Coming to Peacock this Halloween season, the new prequel series “Crystal Lake” will tell the origin story of Pamela Voorhees and her young son Jason Voorhees, and Peacock has unleashed two brand new official posters this afternoon to whet your appetite for the upcoming 8-episode prequel to the original 1980 horror classic Friday the 13th. Check them out below.
Before Jason, there was Pamela…
Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees, with Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) playing young Jason Voorhees. These new posters give us our very first look at the show’s young Jason.
All episodes of “Crystal Lake” premiere October 15 on Peacock.
The series follows single mother Pam Voorhees who has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?
Brad Caleb Kane (“IT: Welcome to Derry”) is the showrunner for the series.
While Jason is featured in “Crystal Lake,” expect a deep dive into the Pamela Voorhees character rather than the traditional slasher mayhem we’ve come to expect from the saga.
Brad Caleb Kane previewed earlier this week, “I think the biggest conceptual issue was people know what to expect from a Friday the 13th, or at least they know what a Friday the 13th movie should be. Teens go out to a place, they are having sex and doing drugs, and then they are hunted by Mrs. Voorhees or Jason in the subsequent films. But, thankfully, we weren’t making a Friday the 13th movie. They are going to make another Friday the 13th movie, which I’m sure will be Friday the 13th to the max; but this was called Crystal Lake, and we were doing a story about the town and a prequel about Jason’s mom, and it was really fresh snow.”
“We could build it however we wanted,” the showrunner continued. “And feeling ownership for the franchise as a long‑time fan and a lover of it, truly die‑hard lover, I kind of knew what I wanted to see as a grown‑up Friday the 13th fan, as somebody who these movies opened doors for me and opened my eyes and I was thrilled watching them with thousand‑seaters full of people yelling at the screen. But I also grew up a little bit and became interested in other films and other themes in films, and I wanted to bring all of that cinema love to my love for Friday the 13th.”
