The New Crystal Lake Trailer Debuts With New Series Details!

 In one early scene [In Crystal Lake], a horrified Pam stares into her bathroom mirror, covered head to toe in blood. The only part of her person not stained are the white circles around her eyes.

As a massive fan of the original 1980 film Friday The 13th, I am extremely excited for A24 and Peacock's new Friday The 13th series Crystal Lake. It has been a long journey even since the series was first announced in October of 2022. Creative changes and a writer's strike created numerous setbacks, but here we are, preparing for the new series to debut on October 15th. 

Entertainment Weekly today got some interesting scoops on the series, including more information on the plot as well as showing off the brand-new trailer (watch below).

From EW:

Crystal Lake begins with the circumstances around that drowning and follows from there Pam’s descent into madness. Callum Vinson, dressed in pronounced makeup and prosthetics, plays a young Jason Voorhees with an enlarged head from hydrocephalus.

If you follow the timeline of the franchise, Crystal Lake should take place in the ‘50s. Kane, however, took more artistic liberties to set the show in the ‘70s. “I wanted to touch on all the pop-culture artifacts that were tangential to the America from which these movies were born,” he says.

The ABC Afterschool Special, the era of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, the debut of The Feminine Mystique — “even the martial arts genre, which, if you grew up during that time, was basically a whole personality,” Kane notes — were all touchstones. Crystal Lake is also (pun intended) camp at times. The showrunner thinks of the series as “a mixtape of genre.”

“The tone is odd,” Cardellini responds. “It is many things at once, but it works as this fun ride. There’s some scene set in an outdoor carnival, and I feel like it’s almost that feel.”

The townspeople, many of whom fans will recognize, bring different colors to the show’s palette. Danielle Kotch and Phoenix Parnevik appear as Claudette and Barry, the two sexually active camp counselors who were the first to go under Pam’s blade in the original film. They are now “full-on characters in the TV series,” according to Kane.

Officer Dorf is another figure from Friday the 13th who arrives at the camp in search of “Crazy Ralph,” a local who’d often drink and ramble on about the town curse. Dorf is now played by Cameron Scoggins, and Ralph is played by Nick Cordileone.

More About Crystal Lake

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. The series blends slasher elements with deeper character backstories, including various iterations of Jason familiar to franchise fans, and is described as an "expanded prequel" set primarily in 1970-1971 at Camp Crystal Lake.