Crystal Lake
tv
A prequel series set in the Friday the 13th universe centered on Pamela Voorhees.
A prequel series set in the Friday the 13th universe centered on Pamela Voorhees.
Although the Voorhees family is returning to the screen, don’t expect Crystal Lake to feature a machete-wielding bloodbath. The Friday the 13th prequel series’ showrunner Brad Caleb Kane explained that the Peacock show is not “quite a slasher” but more of a “psychological thriller” that follows Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini) before her son Jason’s death at the titular summer camp. “It’s a paranoid ’70s thriller. It has all of the DNA of a slasher without quite being a slasher,” he explained to Entertainment Weekly. “There are rivers of blood in the show.
Crystal Lake is an upcoming American horror television series developed as a prequel to the iconic Friday the 13th film franchise. Produced by A24 and set to stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S and Sky in the U.K and Ireland, it explores the origins of Jason Voorhees and his mother, Pamela Voorhees, in a doomed small town where camp counselors meet grisly fates.
