Stay

This is not a terrible movie. It has a good arch, you get to follow the decline of the relationship and mental health of the main character. It has some decent scares midway through the movie and the home video type of filming is rather unsettling. The issue is poor acting and a pretty bad script. The lines are forced and unnatural which might explain the acting. Jesse LeNoir does a decent job as the boyfriend Julian. Seriously if you want a Russian janitor, get a Russian to do it as that was the most horrid fake accent I have heard in a long time. Expect a chill watch or watch something else but don't expect a good horror flick or great acting on a low budget.

First Off Who Stayed Awake To Watch This Monstrosity???...I Watched 10, Then The NOT Interesting Peaked It's Head And After 15, What The Crap Is This, Another Social Media Tragedy Trying To Be a Horror Movie, I See 8's And 7's...NO, No And NO!

So on a whim I decided to watch this. It came up on my feed and I was taking a break from editing footage, so I watched it.

Not bad!

It's the story of a YouTuber fashion model influencer that moves into a nice apartment that harbors a pretty messed up secret....

I love how bright, cheery, and high key it starts out. Very positive and nice and all that. But then the last act is, while not all that scary, VERY dark in terms of both story narrative and look.

Speaking of looks, this looks low budget AF. Like, much more low budget than your average FF horror flick. In fact, I kinda hate how it looks, but that's probably the high-quality anamorphic lens loving cinema snob in me LMAO

This ain't winning any awards, but it is a fun watch. The lead actor is absolutely GORGEOUS, and she does a great job in the role.

6/10.

This is a really bad, super-low budget "B" horror film, based around an up and coming fashion model. There are almost no scenes of her from head to toe, or modeling. Ashley is a truly stunning actress but headshots aren't enough. She does an extremely short scene on the beach in LA and does NO bikini shots!!! This film needes some actual photography to keep the audience interested. If you are going with a beautiful actress, playing a fashion model, doing photoshoots, and you fail to show the actress/model actually doing photoshoots and modeling, you have already lost the film! The movie is too bad, agonizing, without the actress carrying more of the film with full-body photoshoots and photography, showcasing her full potential and beauty.

The first bit of this movie is blog footage and is really uninteresting. Once we get to the apartment, the movie picks up and has some solid spooky moments and the lead actress has some chops. The plot arc is your standard fare, serviceable, but unspectacular.

Stay does rely heavily on jump scares, but they are handled better than many movies like this.

Overall, a decent, low budget, Paranormal Activity knock off.