STORY: This is Clarksdale, Mississippi... famously known as the ‘Birthplace of the Blues’.

Trading guitar riffs for jump scares, the city served as a fictional setting for 'Sinners,' a Hollywood horror hit.

:: Warner Bros

Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sinners is set in 1932 Mississippi and follows twin brothers who return home to open a juke joint, only for the night to spiral into violence.

The movie is set to become a summer hit, after already raking in more than $330 million worldwide.

Yet, there isn’t a single movie theater in Clarksdale where people can watch the film.

Locals would have had to travel over an hour to see it in the nearest theater.

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But that’s about to change after community activists gathered over 6,000 signatures to petition Sinners' director and cast to bring a public screening to Clarksdale.

Local entrepreneur Dave Houston hopes that the movie will create more opportunities for his town:

“We want Clarksdale here to come back home, come back to represent your city, come back and finally we start to see our city making a change for the betterment because we want to see growth. We want to see people come in and invest and if we showing the world that we can pack a civic auditorium that's not a movie theater with 1,400 people. I think that we deserve a movie theater.”

Warner Bros. will host free screenings of Sinners in Clarksdale from May 29 to 31 at the Civic Auditorium.