Well, we’re definitely starting this one off with a bang! While we don’t
know much about what’s going on so far, we do know that this is classified as horror,
so this is just par for the course. This is 2020’s The Sinners.
Spoiler alert. For those of you that wish to watch this film on your own time,
links to the film are in the description. This definitely feels like a prologue to The
Purge, but it turns out that that gaggle of friends kills the girl. As the opening
credits roll, Aubrey reads the love chapter from the bible, and we find Aubrey dead with
a rose in her mouth. Finally, Aubrey lets us know that this story is about how her
body ended up at the bottom of the lake. When we go back in time, we see Hannah and Grace
getting their makeup on, and we find out that there is a big religious tone in this household.
At the school, we meet Katie who pulls up in a brand new car, and a bunch of
other girls pour out of her car. As Aubrey sees her friends arrive,
she goes to meet up with them, but the girl she’s sitting with warns her that they are no good.
Soon, Aubrey explains that their little group is called the Sins. Growing up in a religious
town has its pros and cons, and the Sins loved the attention they got for who they were.
Now, Aubrey gives us a quick rundown of who all is in th group. Katie is Greed, Stacey is Envy,
Robyn is Sloth, Molly is Gluttony, Tori is Wrath, Aubrey is Pride, and Grace is Lust.
I can tell you, I’m a sucker for any films or shows that show off the seven deadly sins,
so this is already a win for me. After a little outburst in class,
we can see why Tori was given the sin of wrath as she is sent to the principal’s office.
Aubrey goes on to explain that she really didn’t mind being a part of the circle, and she even
loved being friends with Grace. Yet, recently, she’s been feeling envious towards Grace,
and that wasn’t even her sin. Meanwhile, Sheriff Fred goes
to check on his wife, Maggie. Maggie! Maggie! This is a Christian school!
Actually, it shouldn’t even matter that it’s Christian. This is a school miss lady!
Maggie tells Fred that he has nine minutes before the next bell, and he jumps on the chance.
Sure enough, he’s walking the halls well before the bell goes off, and we cut over to Grace and
Tori in the parking lot. Here we meet Kit, and he wants to talk to Grace privately.
He drives them to a lake side road, and he apologizes for his behavior the night before.
They begin to kiss, but when Grace pulls away, he begins to lose his patience with her.
Grace leaves him there and walks through the woods until she runs into Summer.
Do we just run into woodland people in this town? This random woman seems to know that
Grace likes Tori, and she knows that she hasn’t told anyone yet. Not to mention, is Kit really
getting mad because Grace wanted to take things slow? You’re dating a Christian girl in a VERY
Christian town. What was he really expecting?! Soon, Grace comes up to a shop based out of a van,
and she finds Andy inside. She talks to him about running into Summer a second before, and he tells
her that he cut his hand while making something for Summer. After he cleans up the blood, Grace
goes out to run the storefront, and the principal shows up to buy a succulent for his house.
That night, Grace sits down with her family for dinner, and her father, the pastor, tells her
that someone came to confess some things about her. He tells her that he knows about the Sins,
and he doesn’t want her being around anyone that isn’t part of the church community anymore.
Why is it always the pastor’s kids that are the rebellious ones? Honestly,
she’s not even being that bad, but she’s literally making a mockery of
their religion at the dinner table. I laughed my butt off, but that’s beside the point!
That night, in the woods, women gather to call on Lucifer, and after a ritual is performed,
we see that Grace is one of the members involved. It turns out that it’s all in her head,
but Grace feels as though she’s part of a real invocation.
How is this little coven reaching Grace through her dreams?! She even wakes up at 3:33. Granted
that’s a little after the witching hour, but the premise is still there.
The next morning, Grace dresses in a small black dress and heels, and Tori can’t believe what
she sees. As Grace goes through class, she catches her principal peeking at her assets,
but the focus here is that Aubrey leaves the classroom to go to the bathroom. The remaining
Sins steal Aubrey’s journal, and it doesn’t look like what they found is good news.
In the lot behind the school, six of the Sins gather to talk about Aubrey’s journal. In it,
they found out that Aubrey is the one that talked to the pastor. The group finds out
that Aubrey actually knows way more about all their indiscretions than she lets on,
and they decide that they need to scare her into keeping her mouth shut from now on.
That night, Grace gathers the girls at her house for a little bible study,
and when Aubrey arrives, Grace begins to chant the same chant she heard in her dream. Suddenly,
Aubrey begins to realize that this isn’t the bible study she had thought it was going to be.
