Netflix’s newly released psych-thriller ‘The Strays’ has recently been released on the online streaming platform.
The new Netflix thriller is the directorial debut of actor and playwright Nathaniel Martello-White.
Storyline
The Strays revolves around Ashley Madekwe who stars as Neve, a light-skinned Black woman who abandons her lower-class life with her abusive husband and two darker-skinned Black children.
Though she never hides her race, she essentially begins to ‘pass’ as an upper-class white woman in her new life and seems uncomfortable with Black culture.
She never tells her white husband and their two mixed children about her former family… until her two children from her past life return to haunt her. These siblings, Carl and Dione, are determined to get their mother back by any means necessary.
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Cast
Ashley Madekwe (County Lines) as Neve
Justin Salinger (Enduring Love)
Michael Warburton (SuperBob) as Kenneth
Caroline Martin (Happy-Go-Lucky) as Jessie
Bukky Bakray (Rocks) as Dione
Maria Almeida (Pretty Red Dress) as Mary
Samuel Paul Small (Game of Thrones) as Sebastian
Alfredo Tavares (Blackmail) as Smart Customer
Jordan Myrie (Dancing in the Dark) as Carl
Izzy Billingham as Emily
Vanessa Bailey (The First Team) as Elle
George Greenland (Eastenders) as Delivery Guy
Jordan Bailey (Cookster: The Darkest Days) as Student
Ruby Lethbridge as School Pupil
Release date
The British horror-thriller movie The Strays began streaming on Netflix on Wednesday, February 22.
Is ‘The Strays’ a copy of ‘Get Out’?
Netflix’s latest British thriller, ‘The Strays’ initially feels similar to ‘Get Out’. If anything, it hews even closer to Get Out, as it drops the supernatural allegory and horror imagery in favor of something more psychologically real, more disturbingly close to the surface of society.
However, that’s even more difficult to execute tonally — and writer-director Nathaniel Martello-White, making his feature debut, doesn’t pull it off — at least, not until the movie’s final moments.
