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• Horror
• Thriller

• 2022
• Nathaniel Martello-White
• 99 mins
• 15

Summary

A perfect life... a perfect lie... An upper-middle-class woman's meticulously crafted life of privilege starts to unravel when two strangers show up in her quaint suburban town. A British horror thriller Starring Ashley Madekwe, Bukky Bakray and Jorden Myrie.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Emma Simmonds

A woman's past comes back to taunt her in the directorial debut of Nat Martello-White. When Black retail worker Cheryl (Ashley Madekwe) walks away from her high-rise flat, she does so in order to reinvent herself in leafy suburbia as a prim and proper snob named Neve. Marrying a wealthy white man (Justin Salinger) and raising two teens (Samuel Small and Maria Almeida), she ends up in deep denial about her Blackness. The excellent Jorden Myrie and Bukky Bakray (Rocks) feature as individuals from Cheryl's past, whose reappearance threatens both her carefully ordered new life, and her sanity. Evoking Jordan Peele's Get Out in its nightmarish depiction of fears regarding race, this is a cleverly conceived, fitfully tense satire. Though it can feel disjointed, and the horror could have done with dialling up, The Strays takes a satisfyingly enraged and confrontational approach to the whitewashing of a life.

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4.9/10

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Credits

Cast

rolenameNeve / CherylAshley MadekweAbigailBukky BakrayMarvinJorden MyrieSebastianSamuel Paul SmallMaryMaria AlmeidaIanJustin Salinger

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rolenameDirectorNathaniel Martello-White

Details

Released on

2023-02-22

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing, a sex scene, drug abuse

Formats

Colour

News & features about The Strays

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  The Strays ending explained: What happens to Neve?
  
  The new Netflix thriller is the directorial debut of actor and playwright Nathaniel Martello-White.

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  The Strays star explains movie's ‘sacrificial, cyclical’ ending
  
  Bukky Bakray speaks exclusively with RadioTimes.com about the shocking ending to the new Netflix film.

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  The Strays director on true story that inspired new Netflix film
  
  Nathaniel Martello-White speaks exclusively to RadioTimes.com about his tense thriller.

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