{"id":323180,"date":"2025-12-03T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323180\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:21:11","slug":"decide-who-survives-in-interactive-slasher-slay-day-in-theaters-fall-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323180\/","title":{"rendered":"Decide Who Survives in Interactive Slasher &#8216;Slay Day,&#8217; In Theaters Fall 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interactive slasher movie Slay Day is coming to theaters next fall from\u00a0Kino Industries\u2019 CtrlMovie, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/slay-day-interactive-slasher-movie-fall-2026-release-1236598489\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The film will ask audiences to \u201ccollectively vote on each critical decision using their smartphones, seamlessly altering the story as it plays.\u201d As a result, no two screenings will be the same.<\/p>\n<p>Set on Friday the 13th, 1987, in the picture-perfect town of Belle Falls, the story follows six teens preparing for their biggest night of the year: the Sadie Hawkins dance. But when the town exhumes the body of the real Sadie Hawkins to unravel the truth behind her killing spree 50 years earlier, a malevolent force returns to the town.<\/p>\n<p>With over 20 unique endings, Slay Day transforms the slasher formula into a ruthless social experience: can you survive a horror movie when you\u2019re the one pulling the strings?<\/p>\n<p>Jayden Bartels (\u201cGoosebumps\u201d), Shelby Simmons (\u201cBunk\u2019d\u201d), Emma McNulty, Caleb Brown (Mother\u2019s Day 2016), Luke Mullen (V\/H\/S\/99), Corrado Martini, and Lyndon Smith (\u201cNational Treasure: Edge of History\u201d) star.<\/p>\n<p>John David Buxton makes his directional debut from as script by Andrew Matisziw (\u201cGoliath\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Mark Dragin (\u201cLaw &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit\u201d), Michael Kagan (The Apology), and Scott C. Silver (The Pyramid) produce. Eric Schneider, Angela Kay, and Chaz Barsamian are executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHorror has always been about participation \u2014 yelling at the screen, covering your eyes, daring the killer to come closer,\u201d Buxton said. \u201cSlay Day turns that instinct into action. For the first time, the audience truly decides who lives, who dies, and who deserves to, in a democratic and instantaneous experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve spent years developing CtrlMovie to blur the line between story and player, but Slay Day is the first time audiences will experience that power on a theatrical scale,\u201d added Silver. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a movie, it\u2019s a new theatrical experience where every decision ripples through the story in real time. The technology lets people experience horror in the most personal way imaginable, because this time the deaths are the direct result of the audience\u2019s choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following its theatrical run, Slay Day will be released across traditional and interactive platforms, including major gaming services such as Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interactive slasher movie Slay Day is coming to theaters next fall from\u00a0Kino Industries\u2019 CtrlMovie, Variety has learned. 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