After landing a role on an episode of the television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Slater joined the Screen Actors Guild and moved to Los Angeles.
[2] Slater's most well-known acting credit came as she played the ill-fated Leslie Todd in the 1986 horror movie Chopping Mall, directed by Jim Wynorski and co-produced by Roger and Julie Corman.
[4][5][6] In a 1993 interview with the magazine Femme Fatales, Slater admitted a certain amount of regret for doing the movie, claiming it "falsely linked [her] to a damned 'scream queen' title.
[7] After Chopping Mall, she continued to gain minor bit parts in movies and some short-lived television shows through the end of the decade,[1] as well as modeling work for the likes of glamour photographer Peter Gowland.
[9] Her last major role in the movie industry was Heather Black in the 1994 erotic thriller Mind Twister, directed by Fred Olen Ray, in which Slater received top-billing.