History Series / Slasher

* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:It turns out that Sarah's real father is Tom Winston, the man responsible for killing her parents, since he had an affair with her mother Rachel.]]

* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:The new Executioner turns out to be Sarah's childfriend Cam, who's also the deputy sheriff in the town.]]

* XMeetsY: The SlasherMovie genre meets ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' meets ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' sprinkled with a little Literature/NancyDrew.

* {{Irony}}: The Executioner bases his victims and his killing of them on their past sins in an ironic fashion.

** Gluttony: [[ForceFeeding Force-fed rats]], snakes and toads. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Justin Faysal]] - [[spoiler:secretly fed rat poison.]] Reason: [[spoiler:He forced a family off their land so he could buy it and build a luxury house there. The family later suffocated on propane.]]

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Sarah's husband Dylan survives all the episodes and [[spoiler:helps Sarah finally defeat the killer]].
* BuryYourGays: Justin and Robin are Waterbury's power couple. [[spoiler:Justin is killed by being force-fed rat poison as punishment for greed and, despite being attacked by the killer no less than '''three times''', Robin survives]].

* EnfantTerrible: Turns out [[spoiler: Cam]] was one of these. [[spoiler:He killed his mother at a young age by pushing her down the stairs.]]
** In the final scene of the series, Robin is showing the house to potential new buyers. [[spoiler:Their angelic looking daughter snaps a cats neck before coming back into the house and saying she thinks it's perfect.]] Maybe the house is cursed after all...

** [[spoiler:Cam supposedly goes to try and save the victims, when he's secretly the one killing them]].

** Wrath: [[AnArmAndALeg Dismemberment]]. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Verna [=McBride=]]] - [[spoiler:tied to her bed, hands and feet cut off]]. Reason: [[spoiler:She killed her husband on finding out he had slept with Rachel Ingram]].

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: For the first part of the season finale, [[spoiler: Cam and Sarah become this despite Sarah still going out with Dylan. Then again Dylan just arrested for being the Executioner. Then again, Dylan's not the killer]].

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Sarah does this with Cam in the season finale, but given the circumstances that Cam imposed, it's more of an EnforcedTrope]].

** Pride: Broken on the wheel. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Tom Winston]] - [[spoiler:offered himself to fall on a saw blade instead of Sarah.]] Reason: [[killed Sarah's parents because they tricked him, a priest, into being video-taped having sex with Rachel. They used the tape to blackmail him into allowing their pornography operation to continue.]]

Slasher is a Canadian television horror anthology series starring Katie [=McGrath=]. Produced in association with the Canadian network Super Channel, Slasher is the first original series by U.S. TV channel Chiller, which premiered the series on Friday, March 4, 2016, at 9:00 pm EST. Super Channel aired the show's Canadian premiere on April 1, 2016.

The series' first season, which centered on a mysterious figure billed as "The Executioner" terrorizing the fictional town of Waterbury, Canada, was filmed between July and October 2015 in Sudbury, Parry Sound, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[AvertedTrope AVERTED]]. Sarah's boyfriend Dylan survives all the episodes and [[spoiler: helps Sarah finally defeat the killer]].
* BuryYourGays: Justin and Robin are Waterbury's power couple. [[spoiler: Justin is killed by being force fed rat poisoning as punishment for greed, and despite being attacked by the killer no less than '''three times''', Robin survives the series]].
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: The original executer, Tom Winston is the one who murdered Sarah's parents in 1988 and who advises Sarah on the new Executioner's murders in the present day.
* FinalGirl: While Sarah is this, the creators made her to be more than the stereotypical final virgin survior and be more ''Nancy Drew'' like.

* {{Irony}}: The Executioner bases his victims bases on killing them based on their past sins in an ironic fashion.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Katie [=McGrath=]'s natural Irish accent slips out fairly regularly.

** [[spoiler: Cam supposedly goes to try and save the victims, when he's secretly the one killing them]].
** [[spoiler: Vaughn is one of the seven sinners, and when his ADayInTheLimelight and ADeathInTheLimelight appeared, this time hes actively becomes a villain, attempting to kill and hinder several characters including a heroin addict with the revelation of his raping of Ariel.]]
* PluckyComicRelief: Robin is this in the show, despite his husband's death.
* SevenDeadlySins: Each 7 [[spoiler: now 8]] of the Executioner's victims are targeted because their past actions were representative of one of the seven sins, and they are killed in the applicable manner laid out by [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]]:
** Wrath: [[AnArmAndALeg Dismemberment]]. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Verna [=McBride=]]] - [[spoiler:tied to her bed, hands and feet cut off.]] Reason: [[spoiler:killed her husband on finding out he had slept with Rachel Ingram.]]
** Gluttony: [[ForceFeeding Force fed rats]], snakes and toads. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Justin Faysal]] - [[spoiler:secretly fed rat poison.]] Reason: [[spoiler:forced a family off their land so he could buy it and build a luxury house there. The family later suffocated on propane.]]
** Envy: Drowned in ice-cold water. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Brenda Merritt]] - [[spoiler:[[CementShoes tied to breeze blocks]] and dropped into the lake to drown.]] Reason: [[spoiler:attempting to hurt or kill the girlfriend of her lover back in the 60s, and accidentally putting her best friend in a coma.]]

** Lust: Covered in fire and brimstone. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Ian Vaughn]] - [[spoiler:[[MurderByCremation burned alive in a crematorium.]]]] Reason: [[spoiler:raped and kidnapped Ariel Peterson and held her captive for five years, even fathering a son by her.]]
* SlasherMovie: It's in the title. One of the few TV series based on the genre, and one of very few examples that don't focus on teenagers.
* TheGameNeverStopped: In episode 7, even after all of the 7 sinners have died, there's still one episode left, and Sarah is confident that the Executioner isn't done even though he or she left the costume out in the open at the end of the episode. She's right.

* XMeetsY: SlasherMovie genre meets Film/{{Se7en}} meets Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs. Sprinkled with a little Literature/NancyDrew.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Sarah does this with Cam in the season finale, but given the cirumstances that Cam imposed, its more of an EnforcedTrope]].
** [[spoiler: As part of the sin for Sloth, Trent and June engaged in this since she's Cam's wife. The Executioner killing her would've probably been DisproportionateRetribution following the reveal, though he was saddened by her death.]]

** Wrath: [[AnArmAndALeg Dismemberment]]. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Verna McBride]] - [[spoiler:tied to her bed, hands and feet cut off.]] Reason: [[spoiler:killed her husband on finding out he had slept with Rachel Ingram.]]

** Sloth: Thrown into a [[SnakePit pit of snakes]]. Victim and death: [[spoiler:Trent McBride]] - [[spoiler:chased into a pit, left there with snakes, including the Eastern Brown Snake, second most venomous snake on Earth.]] Reason: [[spoiler:left Ariel Peterson wandering the streets drunk on the night she disappeared, because he was clocking off and didn't want the extra work.]]

* SevenDeadlySins: Each 7 [[spoiler: now 8]] of the Executioner's victims are targetted because their past actions were representative of one of the seven sins; wrath, gluttony, envy, sloth, greed, lust, and wrath.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Katie McGrath's natural Irish accent slips out fairly regularly.

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