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| “ | I am your way out. This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build. Won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever. | „ |
| ~ Remmick's most famous quote. |
| “ | "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen." Long ago, the men who stole my father's land forced these words upon us. I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort. [...] Those men lied to themselves, then lied to us. They told stories of a God above and a devil below, and lies of a dominion of man over beast and Earth. [...] We are Earth and beast and God. We are woman and man. We are connected, you and I, to everything. | „ |
| ~ Remmick explaining his backstory to Sammie after reciting the Lord's Prayer. |
Remmick is the main antagonist of the 2025 period action horror film, Sinners.
He is a millennia-old Irish vampire who, upon being driven by profound loneliness and the loss of his ancestral community, sought to build a surrogate vampire family through blood and music. He specifically targeted musician Sammie Moore due to being attracted to the latter's transcendental music, and conceived of plans to conjure the spirits of his ancestors by appropriating Sammie's talents for his own ends. Because of this, Remmick serves as Sammie's archenemy.
He was portrayed by Jack O'Connell, who also played Sir Jimmy Crystal in 28 Years Later, Brett in Eden Lake, and James Cook in Skins.
Personality[]
Remmick is a mass-murdering, ruthless and demonic vampire who has terrorized humanity for centuries. He is very manipulative; as vampires cannot be permitted to enter a room or a home unless they are explicitly invited in, he tries to trick and deceive his targets, succeeding time and again to various degrees. When traditional tricks don't work, he becomes very ruthless and confrontational, evidenced when he threatens to convert Grace's daughter Lisa into a vampire to lure her out. He seems to enjoy frightening people.
Ironically, Remmick is incredibly lonely and desperately longs to see his deceased family again. As part of his troupe, Remmick is committed to racial equality among vampires and has a disdain for the Ku Klux Klan, not just because they are racist, but because they historically targeted Irish immigrants and discriminated against them in the 1920s and 1930s. As a result, he does not have reservations with informing Smoke that Hogwood, the Grand Dragon of the local KKK chapter, is planning to murder everyone at Smoke's juke joint the next morning.
Biography[]
Past[]
Many centuries ago (possibly before the establishment of the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century), Remmick was part of a community in Ireland. However, his use of Modern English, his reaction to the Lord's Prayer being in English, and 17th century dress in the Sinners prologue, indicate he may come from Ireland immediately preceding the brutal Cromwellian invasion of Ireland, that massacred the Irish Catholic population, forced Protestantism upon them, and resulted in the theft of their lands. Remmick's community and it's traditions were suppressed, Remmick proceeded to spend centuries wandering the world, looking to create a new everlasting community of fellowship in place of the one he's lost, turning people into monsters like himself in order to achieve that goal.
1911[]
Due to unknown reasons, the wreckage of the Celtic Hare, a ship carrying Irish immigrants, was discovered on a dock in Boston with no survivors except for Remmick, who was seen fleeing the scene by a lone woman. It was heavily implied that he murdered all the Irish immigrants in the Celtic Hare, and he escaped the crime scene to avoid being caught.
1932[]
21 years later, Remmick was persecuted by the local Choctaw community and ran into a house where Joan and Bert, a couple involved in the local KKK chapter, resided; desperate to escape the hunters and hide from the setting sun he already suffered severe burns from, he manipulated them into letting him hide with them. The Native Americans tried to warn the couple of Remmick’s true nature but they ignored them. After the sun sets, Remmick murders the couple and turns them into vampires.
He, alongside Joan and Bert, arrive at the Mississippi Delta where the twin brothers Smoke and Stack had recently opened a juke joint in an effort to earn some money and support their community. Whilst outside, Remmick is attracted to the brothers' cousin Sammie Moore, a musician who has the power to attract spirits from both past and future using his music.
Offering money and music for entry, Remmick and the couple are denied an invitation by the suspicious twins. Reminding the twins that the bar needs the income, Mary, Stack's lover, meets Remmick outside where he subtly reveals his true age by handing her gold coins and turns her into another vampire. She returns inside, where she seduces Stack and bites him. Smoke shoots her, but she is unharmed by regular bullets and escapes. Cornbread, a friend of the twins, is attacked by Remmick and turned as well.
