There’s hardly a shortage of horror-themed TV shows at the moment. If anything, there may be way too many of those, with some getting lost in the mix. One show that is not getting enough hype is the Canadian anthology series Slasher, partly due to its uneven release schedule and lukewarm reception of its first season.
Yet its third season, subtitled Solstice, just premiered on Netflix, following a pretty lengthy hiatus ( Guilty Party came out in October 2017). Was it worth the wait?
A big bloody yes.For the ones unfamiliar with the series, the premise is pretty simple: each season is a gory murder mystery that follows a new masked serial killer who stalks yet another core group of characters over the course of 8 episodes. It all concludes with a big reveal in the end with only a handful of bruised survivors.
In the first season, The Executioner was reducing the population of a small Canadian town while finding inspiration for his kills in the seven deadly sins. The second season took place during winter at the former summer camp, where ex-counselors and residents of a modern yoga retreat were target by a nickname-free psychopath.The horrors of Solstice unfold inside the neon-lit apartment complex exactly one year after one of the residents, a human equivalent of YOLO ‘philosophy’ named Kit (Robert Cormier), was brutally killed by a masked killer known as The Druid after a wild summer solstice-themed party; all while none of the neighbors answered his desperate pleas for help. As revealed over the course of flashbacks, Kit’s death had kick-started a whole chain reaction of tragic events that finally led to a full-blown murder spree on the anniversary of the original murder.Apartment complex settings allow Slasher to introduce, perhaps, the most diverse set of characters in the history of slashers.
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The lead, for example, is Muslim teenage girl Saadia, whose family fled a war zone only to run into a slasher territory.