It's 1932 in Clarksdale, Miss., and enterprising twin brothers Smoke and Stack, both played by Coogler's longtime muse Michael B. Jordan, have returned to town after some years away in Chicago. (Clarksdale is one of several places where early blues pioneers like Robert Johnson are said to have "sold their souls to the devil.

While Ryan Coogler has proven himself with dramas (“Fruitvale Station”), sports movies (“Creed”) and blockbusters (“Black Panther” and “Wakanda Forever”), “Sinners” is the filmmaker’s first horror movie and it is very much a horror movie. So yes, “Sinners” is scary.