As the juke joint empties, Remmick and his vampires ambush and turn the departing patrons, including Bo. Stack is revived as a vampire but Annie repels him with pickled garlic juice, forcing him to flee the joint. She then instructs the survivors: only silver or wooden stakes can kill vampires, and they cannot enter a building unless invited. As the survivors prepare themselves for an attack, Remmick and the vampires start singing Irish music and dancing to the tune. Remmick attempts to negotiate, praising Sammie's supernatural talent, claiming that vampirism offers immortality, freedom, and escape from racism, which he offers in exchange for Sammie using his skills to summon the spirits of Remmick's lost community. He also warns that Hogwood, who is secretly the Grand Dragon of the local Klan, plans to attack them at dawn. When the survivors refuse his offer, Remmick and Bo confront Grace, threatening to attack her daughter. In a desperate act of anger, Grace invites them into the juke joint, allowing them in. In the ensuing battle, Grace, Annie, and Delta Slim are killed. Mary is devastated by Annie's death and flees the bar.
Smoke and Pearline help Sammie escape the juke joint, with the latter dying in the process, but Remmick catches up to him quickly through flight. In a final confrontation, Sammie smashes his guitar over Remmick's head which lodged the resonator guitar's silver cover plate into his head, severely disfiguring and weakening him. Right before Remmick tries to turn Sammie, Smoke arrives just in time to kill him with a stake to his heart. As the sun rises, the vampire horde is incinerated, including Remmick himself who ends up engulfed in a tornado of flames. Despite his demise, Remmick’s warning about Hogwood turns out correct as the latter and the Klan come the next day to murder the Twins and the guests, which urges Smoke to send off Sammie back home, with the latter confronting his own father and deciding to build his life as a musician.
Strengths and Weaknesses[]
Powers[]
- Immortality: As a vampire, Remmick is immortal and immune to disease, age and almost unkillable. He originates from Ireland and according to him he was alive during the Christianization of Ireland. Christianity came to Ireland in 431 AD. Since Sinners takes place in 1932, Remmick is at least 1,501 years old during the events of the film.
- Fangs and Claws: As a vampire, Remmick possesses long razor sharp claws and fangs used to feed on his victims. His mouth presumably can stretch and reveal even more fangs.
- Hive Mind: Remmick has a telepathic connection with all the vampires he has turned, functioning as a sort of hive mind. He shares all the memories, desires, emotions and sensations of him and his victims.
- Possession: To be added
- Memory absorption: Remmick can absorb the memories of anyone he bites and turns into a Vampire, gaining all of the knowledge, abilities and lived experiences they had in their lives as Human Beings. Some examples include him being able to identify Cornbread after turning Mary, and being able to speak Taishanese after turning Bo Chow. This ability seems to extend to anyone Remmick has turned e.g. Stack was able to "see" Remmick's memories even though he was turned by Mary.
- Spiritual Music Sense: Remmick was able to sense Sammie's Griot abilities while on his way to the Juke Joint with Joan & Bert. It is speculated that Remmick possibly sensed a Choctaw Firekeeper's abilities before being chased away by their Choctaw brethren. Remmick may have been a Fili when he was human, but the spiritual aspect was completely severed once he became a Vampire.
- Supernatural Durability & Healing: Although vampires don't seem to heal at an extremely accelerated rate, they still had unnatural physical resistance and survivability far above a normal human being. Remmick survived a large silver disk from Sammie's guitar being embedded deep in his head and probably would have healed over time if he hadn't died.
- Supernatural Strength: It is not completely known how physically strong Remmick is, though he is able to pick up people just by the neck and carry them/throw them across rooms or into other objects (as seen with Pearline).
- Levitation: Remmick can leap across large distances and presumably levitate or fly to some degree.
- Vampirism: Remmick can turn humans into vampires by infecting them through a bite.
Abilities[]
- Expert Musician: Remmick is a talented singer, musician and dancer of Irish folk music. He is very skilled playing the banjo throughout the movie. It is implied that he used to be a Fili before becoming a vampire.