What did it for her? The Latin that they’re chanting or the cheesy devil horns Grace puts on
her head? Grace should’ve gone to Spirit Halloween and picked up some of those realistic ones.
She probably would’ve sent Aubrey into a religious fit by seeing them.
Grace decides that it’s time to take their sins to the next level, and some of the girls
rip up Aubrey’s bible. When Grace and Tori kiss, it seems to make some other members
realize their real sexuality. When Grace makes Aubrey put a hunting rifle in Grace’s mouth,
it seems to be the last straw for Aubrey. Aubrey admits that she should’ve been scared
into not saying anything, but she couldn’t help but to tell the pastor what had happened.
While I’m not condoning murder, she was fairly warned. Unless you’re 100%
sure it was a bluff, you do not just tattle to the daddy priest. You go to the police or
keep your mouth shut. She could’ve just stopped being friends with them and gone off on her own,
and everything probably would’ve been peachy keen. Also, where did these Christian girls
find chloroform in their sleepy, little town? They kidnap Aubrey and take her to a lake cabin
where Tori starts to hurt Aubrey. After they decide to talk to her instead, Aubrey disappears
into the forest. As the girls search for her, After they can’t find her, the girls head out, and
Aubrey continues to wander the forest. That night, Grace stays up and reads Aubrey’s journal, and
she begins to weep as she regrets her actions. The next morning, everyone goes about their normal
school day, but Aubrey is missing from class. When the principal comes to class to retrieve the Sins,
they hurriedly decide to deny everything. They are still thinking that Aubrey made it home
and is waiting to tell on them, but when Grace is brought into the office, she’s met by the Sheriff.
He tells her that Aubrey is missing, but Grace doesn’t give them anything to go off of.
Eventually, they go through all of the girls, but questioning them seems to get them nowhere in
their investigation. When they get back to class, they notice that someone has scribbled the seven
sins on Grace’s death and crossed out Pride. There’s another psycho in the school now?
Or maybe it’s Aubrey, and she’s embraced her dark side. Yeah. I highly doubt that,
but how could anyone have scribbled that in the middle of class, and no one knows who did it?
That’s either supernatural or a plot hole. That afternoon when Katie goes home,
she is kidnapped by a masked figure. While everyone is at a vigil for Aubrey,
Katie is shown being tied up in a barn, and the figure takes a blowtorch. Soon after,
Katie’s body was found with a rose in her mouth, and Greed is crossed off of Grace’s desk.
During the funeral, we see that Katie has a huge turnout.
When Aubrey’s father gets up to talk, he rallies the support of just about everyone there.
I feel like they just made a whole little section for cowboys there and told them to wait until that
line to jump up and almost start a search party. He put his hat on and everything for it!
As we see members of the community start to crack, but Grace and the others keep their
composure as best they can. Out in the parking lot, Grace listens to Andy give him condolences
until Sheriff Fred shows up and arrests him for the murder of Katie. Apparently, Andy’s
gardening gloves were found by Katie’s body. That night at dinner, Grace’s family is quieter
than usual, and her father doesn’t help make things any better. He talks about
how he had warned Grace away from Andy, and he goes on to say that that’s two dead
friends that could have easily been her. Wait. How does he know that both of the girls
are dead. Last I remember, Aubrey is still only missing in the town’s eyes. Sounds sus to me.
Grace heads upstairs and calls for a friend to come pick her up,
and she grabs Aubrey’s journal while she waits. Eventually, Tori comes to pick her up,
and Grace says that they need to burn the journal before someone finds it. Grace blames herself for
everything that has happened, and she’s worried that it isn’t going to stop anytime soon.
After they get to the cabin, we cut to the man in a mask that has kidnapped another girl,
and he is dosing her with something. As he goes to cut her, the screen cuts back to Grace and Tori.
They burn the journal in the fireplace, and Tori consoles her as best as she can. As Grace tells
her that she loves her, the two of them get a little more personal with each other.
I feel like we haven’t addressed the other girls in awhile, and I don’t like how hyper
focused we are on these two. It’s the seven deadly sins. Not the two buddy sins.
Grace soon remembers that they need to destroy the masks too, and Tori goes out to her car to
get them. When she’s out there, she hears rustling and a dog growling.
She immediately runs back inside and tells Grace that she thinks someone is outside.
