3.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Stay (2025)
Stay (2025)
Overview
Stay is a supernatural horror thriller directed by Jas Summers. Megalyn Echikunwoke stars as Kiara, a scholar of African spirituality, and Mo McRae as Miles, her estranged husband and former MMA fighter. As their marriage dissolves, otherworldly forces trap the couple in their home, compelling them to confront their issues.
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
3.8
Overview
Stay is a supernatural horror thriller directed by Jas Summers. Megalyn Echikunwoke stars as Kiara, a scholar of African spirituality, and Mo McRae as Miles, her estranged husband and former MMA fighter. As their marriage dissolves, otherworldly forces trap the couple in their home, compelling them to confront their issues.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
HuluDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's core conflict centers on a Black couple's failing marriage disrupted by supernatural forces tied to African spirituality, compelling them to confront personal grief and traumas. This narrative prioritizes individual emotional resolution over any ideological or political framing, resulting in a balanced, apolitical exploration of relationships and healing.
The film showcases Black actors in lead roles portraying a couple navigating marital strife amid supernatural events rooted in African spirituality. This casting choice highlights visible diversity, while the story emphasizes emotional reconciliation without critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
This elevated horror dissects a fraying marriage through supernatural entrapment, ultimately affirming the redemptive potential of commitment and forgiveness over dissolution, with ancestral spirituality underscoring enduring bonds amid dread.
The film features no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on a heterosexual couple's marital strife amid supernatural events.
The film contains no transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a heterosexual couple navigating marital dissolution amid supernatural occurrences, offering no portrayal of transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Stay presents an original story centered on a contemporary couple facing supernatural elements in their failing marriage, with no adaptations, legacy characters, or historical figures involved, precluding any gender swaps.
Stay (2025) presents original characters in a new supernatural thriller narrative, with no established racial baselines from source material, historical figures, or prior adaptations, leading to no instances of race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
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3.2
4.4
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