i keep forgetting to make this post so maybe someone else has finally pointed it out but i haven't actually seen a lot of discussion about the snake in the back of the truck in sinners! the symbolism/foreshadowing in that sequence is so cool to me, at least that's how i interpreted it. everything in this film is so intentional and deliberate, i find it hard to believe it wasn't put there for a reason.
sammie is the one to accidentally uncover the snake (sammie is the one remmick comes for)
(not only that but he uncovers it in his eagerness to get the day started, involving himself in something he shouldn't, touching things he shouldn't - fast forward to his talk with smoke in the upper floor of the juke when smoke threatens to kill him if he plays another show/doesn't listen to him about the world because he'll get himself hurt if he pursues this blindly)
smoke is the one to kill it (he is the one who deals the final blow to remmick and mows down the klansmen at the end)
it's a snake; the serpent in the garden of eden; the devil ("you keep dancing with the devil, one day he's gonna follow you home." so, again, remmick and imo even the klansmen because let's be real they are the epitome of evil)
he stabs it with stack's knife (using the weapon of someone he loved and trusted; the way he killed remmick was by trusting annie's instructions on how to kill vampires, and the way he killed the klansmen was by using weapons he and stack shared and coveted after their experience together in war; he can't kill these things By Himself, he relies on those he loves, there is no him without them and without love)
he even stabs it on the left side of its head (the exact place that the silver in sammie's guitar lodges into remmick's head in the lake, weakening him enough to BE staked and killed by the sunrise)
i just think it's neat!
