"In the run-up to the Oscars on March 15, all eyes are on Ryan Coogler's "Sinners," nominated for a record-breaking 16 Academy Awards. The horror film, set in the early 1930s southern United States, follows twin brothers who return to their hometown, hoping to start over by opening a place for the African American community amid the pressures of Jim Crow-era life. As the opening night unfolds, the celebration reveals that the brothers and their community are being targeted by vampires."
"Vampire-like figures have long existed in myth, folklore and religion. There were stories of blood-drinking demons in Mesopotamia. In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, the "strix" was a bird of ill omen associated with feeding on blood. Hindu mythology described the "vetala," a spirit inhabiting corpses. Later, vampires appeared in Slavic and Balkan folklore, featuring some of the characteristics we have come to associate with the blood-thirsty monster nowadays: reanimated corpses that easily fell prey to stakes, sunlight and, of course, garlic."
Ryan Coogler's Sinners, nominated for 16 Academy Awards, is a horror film set in the early 1930s American South that follows twin brothers returning home to open a community space for African Americans under Jim Crow pressures. The opening-night celebration reveals a vampiric attack on the brothers and their community, with supernatural horror reflecting very real social and racial violence of the period. Vampire-like figures appear across Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Hindu, Slavic and Balkan traditions, evolving into the reanimated corpses of later folklore. English-language literature introduced the vampire with Polidori's The Vampyre and Bram Stoker's Dracula, cementing the vampire as a persistent cultural symbol of societal fears.
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