{"id":655045,"date":"2026-10-15T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/655045\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:50:11","slug":"crystal-lake-pays-tribute-to-snake-killed-on-friday-the-13th-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/655045\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Crystal Lake’ Pays Tribute To Snake Killed On ‘Friday the 13th’ Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMore than 45 years after the first Friday the 13th<\/a>, Brad Caleb Kane is righting a wrong from the set of the 1980 slasher.<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of Friday\u2019s Crystal Lake<\/a> premiere on Peacock<\/a>, the series creator noted that a snake Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini) sets free after finding it in the camp pantry in the first episode is \u201ca direct nod\u201d to a trained serpent that was actually killed while filming the original movie.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut [Pam\u2019s] a different person in the first episode than the kids are [in the movie],\u201d he explained. \u201cYes, it\u2019s a direct nod, but then it goes to the place of the first movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKane clarified: \u201cBut we don\u2019t actually kill a snake in ours. No, no animals were harmed in the making of Crystal Lake. Some hippies might have been harmed in the making of Crystal Lake, but no animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the filming of the original 1980 slasher Friday the 13th, a domesticated bull snake was infamously killed in real life while shooting the scene in which \u201cfinal girl\u201d Alice (Adrienne King) finds the reptile slithering around her cabin and calls for her fellow counselors to come help.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 2026-27 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Streaming & Cable<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn the scene, Bill (Harry Crosby) runs in with a machete and kills the snake, before it\u2019s shown writhing and dying on the floor. Cast and crew have since revealed that the sequence was real<\/a>, noting that the snake\u2019s handler was unaware of the film\u2019s intentions and was \u201cinconsolable\u201d afterward.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith PETA launching two months before Friday the 13th\u2018s premiere in 1980, there were no animal protection laws in place yet during the filming of the Sean S. Cunningham-helmed movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tStreaming Friday on Peacock, Crystal Lake stars Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees, who struggles to grieve after her son Jason drowned the summer before. As two strangers begin digging into her mysterious past, Pam goes to murderous lengths to keep her secrets buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 45 years after the first Friday the 13th, Brad Caleb Kane is righting a wrong from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48050,93,38636,61,60,270,8048],"class_list":["post-655045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-crystal-lake","tag-entertainment","tag-friday-the-13th","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-peacock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}