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Tom Savini’s Severed Head Was Featured on “The Orville”
If you’re a fan of the show, you’ll be happy to know it was renewed today!
Personally, I haven’t yet checked out Seth MacFarlane’s new series “The Orville,“ which has been airing on FOX since early September. The show, inspired by “Star Trek,” centers on the crew of the Orville as they embark on various diplomatic and exploratory missions, and Episode 8 airs tonight, November 2.
But we’re here to talk about Episode 6, which was titled “Krill” and premiered on October 12. Why, you ask? Because horror legend Tom Savini made a cameo appearance!
Well, his head did.
As Savini himself revealed on Instagram, the severed head featured in the episode was a replica of Savini’s, only without his iconic facial hair. Savini’s friend Howard Berger, of the famous KNB EFK Group, is on the show’s special makeup effects team, and it was Berger who included the severed head as a little Easter egg for horror fans.
Tom Savini has of course decapitated countless people over the years, but this isn’t the first time he’s lost his own. Savini’s head was also cut off in Lost Boys: The Tribe!
Pamela Voorhees gets the spotlight in Friday the 13th prequel series “Crystal Lake,” and EW has unveiled first look images and a teaser that introduce the slasher legend’s origins.
“Crystal Lake” premieres Thursday, October 15 only on Peacock!
The series “begins with the circumstances around that drowning and follows from there Pam’s descent into madness.”
Brad Caleb Kane (“IT: Welcome to Derry”) is the showrunner for the series, and describes the series to EW as “a mixtape of genre.”
“Everybody in this world is living in a different genre in their mind,” Kane says, “until they collide with the genre that Pam is in.” Kane clarifies Crystal Lake is “100 percent” still a slasher. What’s more, the series is set in the ’70s.
Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees, a mother who gave up a singing career to raise her special needs child, only to take a dark turn when she loses her son — Jason.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
The show’s cast also includes William Catlett (Abigail), Cameron Scoggins (“Nashville”), Devin Kessler (“Godfather of Harlem”), Gwendolyn Sundstrom, Nick Cordileone (“Warrior”), Joy Suprano (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”), Danielle Kotch (Sinister), Christopher Denham (“Shining Girls”), Nancy Nagrant (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), and Phoenix Parnevik.
The eight-episode series is set to be directed by Michael Lennox (“Derry Girls”), Celine Held & Logan George (Caddo Lake), and Quyen Tran (“The Pitt”).
From A24 and streamer Peacock, “Crystal Lake” will notably be the first official Friday the 13th project since the Platinum Dunes remake of the original classic way back in 2009.
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