{"id":343770,"date":"2025-12-12T05:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343770\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:34:11","slug":"crystal-lake-ep-explains-prequel-is-not-quite-a-slasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343770\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Crystal Lake’ EP Explains Prequel Is Not “Quite A Slasher”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough the Voorhees family is returning to the screen, don\u2019t expect Crystal Lake<\/a> to feature a machete-wielding bloodbath.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Friday the 13th<\/a> prequel series\u2019 showrunner Brad Caleb Kane<\/a> explained that the Peacock<\/a> show is not \u201cquite a slasher\u201d but more of a \u201cpsychological thriller\u201d that follows Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini<\/a>) before her son Jason\u2019s death at the titular summer camp.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a paranoid \u201970s thriller. It has all of the DNA of a slasher without quite being a slasher,\u201d he explained to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cThere are rivers of blood in the show. There are very, I think, ingenious kill sequences and deaths and murders, but it\u2019s all done in service of character and theme and place and time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the original Friday the 13th was released in 1980, Kane is not only exploring genres central to the \u201970s, but also the social themes of the era.<\/p>\n

\n\tKane added, \u201cI tried to think about Crystal Lake and a Friday the 13th prequel as, \u2018What era did the first movie come out of?\u2019 It came out of the paranoid \u201970s thriller era. It came out of the mistrust-of-institutions era. It came out of the women\u2019s lib era, the National Organization for Women era, this consciousness-raising awakening era in America. I wanted to go and play with all of those themes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith 12 movies in the franchise, spanning to 2009, the first Friday the 13th revealed Pamela as the killer picking off camp counselors after her son Jason drowned at the same camp when his own counselors were neglecting him. The rest of the films (with the exception of 1985\u2019s Friday the 13th: A New Beginning) have Jason return from his watery grave to don his signature hockey mask and start swinging his machete.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn March, Cardellini was cast in Crystal Lake<\/a>, following original showrunner Bryan Fuller<\/a>\u2018s exit from the series<\/a> last year. Kane took over the series<\/a> in August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the Voorhees family is returning to the screen, don\u2019t expect Crystal Lake to feature a machete-wielding bloodbath.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[53909,10819,88,3186,206,220],"class_list":{"0":"post-343770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brad-caleb-kane","9":"tag-crystal-lake","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-friday-the-13th","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-peacock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}