Slasher: The Executioner episode review — 1.4 — As Water Is Corrupted Unless It Moves

Original air date: March 18, 2016
Director: Craig David Wallace
Writer: Aaron Martin

Rating: 6/10

We open with Trent, Verna’s nephew whose car was responsible for running Sarah and her grandmother off the road, getting chased through the woods when he’s out hunting, before falling into a pit. And the Executioner released a group of snakes on him to kill him.

I love snakes, and I love stupid and overly complicated animal-related deaths in movies (see the James Bond movies where someone feeds someone to a shark or whatever), so this was right up my alley. And believe it or not, it’s not the only animal-related death in this episode.

So the police are at a loss at this point, and now Sarah believes that Chief Vaughn (Dean McDermott) is incompetent, though she’s still comfortable with officer Cam Henry (Steve Byers).

There’s a nice scene where Sarah meets with Robin at a diner and they go over the suspects. They conclude that they’re basically the only two that they can cross off the list, as Sarah admits that her husband wasn’t with her when she had run into the Executioner.

And while Sarah doesn’t go so far as to suspect Dylan, we do learn that he’s got some hidden secrets when he goes to interview Tom Winston in prison and we learn that he’d sent him letters for years.

We get a lot of Cam’s wife, June (Jessica Sipos), in this episode, and she brings a lot of that classic slasher movie energy when she drunkenly goes skinnydipping outside a bar at night.

But she eventually accuses Sarah of being into Cam, and she may have also had something to do with a teenage girl that went missing a few years ago. Eventually she’s abducted, and left to die, naked and covered in honey for animals to come get her.

I love the Executioner’s methods in this episode, and I do really like the scene of Sarah and Robin. I even like the scene with June skinnydipping, because that’s quite fun.