Cameron ''Cam'' Henry, also known as The Executioner is the main antagonist in the first season of the horror anthology series Slasher.
He is the deputy (later Chief) of the small town of Waterbury, Canada. In secret, he is a greatly disturbed individual with dangerous religious beliefs. After Pastor Tom Winston murders the Ingram family in the town dressed as an executioner, Cam sought to use his disguise to transform in a serial killer vigilante with the intentions of cleansing the town from sinners.
He was portrayed by Steve Byers. Young Cam was portrayed by Tristan Culbert. In-costume scenes as The Executioner were portrayed by Steve Byers, Steve Gagne, and Vincent Rother.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Killed his own mother at a young age by pushing her down the stairs just because she was scolding him for being a sleepwalker and pissing his pants, sadistically smiling as his father Alan screams for help.
- While his mother was certainly harsh to him, and Alan Henry heavily insinuates she might have not loved him, it doesn't excuse this action, as it serves to show something was wrong with him even when he was a kid.
- Cam doesn't seem to show a bit of remorse for killing her even as an adult.
- While his mother was certainly harsh to him, and Alan Henry heavily insinuates she might have not loved him, it doesn't excuse this action, as it serves to show something was wrong with him even when he was a kid.
- Being raised as a religious zealot, Cam twisted his views of the Bible and saw himself as a punisher above sinners. He sought to find eight people whose sin made them commit horrid crimes and brutally murder them based on the capital punishments for the Seven Deadly Sins.
- Cam sets the horrid heinous standards of the series by committing unnecessarily prolonged painful deaths that go against the traditional fashion of slasher kills, which are mostly quirky, painful and unusual but quick.
- First, he beats almost to death a young teenager named Malcolm with a bat and abandons him in the woods, just because he was destroying the neighborhood's mail boxes.
- It is implied he didn't kill him because he didn't commit an actual sin, and just brutally beat him to teach him a lesson. Rather than being mitigating, this just shows how petty he is.
- Invades Verna McBride's home, ties her to her bed and then cuts off her limbs one by one while she is panicked and begging for help.
- Changes Justin Faysal's drugs with rat poison, making him internally bleed and giving him a really painful death.
- Injures Justin's husband Robin by giving him grievous cuts in his hands with kukri knives just to get him hospitalized. Did so to divert attention from Justin so he could get him.
- Kidnaps Brenda Merrit and chains her feet to cinder blocks. Throws said blocks to the water, drowning her.
- Leads Trent McBride into a pit where he would break one of his legs. Now defenseless, Cam starts throwing poisonous snakes into the pit to kill him while Trent screams to no avail.
- Kills his own wife, June Henry, by paralyzing her with a drug, stripping her naked, covering her in honey and letting her be eaten alive by animals and more vermin.
- While June died from an overdose instead of that, this is specially heinous as this modern scaphism wasn't the capital punishment for sloth (reason why she and Trent were killed) but rather he invented this on the run just to give her the most horrid death possible.
- Cam didn't know June's sin before killing Trent, so while he might have cared for her at some point, he quickly overcame it.
- While June died from an overdose instead of that, this is specially heinous as this modern scaphism wasn't the capital punishment for sloth (reason why she and Trent were killed) but rather he invented this on the run just to give her the most horrid death possible.
- Beheaded Alison Sutherland and boiled her head in a deep frier from a local fast-food restaurant. Some of Alison's parts were unknowingly consumed by the costumers.
- Cremated his boss Chief Iain Vaughn alive.
- Despite claiming to love Sarah, this didn't stop him from harming her just to use her as bait so Tom Winston (who is Sarah's biological father) would willingly kill himself with a table saw.
- Killed his own father by strangling him when he found out he was The Executioner.
- First, he beats almost to death a young teenager named Malcolm with a bat and abandons him in the woods, just because he was destroying the neighborhood's mail boxes.
- Cam sets the horrid heinous standards of the series by committing unnecessarily prolonged painful deaths that go against the traditional fashion of slasher kills, which are mostly quirky, painful and unusual but quick.
- Frames Sarah's husband Dylan for his own killings just so he can win her heart.
- When his plans are unraveling, he severely injures Robin by stabbing him in the chest and then harms and tries to kill Sarah.
- While his victims are far from innocent (with some of them having done very heinous things, like Vaughn), this doesn't excuse him as he was killing them just to satisfy his own ego while he lies to himself that he is cleansing the world from sinners.
- Some can say he actually loved Sarah. However, he got to the extreme just to get her attention (by framing her husband), hurted her loved ones and then tried to murder her when she unraveled his plans. The dialogue were he confesses his love to her proves that he was just obsessed with her purity and innocence more than anything.
- While he can be misinterpreted as a well-intentioned vigilante who actually believes is doing the right thing, it runs moot as the show itself portrays him as a hypocrite who likes to play God, killing people for being sinners while he isn't any better himself.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Despite being the first killer of the show, he slightly fails the in-story Heinous Standards with the later killers who had more graphic kills. However, this is a minor prevention as his kills are still cruel and torturous in extreme, as well as having one of the highest individual body counts in the series, placing him above other villains like The Gentleman and The Widow (with 9 kills), Andy (with 7 kills), The Rijkers' twins (with 5 and 6 kills respectively), Wyatt and Tom (with 2 kills each), being at the same level with The Camp Motega Killer (with 10 kills). Despite Floyd surpassing him with 11 kills, Cam's crimes are more heinous compared to Floyd's. In addition, June's death also comes off as one of the cruelest and nastiest kills in the show, aside with Kaili Greenberg's death in Season 3/Solstice.
- While his relationship with his father certainly wasn't the best, Cam didn't want to kill him and cried while doing so, asking for God's forgiveness and claiming that ''no one else needed to die''.