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Snakes in Movies   Sinners (2025)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is a film about singing and dancing vampires who prey on poor sharecroppers in rural Mississippi in 1932. After seven years of living the gangster life in Chicago, two twin brothers named Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) who wear different colored hats so we can tell them apart, move back to the small town they fled and buy an old mill to turn into a juke joint. Much of the movie is filled with great blues music and Celtic folk music sung by the vampires, the rest is filled with blood and gore, including a snake that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the beginning, roughly 13 minutes in, the SmokeStack twins bring their young blues-musician cousin Sammie (Miles Caton) to a truck they have hidden that's full of stolen Irish beer and Italian wine that they plan to take to the juke joint. Trying to be helpful, Sammie pulls away some palm fronds only to find a rattlesnake coiled up on the truck. Stack tells Sammie "Don't move" as he pulls out a large knife with a brass knuckles handle. He tosses the knife to Smoke, who is closer to the snake. As the rattlesnake strikes out at him, Smoke stabs it in the head with the knife. Then he throws the snake to the ground and we see blood pumping out of its head as it writhes around for the last time. There's some witchcraft or folk magic and supernatural lore in the film, so maybe the snake was supposed to represent some kind of evil demon, but more likely it was just included to show us how tough and capable the twins are and that they work together well. It's the common snake trope of a protagonist proving himself by killing a snake, but I'm a naive snake-hugger, so this sort of knee-jerk reaction to dramatically kill a snake instead of simply moving it away with a stick seems more cowardly to me than heroic. Yes, I know - nobody goes to a film to watch the humane treatment of animals. The audience demands blood, and they get it here. And lots more human blood later on. The rattlesnake is not very realistic CGI, but I give the animators extra credit for making it look like a native Mississippi Timber Rattlesnake, also known as a Canebrake. In the old days the filmmakers would have used shots of a live Canebrake on a truck then replaced it with a dead or fake snake for the stabbing in the head part. But these days that might be more problematic than relying on CGI, so now all we ever see is these damned computer animated snakes. Someday they'll replace all the actors with AI CGI creations. When that happens, I'll let my android clone watch movies for me.