BLAIRSTOWN, N.J. – Spooky season is officially underway, and a new slasher television show with ties to our area premiered this week.<\/p>\n
Dozens of horror fans from all over the world spent Thursday night at the Blairstown Diner for a special watch party.<\/p>\n
The Blairstown Diner was in the original ‘Friday the 13th’ movie. On Thursday, it became the backdrop for the ‘Crystal Lake’ watch party. The new TV series is a prequel to the 1980 film.<\/p>\n
Aspen Antel and her dad drove three hours from Harrisburg to see the new series ‘Crystal Lake’ in the town where it all began.<\/p>\n
“It’s really nice, it’s like a nice small town. It’s kind of beautiful out here,” Antel told us.<\/p>\n
Brian Emenheiser serves as the Blairstown Diner’s event coordinator and frequently dresses up as Jason Voorhees\u2014earning the title South Jersey Jason.<\/p>\n
75 ticketed fans lined up outside the Blairstown Diner to watch the Peacock series in its entirety, within walking distance from where it was shot.<\/p>\n
“To walk on an actual Hollywood production, it was amazing. It came on at 9:00 this morning. I went dark on social media because I don’t want to have any spoilers,” Emenheiser stated.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the watch party sold out in 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Nearby business owner Dori Sileo loves the horror hype and talking to fans of the film.<\/p>\n
“It’s just really cool to talk to everybody and get their perspective. It’s great to have people come in from all over the place,” Sileo said.<\/p>\n
The watch party lasted six and a half hours, which is the length of the entire series minus commercials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLAIRSTOWN, N.J. – Spooky season is officially underway, and a new slasher television show with ties to our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[61345,88,206,54151],"class_list":["post-884000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-warren-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884000","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=884000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}