Bugonia Post-Credits: Should You Stay After the Final Sting?

Yorgos Lanthimos has a new dark, funny, and very odd sci-fi thing out with Bugonia, and of course the big question leaving the theater is the Marvel-style one: should you stick around after the credits?

Does Bugonia have a post-credits scene?

Short answer: no. Once the credits start, there is no extra scene tucked in the middle or at the very end. If you want to beat the traffic, you can.

There is a little atmospheric flourish, though. After the score fades, the soundtrack keeps breathing with birds chirping and the occasional rumble of thunder. No images, no hidden footage, just a creepy audio coda that fits the movie’s mood.

What the movie is doing

Bugonia is Lanthimos in full deadpan mode: two guys kidnap a high-powered CEO because they are convinced she’s an alien and plan to use her as leverage. As the story spirals, the film peels back unsettling truths about who she really is. There’s a late reveal tied to Emma Stone’s character that has people waiting through the credits just in case the film has one last trick up its sleeve. It doesn’t. The ending itself does the lingering.

• Cast: Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkias, Vanessa Eng, Marc T. Lewis, Cedric Dumornay, Parvinder Shergill, with Emma Stone among the key players
• Produced by: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko
• From CJ ENM, the company behind Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Snowpiercer
• Adapted from Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 South Korean cult favorite Save the Green Planet!, a critical hit that picked up multiple major awards
• US release: October 31, 2025

So no tag, no mid-credits gag, nothing of the sort. But the movie’s last stretch is unnerving enough that those stray birds and thunder do the job of keeping the vibe in your head on the walk out.