When Sinners director Ryan Coogler went to the movies as a child, he would smuggle in some snacks - and get particularly creative with the cinema's drinks machine.
"I'm not a big soda person, but when they started to let you mix and match the drinks, I got involved with that," he told Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast recently.
Decades later, Coogler's taste for combining a wide variety of flavours can be seen in his genre-defying best picture contender, which blends blues music with vampire horror against the backdrop of the 1930s Mississippi Delta.
Sinners could take several statuettes at this weekend's Oscars, but it faces tough competition from co-frontrunner One Battle After Another, in a genuinely exciting year for the awards race where several categories are too close to call.
Here are 17 fun facts to sink your vampire fangs into ahead of the Academy Awards this Sunday.
