The 'Sinners' mid-credit and post-credit scenes explained — and why one leaves the door open for a sequel

• "Sinners" has a mid-credit and a post-credit scene.
• The new film, starring Michael B. Jordan, is Ryan Coogler's first original film in over a decade.
• The "Sinners" mid-credit scene has a twist that hints at a sequel, but one hasn't been confirmed.

Warning: spoilers ahead for "Sinners."

Fans who have waited a decade for a new original movie directed by Ryan Coogler after his blockbuster hits "Black Panther" and "Creed" will be excited to know that the movie's two credit scenes may open the door for a sequel (although one hasn't been confirmed).

The highly anticipated movie stars Michael B. Jordan, who has appeared in all of Coogler's movies, as Smoke and Stack: a pair of shady twins who want to open a juke joint in 1930s Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Miles Caton, an R&B singer who makes his acting debut in "Sinners," plays the third protagonist, Sammie Moore, the son of a preacher who aspires to be a musician and leave his small town.

Ignoring his father's request to give up music, Sammie joins his older cousins, Smoke and Stack, to perform at the opening night of the juke joint, using the guitar they gave him.

But Sammie accidentally summons a vampire, Remmick (Jack O'Connell), who wants his ability to spiritually connect with people from the past and future with his music.

Remmick picks off the patrons and workers of the juke joint one by one, including Stack and his former flame Mary (Hailee Steinfeld), converting them into zombie-like vampires who are telepathically connected to him.

Things take a turn for the worse when one of the workers allows the vampires to enter the juke joint to slaughter the remaining survivors.

The "Sinners" mid-credit scene reveals that Sammie isn't the only survivor.

Sammie and Smoke are seemingly the only survivors that night, and vanquish Remmick and his cult of vampires with the sunrise.

But the fight isn't over, because Remmick warned Smoke that a group of KKK clansmen were coming in the morning to kill everyone in the juke joint.

Smoke sends Sammie home, telling him to bury the guitar, which is now broken, to avoid summoning more monsters.

Smoke ambushes the Klansmen, killing them, but he dies from his injuries, allowing him to join his lover and daughter in the afterlife.

Meanwhile, Sammie goes to his church, where his father begs him to drop the guitar and quit music. Sammie jumps in a car with the broken guitar and flees his hometown.

The film ends 60 years in the future, with an older Sammie (played by Buddy Guy, a Grammy-winning blues guitarist) performing as a blues musician in Chicago, the city Sammie said he wanted to visit earlier in the movie to follow in his cousin's footsteps.

Visuals of this performance continue through the first set of credits before the first bonus scene.

This scene shows Sammie at the bar after his performance, when a bouncer tells him he has a visitor.

Without thinking, Sammie says they can enter, and in walk Mary and Stack, who have not aged.

An earlier scene showed Smoke about to kill Stack. But Stack explains that Smoke let him live as long as he stayed away from Sammie.

Stack and Mary somehow survived the sunrise that killed the other vampires and have stayed in the shadows ever since, listening to Sammie's music. Stack offers to turn Sammie into a vampire, but he declines, saying he has seen enough of the world.

When Stack says he prefers Sammie's older music, he performs using his old guitar from earlier in the film, which has been mended.

They reminisce over the time before the vampire attack, then Stack and Mary leave and the scene ends.

This emotional bonus scene opens the door for a sequel. Another film could explore the missing 60 years of Stack and Mary's story, or explore their journey after 1992.

It's also plausible that more vampires could have survived the sunrise like Stack and Mary.

Alternatively, a sequel could explore another mystical monster as the world of "Sinners" is established as one filled with the supernatural.

Coogler told Ebony magazine on Tuesday that he didn't think about the film becoming a franchise while making the movie.

"I never think about that," he said.

It would be Coogler's decision to continue the story because he owns the rights to "Sinners," rather than Warner Bros., which produced and distributed the movie. Coogler told Business Insider earlier this month that he asked for the rights because he wanted to own his film about Black ownership.

Fans may be disappointed by the second credit scene

There's a brief flashback in the film of Sammie playing his guitar at his church.

The post-credit scene shows that flashback in totality, with Sammie playing and singing "This Little Light of Mine."

This scene doesn't add much to the story and may have been included as another opportunity to display Caton's singing talents.

Though Caton has been performing since he was a teenager, the singer has only officially released one single and has under 300 listeners on Spotify, which means "Sinners" could become his breakout moment.