Metal Mike’s search for an explanation unfolds while a manhunt closes in.
The haunted attraction in Slayground is Metal Mike Graves’s workplace. He wakes there among the bodies of his co-workers, unable to remember how they died or how he arrived in that situation. A24’s official synopsis and credits.
That gap gives him two problems at once. He needs to reconstruct what happened, and he must do so while a statewide manhunt is underway. A24’s synopsis leaves open the possibility that the evidence will point back toward him. A24’s official synopsis and credits.
The premise places a professional performer of fear inside an actual crime scene. His work normally depends on staged danger; the deaths make the attraction a place he has to investigate. His missing memory prevents him from starting with a reliable account of his own actions. A24’s official synopsis and credits.
Jeremy Saulnier wrote and directed the film. A24’s cast includes Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, Stanley Simons, James Badge Dale, Stephen Root, Chris Sullivan, Young Mazino, Imogen Poots, Matty Matheson, and Macon Blair. The investigation begins with Mike’s uncertainty, without establishing his guilt. A24’s official synopsis and credits.