I have no plans to watch this movie, but I admit to being morbidly curious:
Styx, in the above video, does make a good point about how the trope of the "magical Negro" (term popularized in 2001 by Spike Lee as he did a campus tour) is a go-to plot device for Stephen King in so many of his novels: Mother Abigail in The Stand, Dick Halloran in The Shining, John Coffey in The Green Mile, etc. A cheerful-yet-serious YouTube discussion of the magical-Negro trope in the works of Stephen King is here.
ADDENDUM: an absolutely hilarious Key & Peele sketch satirizing the concept is here.
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