A24 releases first trailer for Jeremy Saulnier's Slayground, out January 2027
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The gist
A24 released the first full trailer for Jeremy Saulnier's Slayground on Tuesday.
It is the Rebel Ridge director's return, in theaters January 29, 2027.
Background
Jeremy Saulnier is the writer/director behind Green Room and the Netflix thriller Rebel Ridge, which starred Aaron Pierre and Don Johnson and won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie. Slayground, previously titled October, is his new A24 release and stars Cory Michael Smith, known for playing The Riddler in Gotham, as a man caught up in a haunted-attraction murder case. The trailer arrives after a teaser and a poster that set the release date.
How it unfolded
- 2026 -09A first teaser surfaced, built around a fictional haunted attraction's surveillance feeds.
- Oct 19, 2026A24's teaser poster revealed a January 29, 2027 release date and announced the full trailer for the next day.
- Oct 20, 2026A24 released the first full trailer for Slayground.
Who’s saying what
- Official
- A24's synopsis says scare-actor "Metal Mike" Graves wakes surrounded by his co-workers' bodies with no memory, and races to uncover the truth as a state-wide manhunt closes in.
- Analysts
- ScreenAnarchy described the film as The Fugitive meets a grimy slasher.
Still unverified
SlashFilm said whether Slayground is actually related to Saulnier's Murder Party or is just a spiritual kinship is "still anybody's guess"; it also said the film was "originally rumored to release this month." The Wrap noted a teaser attached to Zach Cregger's Resident Evil promised the movie would arrive "this fall."