- Master Manipulator: Remmick is incredibly charismatic and persuasive, able to effortlessly blend in and pass up for a human. He was able to trick Joan and Bert into inviting him into their home by feigning distress and appealing to their racist views after spotting their KKK robes inside their house, offering them gold knowing they would most likely want to take part of what he claimed the Choctaw had stolen from him.
Weaknesses[]
- Invitation: Vampires cannot enter any property without being explicitly invited by the owner or someone already inside.
- Garlic: Vampire flesh is burned by garlic.
- Wooden Stakes: Remmick would have likely still died after Smoke drove a wooden stake through his heart even if the sun hadn't risen on him.
- Sunlight: Remmick survived under the rays of the sun longer than the rest of his pack, but like them, he ultimately burned nonetheless.
- Silver: Annie mentions that vampires are weak to silver, and later Sammie used the silver disk that decorated his guitar to severely injure Remmick.
- Pendants: As seen with Stack trying to bite his brother Smoke, the Mojo Bag that Annie made slipped out of Smoke's shirt collar, and was shown repelling Stack away, thus may have the same type of effect on Remmick.
List of Victims[]
- Joan & Bert
- Mary
- Elias Moore (aka Stack)
- Bo Chow
- Cornbread
- Annie (indirectly)
- Pearline
- Grace Chow (indirectly)
- Delta Slim (indirectly)
- Multiple unnamed sharecroppers and plantation workers
- Unknown number of unnamed victims before the events of Sinners.
Quotes[]
| “ | Oh, he's just restin'. | „ |
| ~ Remmick after Joan walks in on him feeding on Bert. |
| “ | Don't cry. He's all better now. | „ |
| ~ Remmick after turning Bert. |
| “ | Smoke: Y'all Klan? Remmick: Sir! Now, we believe in equality and music, and we just came here to play, spend some money, have a good time… |
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| ~ Remmick expressing his disgust towards racism. |
| “ | Cause you're in some deep, deep pain that money can't fix. Am I right? You came over here for fellowship and love. | „ |
| ~ Remmick manipulating Mary. |
| “ | Is that Cornbread? Hey. Fellowship and love. Hey Cornbread… peek-a-boo! | „ |
| ~ Remmick before attacking Cornbread. |
| “ | ♪ One, two, three, four, five. ♪ ♪ Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road.♪ ♪ And all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-lol-le-dah! ♪ ♪ From there I got away, me spirits never failin’! ♪ ♪ Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailin' !♪ ♪ Captain at me roared, said that no room had he! ♪ ♪ When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy. ♪ ♪ Down among the pigs, played some funny rigs. ♪ ♪ Danced some hearty jigs, the water 'round me bubblin'.♪ ♪ When off to Holyhead, wished me-self was dead. ♪ ♪ Or better far instead, on the rocky road to Dublin. ♪ |
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| ~ Remmick singing "Rocky Road to Dublin". |
| “ | SAMMIE! | „ |
| ~ Remmick as he attacks Sammie. |
| “ | SHIT!!! | „ |
| ~ Remmick as he got wounded by Sammie when he smashed his guitar to Remmick’s head. |
| “ | You will taste the sweet pain of death. We will make beautiful music, together. | „ |
| ~ Remmick's last words, spoken to Sammie Moore. |
Trivia[]
- Sinners and 28 Years Later are both horror films and came out on the same year in which Jack O'Connell appeared.
- One of Remmick's glaring characteristics as a vampire is his red eyes. According to Sinners director Ryan Coogler, this was primarily inspired by The Wolf/Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
- In a later interview, Coogler said that the vampires glowing eyes was meant to simulate the reflection seen in many animals eyes.
- 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.
- Remmick mentions having a wife who was killed by the Choctaw and is seen with a ring on his finger when he is pleading for shelter to Bert and Joan; whether he was telling the truth or lying about this is left unknown.
- Remmick primarily speaks with an American Southern accent due to his time in America. On several occasions, he slips into his native Irish accent, such as when he sings ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’ and when he recites the Lord’s Prayer to Sammy. There are also a few times that his thralls also adopt his Irish accent.
External Links[]
- Remmick on the Sinners Wiki
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