Originally released in September 2018, Slice is a horror-comedy starring Chance the Rapper in his first feature-length acting role alongside Atlanta and Joker: Folie à Deux star Zazie Beetz, as well as Stranger Things alumni Joe Keery, Rae Gray of Fear the Walking Dead fame, and Paul Scheer, best known as Andre from FX series The League. American filmmaker Austin Vesely had previously directed several Chance music videos, including "Sunday Candy" and "Angels," before taking on Slice as his feature-directing debut. Set in the fictional town of Kingfisher, the movie follows the fallout from a string of murders targeting pizza delivery drivers as its characters try to determine what is happening.
A few weeks after turning eight, Slice made its way to the Netflix U.S. library on Sunday, September 27. The arrival also doubles as its stateside debut on the world's largest streaming service. Slice is the first A24 catalog addition since the Daniel Radcliffe-starring surrealist dramedy Swiss Army Man, which returned to Netflix on August 19, more than half a decade after ending its original streaming stint.
Slice's story starts with a supernatural murder mystery that quickly expands into something much stranger. Kingfisher is home to roughly 40,000 ghosts, many of whom live in a segregated district called Ghost Town, while Chance the Rapper plays an elusive werewolf named Dax Lycander and the local pizza restaurant sits above a gateway to hell. Even among ghost horror movies, that combination makes Slice's supernatural setup quite crowded. Seemingly acknowledging as much, Netflix categorized the movie under the "Campy" and "Offbeat" tags in its catalog.
The horror comedy's distinctive premise did not originate from a conventional genre blueprint. In a 2018 interview with the Chicago Magazine, Vesley said the project began as a goofy short about murdered pizza delivery workers before he kept adding supernatural elements, eventually ending up with what he deems a "monster movie hybrid." The filmmaker also cited George Saunders' 1996 book CivilWarLand in Bad Decline as an influence on the idea of ghosts existing as an ordinary part of daily life. That eclectic list of influences helped shape one of the quirkiest horror films of the 2010s, with Slice consistently moving between ghosts, werewolves, civic politics, and unapologetically absurdist comedy without treating any one of those elements as more important than the rest.
Netflix is not in the habit of announcing the exact length of licensing stints agreed for new catalog arrivals in advance. Be that as it may, A24's recent licensing patterns provide some hints as to how long Slice may remain available on the streaming service. Comparable catalog additions from the arthouse distributor have often remained on Netflix U.S. for about three to six months, with The Witch and Hereditary landing near the shorter end of that range and X and Pearl lasting longer. Slice could thus realistically leave Netflix sometime between Christmas 2026 and late March 2027.
Despite being eight years old, Slice was never before available on Netflix U.S. A24 originally gave it a one-night theatrical event on September 10, 2018, with screenings in Chicago and 20 additional cities, before releasing it digitally the day after.
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