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| “ | You having a good time? | „ |
| ~ Slater's most famous quote. |
| “ | There is no forgiveness; there’s just forgetting. | „ |
| ~ King's twisted philosophy. |
Slater King is the main antagonist of the 2024 psychological thriller film Blink Twice.
He was portrayed by Channing Tatum, who also played Jody Domergue in The Hateful Eight.
Personality[]
When Slater King is first introduced, he's portrayed as a humble person, despite his immense wealth. He's sociable, charming and slightly playful, which is why so many people are drawn to him. He even appears like a hopeless romantic, as he tries to woo Frida when they first meet, inviting her and Jess to his private island. When conversing with Frida, he seems like a pretty down-to-earth guy which is what attracts her to him in the beginning.
However, after Jess disappears, Slater's true colors are disturbingly brought to light. In truth, Slater is a narcissistic sociopath that uses his friendly outward appearance to draw in women so that he and his wealthy friends can rape them without any consequence. He uses his intelligence to craft a drug from the local flora of his private island to construct a drug that erases all of his victims memories after the horrifying ordeal. He not only does this with his inner circle, but he also invites other elites to partake, even his own therapist! A highlight of his depraved nature is that he never drops his affable facade, even as his friends die and Frida gains the upper hand on him. Slater also believes that there is no such thing of forgiveness, which attributes to his lack of remorse of his abuse.
Despite his sick personality however, there are hints of a tragic side to his character. According to him, he and his sister were repeatedly molested by their parents, which may have attributed to his dark character. While his sister uses the drug to numb the pain, Slater seemingly struggles with the truth of what happened to him, which leads to his philosophy that forgetting is more important than forgiveness. He seemed to bizarrely hold a sincere belief that his methods of memory manipulation was a kindness, since he concluded that the abuse was going to happen regardless, yet with the drugged amnesia, the victims would be spared from the trauma. Despite this aspect, it doesn't detract from his reprehensible behavior, where his trauma made him an even worst abuser then his parents were.
His first public scandal made him offer an apology, however, since he wasn't forgiven by most people, he felt resentful and it reinforced his belief in making victims forget, instead of actually reforming because he felt that if he would never be forgiven, then he may as well continue abusing. Curiously, he does display a moral compass of sorts, as one of his friends, Lucas, refused to participate in the rapes, however, neither did he try to help the girls, thus Slater judges him as being worse due to inaction. When Lucas showed a hint of wanting to actively help the girls, Slater taunted him, and upon Lucas being mistakenly shot, Slater felt no pity or even bother for the death.
Eventually, Slater receives his comeuppance in a poetic fashion. After Frida slips some of his drugs in his vape, Slater loses some of his memories, which was only worsened by the head injury he received in the finale. By the film's end, Slater has become a shell of his former shelf, with Frida influencing his actions by keeping him complacent. Now Slater is left confused and compliant, the same way he treated Frida and all of the other woman he swindled into coming to his island, although even less, as he had a fragile child-like demeanour and uncertainty about what actions or interactions that he would be allowed to take.
Biography[]
Past[]
Before the events of the film, Slater and his sister Stacy were molested by their parents which severely traumatized them. However, that abuse gave Slater the twisted philosophy that denial and forgetting was a lot better then forgiveness, because forgiveness doesn't exist. This led to him purchasing a private island with his inherited wealth and harvesting the local plants to produce a memory-erasing serum. However, he then decided to use this to mind wipe innocent women so that they forget that he and his friends sexually assaulted them on a daily basis. He even extended invitations to his inner friends to partake in the depravity with reassurance that the women will not remember anything that happened. Eventually, Frida is invited to the island where she attempts to escape after experiencing the assault and remembering. However, Slater eventually catches her as she hits her head, leaving a scar. Brainwashing Frida into a state of depression and denial, Slater releases her but secretly obsesses over her. Eventually, Slater was forced to step down from King Industries as some past behavior is brought to life. He fakes remorse by constantly apologizing and doing live interviews, with the public largely unaware of his true colours.
Blink Twice[]
By pure coincidence, Frida and her best friend Jess happen to be catering at an event run by Slater. Recognizing her from their first encounter, Slater invites her and Jess to his island for a weekend. Along with his friends Vic, Cody, Tom and Lucas, who invited Sarah, Camilla and Heather, Slater shows them around the island where Frida is constantly called "Red Rabbit" by one of the staff. The elites treat their guests to some high-quality dining, luxurious rooms and lots of hallucinogenic drugs to keep them occupied. As the guests enjoy their time together, Frida and Sarah clash for Slater's affections as Slater spends more time with Frida. Unbeknownst to the female guests, the men repeatedly assault them late at night and use the mind-erasing perfume to erase their memories of the night before. Jess tells Frida that she wants to leave, but Frida denies her claims. While the women are unaware of the constant abuse, Jess begins to suspect that something is wrong as she is bitten by a snake. That night, the woman are tied up and Slater kills Jess before she can fully understand what's happening and the other victims are left brainwashed and oblivious.
The next day, Frida enters a room that is filled with red gift bags that are filled with the perfume used to erase minds. Whilst there, she is tricked into drinking snake venom by the maid calling her "Red Rabbit." She soon starts to experience flashes of memory of the last few nights, including Jess's murder and a hidden knife behind her mirror. Eventually, she realizes that Jess is missing and starts to investigate, realizing that her room has been cleared out. She enlists the help of Sarah, who has also experienced the memory flashes and has started to suspect that something's amiss. After giving her the snake venom, she decides to give it to Camilla and Heather as well, hoping to remind them of what's happening. As Frida decides to sneak into Slater's office to find their phone's she finds plenty of photographs of other elites and women who were also on the island.
Eventually, Frida and Sarah wait for Heather and Camilla's memories to return, so they join the men for a tense dinner. During the dinner, her full memory returns of the men assaulting Sarah, Camilla, Heather, Jess and herself along with Slater's therapist who is in on the deception. Eventually, after the men decide to dance, Camilla and Heather's memories return with Camilla stabbing Tom to death and Heather beating Vic with a chessboard. Unfortunately, Heather is killed by Stan, Slater's bodyguard. Meanwhile, the remaining men take refuge in Slater's villa, with Vic bleeding out. Having captured Camilla, Slater proceeds to step on her throat to suffocate. She dies, as Frida and Sarah make a run for it. While hiding in her room, Frida slips and recognizes a photo she had the last time she was here. However, Stacy attacks her as she has been dosing herself to stay ignorant, only for Frida to kill her. Remembering that she had been to this island before, Frida attempts to flee only to be stopped by Stan. But, Sarah appears behind him and bashes his head with a rock. Both women decide to confront their abusers, with Sarah off to confront Cody and Frida off to confront Slater.
Meanwhile, Slater tells Lucas that he did nothing to help those girls, telling her that there's a special place in Hell for him. As Sarah knocks on the door, Slater warns Lucas to not make a run for it, only for Lucas to get a shot in the head.
Trivia[]
- He may be loosely based on Jeffrey Epstein.