Annie These ain't haints. They vampires.
Played by Wunmi Mosaku 
Sinners (2025) · 48 quotes
Sinners (2025) · 48 quotes
5th most-quoted character in Sinners (2025): in 10 of its 48 quotes
Most scenes with: Smoke (6), Sammie (3), Remmick (3)
There are legends of people... born with the gift of makin' music so true... it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjurin' spirits from the past and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they call them Firekeepers. And in West Africa... they're called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities... but it also attracts evil.
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8 scenes Annie What you come back for?
We bought that old sawmill. Yeah, we gon' patch it up, make it into a juke joint.
Annie A juke joint. This one of Stack's ideas?
Yeah, he figure tonight gonna be a grand opening.
Annie I thought y'all was done with the Delta. Last I heard, y'all were northern men.
Nah, we through with Chicago.
Annie Chicago through with y'all?
What you asking?
Annie Who you and Stack robbed to get enough money for them crackers to sell you a whole mill?
I can’t believe you taking this make-believe shit.
Annie [holds up a razor blade to Smoke's neck]
Smoke, give me my money ‘fore I cut your Black ass.
You can put that blade up, woman. I’ll trade ya. [holds up cash wad]
Annie I don’t want your money.
Don’t be stupid, now.
Annie I ain’t stupid. Your money come with blood.
All money come with blood, baby. [puts away cash wad]
Annie Not like yours.
This shit won’t even spend nowhere else. Look at it.
Annie I ain’t goin’ nowhere else. I don’t need that cursed money you got. [she takes dollar bill]
You know, woman, I been all over this world. In cars, ships, trains. I seen men die ways I didn’t even know was possible. I ain’t never saw no roots, no demons… no ghosts, no magic. Just power. And only money can get you that.
Annie You fool. All that war, or whatever the hell else you been doin’ in Chicago, and you back here in front of me. Two arms, two legs, two eyes, and a brain that work. How you know I ain’t pray... and work every root my grandmama taught me to keep you and that crazy brother of yours safe every day since you been gone?
So why those roots ain’t work on our baby, then?
Annie I don’t know. But they work for you. [places hand on Smoke's chest with him placing his hand on hers] You still got that mojo bag. [Smoke opens jacket] Soil of my soil, bone of my bone, blood of my blood. I bless you. Ashe. Why you here, Smoke? What you want with me?
We was hopin’ to serve food at the juke tonight. We want you to cook for us.
Annie Elijah.
You gonna make me say it? It still hurts coming back here. But I love ya. And I miss ya.
Annie [places hand on his crotch and speaks in Yoruba ]
Your body ain’t forget me. [Smoke makes love to her]
You fellers must be the owners of this establishment.
That's right. And you are?
Name's Remmick. This here's Joan and Bert.
Hey Stack, y'all alright?
Aww, and you... must be that voice I heard from out here. Aw, it was beautiful.
God damn bee-yew-tiful voice.
Even through these walls.
Where y'all from?
Just down the road.
And how far is that?
North Carolina.
Y'all Klan?
[offended]
Sir... w-we believe in equality and music. We just came here to play. Spend some money, have a good time. Here, I'll show you.
[Remmick, Joan, and Bert play "Picked Poor Robin Clean" on the banjo. The others watch in confusion, though Stack chuckles and nods along a bit.] [stopping the music after a bit]
Hold on hold on, just a minute.
Aw, its just about to get good.
Nah I believe ya. But this here a juke joint.
Blues music.
Well we've got money and we ready to spend it with y'all.
Soundin' damn near perfect and you're saying we ain't welcome.
Nah I'm saying you get down that road and get back into town. Plenty of white barrel houses down there.
[chuckles]
Aw this- this cuz we're... [gestures to skin] Alright. [Points at Mary] How'd she get in?
Now that is none-
Annie [interrupting]
She here cuz she family.
Family... [sighs] Can- can we just, for one night, just all be family? [he steps forward, and Smoke reaches for his gun] Y-you don't need to do that, sir. We'll be on our way. But we're gonna walk real slow, just in case y'all change your mind.
Y'all smell anything?
Annie No.
I think I shat myself.
How can it move and sound like Stack if it ain't Stack?
Annie I only ever heard stories. I ain't never come across them myself.
Pearline
What stories you heard?
Annie How haints work; they switch places with the soul of a man. But vampires is different... maybe the worst kind: The soul gets stuck in the body. Can't rejoin the ancestors... cursed to live here with all this hate. Can't even feel the warmth of a sunrise.
Bo
Hey, baby. Come on outside, I got the car started Let's go. [Grace doesn't move] Come on, Grace.
