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What Kind of Movie is Sinners?
Sinners is a lot of things. First of all, it’s one of the best movies of the year. It’s a film that mixes music, history, and character-driven drama to tell a moving story about twin brothers trying to make a name and a life for themselves—while staying true to themselves and their community—in the oppressive atmosphere of the Jim-Crow era South.
To add even more conflict and meaning, Sinners‘ writer and director Ryan Coogler also utilizes layers of genre-film aesthetics. It’s a vampire movie in which the vampires take more than just your life; They also absorb (i.e. appropriate) a person’s identity and culture into a hive-mind. Additionally, the vamps surround Smoke and Stack’s juke joint in an attempt to force their way in and take what they want. So, from a genre standpoint, Sinners is also a siege movie.
What is a Siege Horror Movie?
If you’re unfamiliar with siege movies, think of films like Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Siege movies are about a group of people contained inside an area (usually a building of some sort, like a juke joint) which they try to defend from antagonistic forces who try to work their way inside and do harm to the occupants. A siege horror movie fits this description with the addition of a horror element. So, Night of the Living Dead (1968 & 1990) is a siege horror movie because of the zombies. Sinners is siege horror because of the vampires.
The siege horror movies listed below contain zombies, vampires, demons, and more. So if you loved the siege element of Sinners, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy these.
7 Great Siege Horror Movies
Demon Knight (1995)
Like Sinners, Demon Knight does a good job of establishing a rich and interesting history for its characters. In this film, a Demon Knight is a guardian of an ancient artifact which demons need in order to bring darkness upon the universe. Frank Brayker (William Sadler) is the latest in the lineage of Demon Knights, and he is forced to barricade himself inside a boarding house as he is chased by a demon called The Collector (Billy Zane). As more demons are summoned to try to work their way inside, Frank and the occupants of the boarding house must protect themselves, their minds, and their souls from being taken.
Slay (2024)
The horror-comedy Slay is a vampire siege movie set in a rundown bar, and it’s one of the better Tubi Originals. It begins with a quartet of drag queens traveling far from home for a performance, not knowing until they arrive that they’ve booked a biker bar. Despite some opposition from the patrons, the show goes on as planned… until vampires spoil the party. Now the queens, the bikers, and everyone else have to learn to work together if they want to keep the vampires from getting inside.
The Void (2016)
The Void is one of the rare cosmic-horror siege movies. It begins with a police officer rushing a wounded man to an isolated hospital staffed by a skeleton crew. Once inside the building, no one is able to leave thanks to numerous cultists in robes attacking anyone who tries to escape. Even worse, what the cultists are there for might already be within the hospital’s walls.
Here for Blood (2023)
When a pro-wrestler does a favor for his girlfriend and takes over her babysitting job while she studies, he thinks he’s in for an easy (if awkward) night. But before the night is through, he gets to use his talent for beating people up when a group of demonically-powered cultists try to break into the house he’s babysitting in. Here for Blood is part siege, part home invasion movie, but there’s enough of a siege element to count for this list. Plus, it’s a lot of fun.
Pontypool (2008)
This list could be made up of exclusively zombie movies, and that list would be extensive. However, the zombie movie chosen here is one of the more unique ones in existence. Pontypool‘s zombies aren’t the usual undead. Instead they’re “conversationalists,” as described by director Bruce McDonald. They’re people infected with an auditory virus that causes people to act a lot like, well, zombies. Shock jock Grant Mazzy is on the radio in Pontypool, Ontario when the virus spreads, leading him and a few other people to hole up inside the radio station as conversationalists try to get inside.
Demon Wind (1990)
Demon Wind is cheap, derivative schlock. It’s wonderfully fun and cheap, derivative schlock. Cory, his girlfriend, and a bunch of their friends go to Cory’s inherited farmhouse so he can get closure on some painful family history. Once there, the friends become trapped on the land by a mysterious fog. As night falls, demonic forces appear. The only thing preventing them from entering the farmhouse and killing everyone is a magic spell enacted years ago. But how long will the spell last?
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Saving the best for last, no siege horror movie list would be complete without From Dusk Till Dawn. Similar to Sinners it’s a movie that changes direction partway through to become a full-on siege horror movie featuring vampires trying to get into a place filled with music, drinks, fun, and anger. If you pressed me to choose between Sinners and From Dusk Till Dawn, I’d probably choose the latter more often than not, but the choice isn’t an easy one. From Dusk Till Dawn leans more heavily into pure genre thrills than Sinners, and I tend to lean the same way.
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