever since, he has wandered the world, creating new vampires in hopes of reviving what was lost.
1911: The wreck of the immigrant ship Celtic Hare is found in Boston Harbor. All passengers are dead except for Remmick, who is seen fleeing the scene by a lone survivor.
1932: On the run from the Choctaw community in Mississippi, Remmick tricks a KKK-affiliated couple, Joan and Bert, into sheltering him from daylight. He kills them and turns them into vampires. The trio heads south and discovers Smoke and Stack’s juke joint. There, Remmick is drawn to Sammie Moore, whose music resonates with supernatural energy.
Denied entry into the juke joint due to vampire lore, Remmick begins to turn people on the outside, including Mary and Cornbread. As his new vampire "family" grows, he tries to lure Sammie with promises of power, immortality, and an escape from racial oppression.
When Sammie and others reject him, Remmick launches a full assault. In the chaos, multiple characters are killed or turned. Smoke and Sammie escape, but Remmick catches up. Sammie delays him by smashing his guitar, and Smoke arrives in time to kill Remmick with a wooden stake. As dawn breaks, the vampire horde is destroyed in sunlight, including Remmick, who is consumed in flames.
Despite his death, Remmick’s warning proves true—the Klan attacks the next day. Sammie is sent away to safety, choosing to rebuild his life and musical legacy.
Personality[]
Remmick is a cold-blooded, sadistic vampire who has terrorized humanity for generations. He delights in fear—especially when targeting women—but beneath this cruelty lies a deep loneliness and a yearning for his lost people. He’s cunning and manipulative, often using charm or deception to get invited into homes, a requirement for vampires. When manipulation fails, he turns to threats and violence, as seen when he endangers a child to gain access to a building.
Despite his monstrous nature, Remmick supports racial equality among vampires. He openly despises the Ku Klux Klan—not just for their racism, but also for their historic discrimination against Irish immigrants like himself. He even warns a Black juke joint owner, Smoke, about an incoming Klan attack.
Powers & Abilities[]
Strengths:
- Immortality: Remmick has lived for over a thousand years.
- Fangs & Claws: He uses these to feed and fight.
- Hive Mind: Shares a mental and emotional link with vampires he creates.
- Supernatural Durability: He can survive severe injuries, including silver wounds.
- Levitation: Can leap great distances and possibly fly.
- Vampirism: Turns others with a bite.
- Musicianship: Plays Irish folk music and the banjo with skill.
- Manipulation: Expert at deceiving others, especially through emotional or cultural appeals.
Weaknesses:
- Invitation Rule: Cannot enter buildings uninvited.
- Garlic: Burns his skin.
- Wooden Stakes: Lethal when driven through the heart.
- Sunlight: Slower to burn than others, but not immune.
- Silver: Causes serious injury, as seen when struck with Sammie’s silver guitar piece
Trivia[]
- One of his glaring characteristics as a vampire is his red eyes. According to Sinners director Ryan Coogler, this was directly inspired by The Wolf/Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
- Remmick's origins as to how he got to America, as revealed via a Spotify Easter Egg, shares a lot of similarities with a chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, where Dracula arrives to England on a ship known as the Demeter.
- Beyond being centuries older than the rest of his troupe, Remmick appears to biologically differ from the rest of the vampires; he is shown to have longer claws, be able to fly, and is killed by vanishing into a flame tornado. In contrast, the other vampires lack claws, are not shown to fly, and simply burn upon witnessing the sun.