Horror Hit ‘Sinners’ Returns to IMAX Theaters for a Chilling Halloween Re-Release

Spooky Season 2025 will end on a very high, if not entirely original, note with the rerelease of “Sinners.” Ryan Coogler’s latest film, a period piece in which vampires besiege a juke joint in 1930s rural Mississippi, had its original theatrical run this past April, when it was a smashing commercial success and enjoyed even more spectacular critical acclaim. Now, as October draws to a close, one of the year’s best cinematic examples of supernatural horror will get another run in the most sumptuous format imaginable.

Sinners: An Overview

“Sinners” is the fifth film of Ryan Coogler, an auteur director whose previous films are the 2013 biopic drama “Fruitvale Station,” 2015’s “Rocky” follow-up “Creed,” and the blockbuster Marvel films “Black Panther” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” respectively from 2018 and 2022. Coogler has consistently collaborated with actor Michael B. Jordan (whose non-Coogler credits include 2015’s “Fantastic Four” and 2018’s “Fahrenheit 451“), who has acted in all his films and plays a starring role in all of them except “Wakanda Forever.”

In “Sinners,” Jordan stars as the identical Moore twins, Smoke and Stack, two gangsters who return to their native Mississippi in 1932 after stealing money and liquor from Chicago crime syndicates. Back home, they, along with their closest friends and family members, use these resources to open a juke joint for Black patrons in the area. On the joint’s opening night, a White vampire named Remmick (Jack O’Connell) founds a bloodsucking coterie and sets their sights on everyone inside the establishment.

The story of “Sinners” explores such themes as the White threat to Black people in the Jim Crow South, the importance of preserving cultural uniqueness, and the invaluable role of music in both preserving and transcending culture. (Ludwig Göransson, another of Coogler’s five-film collaborators, was responsible for the indelible score of “Sinners”).

An IMAX Re-Release – Just as “Sinners” Was Meant to Be Seen

Upon its release, one of the many lauded aspects of “Sinners” was its visual splendor. Whether showcasing nocturnal horror mayhem or the serene beauty of a bright day in the rural South, the 65-mm cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw utilized a mixture of IMAX and Ultra Panavision 70 ratios to make the film a particularly magnificent ocular bonanza on the big screen.

After two weeks, the film’s IMAX and premium-large format run was truncated to accommodate the release of the Marvel movie “Thunderbolts*,” but “Sinners” subsequently got a limited IMAX re-release between May 15 and May 21. Its forthcoming run, which will commence on October 30 and last one week, will mark the second such re-release.

In its official press release for this event, the film’s distributor, Warner Bros. Studios, stated (via Business Wire) that “Sinners” will thus “reach the big screen in the way Coogler originally envisioned… The re-release reunites audiences with a story that spoke volumes when it first premiered – both for its ambitious visual storytelling and for the passion and artistry of its stellar cast and crew.”