MOONSHINE: SINNERS

I gotta show some love to the movie Sinners, which basically did Moonshine before I could. I love Sinners. Love, love, love. It's a fantastic film any horror fan should appreciate. It's the best vampire movie I've seen for years. I love horror that takes place in the past. History is horror. Ryan Coogler understands this. Way better than I ever could, for the past in Sinners is the past of his people; the past in Moonshine is my understanding of the Deep South. I gotta acknowledge that Sinners did have some impact on my book, even if I came up with the idea in 2021 (funnily enough, in a dream where I was going to see it as a perfect popcorn-flick movie -- what Sinners is). The impact Sinners had was in the final section where Angie, our black character, is like this kickass Rambo taking on the Klan with rifles and killing scores of them -- that was inspired by the very end of Sinners. Otherwise, I'd had this idea stewing in my head for four years. If anything, I ripped myself off.

1. The prom night sequence was a rip-off from the wedding sequence in First Howl.

2. Governor Stewart is for all intents and purposes an update of Lord John Goddard from First Howl.

3. The family dynamic in the book is a lift from Salem to Salem.

4. The main character has a brother that depends on them just like in First Howl.

5. The Angie half is a lift from First Howl.

6. Stewart's family suffer nearly the same fate as Goddard's family in First Howl.