Linda Cardellini Discusses More About The Gore And Playing The Killer In Crystal Lake

 In a recent conversation with Variety at the HBO Max Emmy Nominee Celebration in Hollywood, Linda Cardellini was asked various questions about her turn as the tragic and villainous Pamela Voorhees in the upcoming Friday The 13th series Crystal Lake.

Linda discussed the show’s tone, length, and practical effects. She even recounted a memorable past horror theater experience: 

I remember one of my most fun moviegoing experiences was I saw ‘Freddy vs. Jason’ on the Universal City Walk, which is a giant movie theater, at the height of its popularity, and people were screaming at the screen and throwing things.

On whether audiences might react similarly to the series: 

This is a longer format so there’s a lot more you get to do in eight episodes. It’s not necessarily like 90 minutes of pure horror. There’s a lot of story there. So maybe once in a while you’ll throw some things and scream.

What about the gore: 

It does get gory, yes, so much so that I wish sometimes they weren’t as practical as they were. There’s a couple of gory moments on set that were very practical that were pretty gross. Blood everywhere at one point.

On playing the killer rather than a victim: 

Everything that I’ve ever read that was handed to me that was in that space was for the person who was being chased, not the person who was chasing everyone. It was really fun this time to be on the other side of the knife.

There will be more marketing and interviews with the cast in the upcoming weeks as the countdown to the premier of the series continues when it debuts on October 15th!

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, Sky in the U.K and Ireland, and HBO Max across Europe, Middle East, and Africa, 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 in Crystal Lake.