Meanwhile, the masked man has killed another one, and we see him taking a picture of a
pentagram he carved on her stomach. When Grace and Tori go out to investigate,
they find Molly’s dead body in the field. What happens when the Sheriff shows up at Grace’s
house is almost a complete turnaround for her family. The Sheriff shows up to ask Grace and
Tori more questions, but Grace’s mother and father kind of go at the Sheriff and tell him he needs to
do his job better and pray more. Even when the Sheriff mockingly asks if praying more would
help him solve crimes, the pastor says that at least the wrong man wouldn’t be behind bars.
Oh snap! I still don’t like him or trust him, but suspicious pastor gets points for that.
In a crazed emotional moment, Grace and Tori stomp out of the house as they yell that it’s all their
fault. When they get into the car, they start to blame each other for where they are, and they
scream as they try to let out how they feel. Meanwhile, the masked man has another one,
and he’s taking a picture of her to commemorate the moment. Grace and Tori make their way to
Andy’s van, but when he answers the door, he doesn’t want to be any more involved since
he had already been framed for the murders before. He does tell them that whoever is
doing this has planned everything out. They had his gloves, stole flowers from the shop,
and the toxicology reports showed bleach which is used in the preservatives for flowers.
After letting that bit slip, Andy and Summer go back inside and close the door on Grace’s face.
In town, Sheriff Fred is trying to piece the puzzle together when he finds out that the
pastor has called some high up friends. He finds two of his former partners from
the city are in his office, and they say that they’re there to clean up his mess and handle
the case that he can’t seem to solve. Honestly, the way they talk to him is SO
disrespectful. Even if he was a bad cop before, he’s the sheriff of a whole town. He still
deserves some respect, but these guys are just belittling him as much as they can at the moment.
They even put down the little deputy! Poor guy didn’t do anything to them.
Grace doesn’t seem to be handling the stress of the situation too well, and Tori tries to coach
her through controlling her anxiety. Once she’s composed herself, Grace decides that they need
to return to the cabin for some reason. At the same time, the masked man has yet another girl!
This time, she isn’t dead when he takes a picture of her, and the man ends up shooting her.
Grace and Tori pull up to the cabin, and when Grace finds the front door open,
she gets a little cautious as she looks around inside.
Obviously, that one girl is Aubrey. Can’t miss the hair. This whole time I’ve been
feeling sorry for her, but now I’m thinking she teamed up with the creepy pastor to put the fear
of god into the town. Like a Christian Batman and Robin. Weirder things have happened.
The police officers show up at the coroner’s house, and they try to find the files on Aubrey’s
case, but the deputy finds the polaroids that the masked man has been taking of the girls.
Just as they piece things together, we go over to the cabin where we find Aubrey and Feldman
have tied up Grace. As Aubrey makes herself known, Grace can’t believe her eyes.
Sheriff makes his old colleagues leave town, and he compliments the deputy for
putting two and two together for them. I actually didn’t even know there was an
‘unforgivable’ sin. Isn’t that kind of the whole premise of Christianity?
The ability to have all your sins forgiven. I might be a little rusty on this one,
but maybe one of you knows something I don’t. Aubrey goes on to talk about the next few people
she plans to save the same way. Grace tries to ask for forgiveness,
but Aubrey still thinks she has to cleanse the Earth of her wickedness. The more Aubrey
delves into how she used Feldman to make her plan perfect, the more maniacal she seems.
This seems like a pointless double cross. Feldman is still going to jail for murder.
Maybe he was just tired of hearing Aubrey babble on? Either way, Aubrey’s face keeping the exact
same expression as she gets shot makes that a nice little memorable moment.
As Sheriff heads to the cabin, Feldman makes Grace and Tori drop Aubrey’s body in the lake.
When they go back inside, Feldman tries to make them agree to take the blame for everything,
but Sheriff Fred shows up. Feldman shoots Fred, Tori disarms Feldman,
and she shoots him in the head. This was a quick resolution where they
don’t even give you time to let it sink in before it moves to the next thing. I still like it,
but I still have more questions. Like who is Feldman afraid of if he was to go to prison?
When the deputy comes in, he calls for an ambulance to pick up the sheriff, and he
brings the girls in for questioning. As the last of the love chapter is narrated, the deputy drives
off with the girls, and the credits roll. In light of some of the movies I’ve watched
recently, it’s nice to have a movie that actually had me on my toes a couple times. The use of the
seven deadly sins is always a win in my book, and they used that with the mixture of a religious
town perfectly. Definitely give it a shot. Thank you for watching, and I hope you enjoyed
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