...he's killin' him.
Bo
[He glances over to Cornbread, who's killing a juke patron]
Oh, you talking about that? Don't worry about Cornbread. He's just a little hungry, that's all. Let's go, come on.
Bo
[Grace just stares at him. There's blood on the back of his shirt.]
Come on and go. I got the car warmed up. [He looks back to Grace, obviously unamused] Or... you let me back in there, and I'll come in and we can grab our things and head home.
Annie Don't listen to him.
Grace, we're gonna find a way out of this, I promise.
I am your way out. This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build, won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever.
Bo
It's better this way, baby. So why don't you go ahead and invite us in?
You should listen to him, Grace, or listen to me. Because I know everything he knows now, and I want you to let us in there. Or we're gonna go to the grocery store, we're gonna pay little Lisa a visit.
No, no, no, don’t you **** dare!
Oh, yeah, Grace, I know everything now. [he starts speaking Toisan] Even how you like to be licked. I can promise I won't bite too hard.
You're the devil, ain't you?
Sammie! You're the one I came for. I sensed you. I want to see my people again, I'm trapped here. But your gifts can bring them to me. Y'all give them to me now. Just- just give me little Sammie. We'll let y'all live.
I'm gonna tell you something, you goddamn peckerwood. You can't have him. He belongs to us. He belongs with us! And I ain't gonna let that happen.
You can't save him, Smoke - no more than you could save your brother.
[Stack walks up to Club Juke, laughing and carrying Mary in his arms]
You ain't safe here. No matter how many guns or how much money, they gonna take it from you when they want. You built something here tonight, and it was beautiful. But it was built on a lie. Hogwood? Well, he's the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. [He points to Bert] That's his mother**** nephew! They was always gonna kill you - I just happened to show up at the right place at the right time.
He telling the truth, Smoke. I can see his memories.
Smoke, that ain't your brother.
This wasn't no juke joint, no club. This is a... slaughterhouse.
It's a goddamn killing floor.
But what Uncle Hogwood don't know is we gonna start ourselves a new Klan based on love.
Now that we got numbers, we'll probably go to that old bigot and rectify him, too.
Annie Why can't y'all just go?
Because we're not leaving without y'all. We family. Ain't that right? I know it sound crazy, but... after we kill y'all, we're gonna have heaven right here on Earth!
Cornbread
Slim! Smoke!
Where the hell you been at, man? Huh?
Cornbread
To go see a man about a dog, like I told you, you old drunk. Turns out I need to take a shit, too. [Noticing that Smoke is covered in blood] God Dog! What happened to you, Smoke?
Stack dead. ****, what the **** happened to you?
Cornbread
I'm sorry. All right, well, let me in, so I can help.
Annie: Hold on.
Cornbread
What y'all doin'? Just step aside and let me on in, now.
Annie Why do you need him to do that? You big and strong enough to push past us.
Cornbread
Well, that wouldn't be too polite now, would it, Miss Annie. I don't know why I'm talking to you anyway. Probably your fish sandwich messed up my guts in the first place. Usin' old, stale grease.
Annie [Defensively]
I ain't never used stale grease, and you know it.
Cornbread
Shut up, Annie. Smoke...
Annie Don't talk to him. You talkin' to me right now. Why can't you just walk your big ass up in here without an invite, huh? Go 'head. Admit to it.
Cornbread
Admit to what?
Annie That you dead. That one of them white folks out there kill you, and you a haint now.
Cornbread
[Laughs]
Smoke, you listenin' to this? Woman, this man showed me kindness. Employed me. Grabbed me out of the field. Now, he say his brother been killed. The man needs comfort, not you fillin' up his mind with that old Louisiana bayou bullshit you on. Now, we out here playing games, telling ghost stories in place of doin' what we ought to do.
And what is it we s'pose to be doin'?
Cornbread
[Spreading out his arms]
Being kind to one another. And bein' polite. Now, we is one people's. And we shouldn't go in, bargin' into other folks' places uninvited. So...
You been in and outta here all day. Ain't never need an invite then. Yeah, somethin' ain't addin' up.
Cornbread
Shit, Stack was my ride up here. I 'posed to walk back?
That ain't my problem.
Cornbread
Well, it be, your own peoples. And I thought you was better than this, but you just like the white man. Can I at least get my money?
Oh you did such a bang-up job, now you wanna to get paid for what you ain't did.
Cornbread
Ain't nobody talkin' to you, you old drunk. Shut your mouth.
No, you shut the **** up. Don't give him shit, Smoke. Don't give him nothin'. [Smoke is taking money out of his pocket]
Annie Careful.