SINNERS Sweeps The FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards – Could The Oscars Be Next?

To the surprise of almost certainly nobody, Ryan Coogler's Sinners won big at the the 2025 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, taking home four of the night's most coveted awards including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Wide Release and Best Score in a well-deserved sweep that Smoke and Stack would surely be celebrating down at the juke joint.

If for some reason you managed to miss Sinners on its box office busting theatrical run (or one of its re-releases), the vampire epic stars Michael B. Jordan as aforementioned troubled twin brothers Smoke and Stack, who return to their hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi to start again after almost a decade working for the mob, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Alongside Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee, True Grit), newcomer Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell (in the his first of his two standout “weird creepy guy roles” of 2025, the second being Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later), Wunmi Mosaku (His House, Deadpool & Wolverine), Li Jun Li (Babylon), Jayme Lawson (The Woman King), Omar Benson Miller (True Lies) and the legendary Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) all give some of the best performances of the year in an absolutely stacked ensemble cast.

Sinners being Coogler's first post–Black Panther work, and an entirely original story no less, hype was always going to be high, (not to mention that, thanks to Blumhouse blockbusters and the street cred of smaller, more genre-focused labels like NEON and A24, horror is hotter than ever) but still nobody could have predicted the absolute bloodbath that Sinners wrought upon the box office following its release in spring of this year. Thanks to that tremendous theatrical run, where additional screenings by popular demand, word-of-mouth momentum and “exceptional holds” in huge international markets all helped to make the pic a huge hit in a year of incredibly stiff competition that included The Conjuring: Last Rites, Weapons, Final Destination: Bloodlines and 28 Years Later, Sinners racked up over $360 million racked up at the global box office, making it not only the biggest horror box office winner of 2025, but also the since Christopher Nolan's back in 2010. An incredible feat for any movie, sure, but is, again we'll remind you, an R-rated. Original. Horror. Movie.