3.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Stay (2025)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 3.4
Overview
Kiara, a PhD author on African spirituality, and Miles, a former MMA fighter turned trainer, facing the end of their marriage. They encounter supernatural forces and go from fighting one another to fighting for their lives. To survive, they must conquer darkness with love.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
HuluBias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Overview
Kiara, a PhD author on African spirituality, and Miles, a former MMA fighter turned trainer, facing the end of their marriage. They encounter supernatural forces and go from fighting one another to fighting for their lives. To survive, they must conquer darkness with love.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
HuluDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film focuses on apolitical themes of personal and relational healing, grief, and love, utilizing African spirituality and Black cultural experience as a narrative and thematic framework rather than engaging in U.S. partisan politics or ideological commentary.
The movie *Stay* demonstrates significant DEI by centering a Black couple as protagonists and featuring an African American director. Its narrative respectfully explores African spirituality and Black cultural experiences, contributing to diversified representation in the horror genre.
Secondary
Stay (2025) focuses on a heterosexual Black couple's emotional and spiritual journey through grief and healing, encountering supernatural forces. The film does not explicitly portray LGBTQ+ characters or themes, nor does it foreground queer identity. Its narrative centers on universal themes of relationship breakdown and reconciliation within a specific cultural context, without engaging with LGBTQ+ representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Stay" (2025) is an original story, not an adaptation of prior source material or historical events. Its characters, Kiara and Miles, are new creations whose on-screen genders are consistent with their established identities within the film's narrative, with no discrepancies from any pre-existing canon.
The film "Stay" is an original screenplay and not based on any prior source material. As such, there are no pre-established character races from canon or history to compare against the on-screen portrayals, meaning no race swap occurred.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
3.0
3.9
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