Slasher fans continue to wait for a much-anticipated 13th Friday the 13th film. (C’mon, it’s been 17 years!) But they’ll soon be able to return to those familiar bloody campgrounds in a new series on Peacock, Crystal Lake. The series features Linda Cardellini as a younger Pamela Voorhees, mother of Jason Voorhees, and the killer from the original 1980 film. And now, we have our first creepy trailer for the series, which will focus on Pamela Voorhees’ mental unraveling after her son Jason drowns, thanks to negligent camp counselors. You can watch the Crystal Lake teaser trailer, using that original Friday the 13th font, right here:
A24 produces the series, in a departure for the company, which usually specializes in original, non-franchise horror. After a series of creative shake-ups, including Bryan Fuller helming the series for a short time, the show landed in Brad Kane’s hands. Kane recently had a hand in the excellent It: Welcome to Derry series, another prequel to a beloved horror IP. Although Jason is not the focus, a child version of the future hockey-masked slasher will play a role. Callum Vinson, who will wear makeup and prosthetics, plays a young Jason Voorhees with an enlarged head from hydrocephalus. Despite being a prequel to the original, the Crystal Lake series is taking liberties. Jason’s drowning originally took place in 1957. Crystal Lake pushes those events to the ’70s. We can see some of this come to life in the super creepy teaser trailer for Crystal Lake. Who doesn’t love the sound of creepy children singing and the sound of a whisper saying, “Mommy’s here.”
Crystal Lake cast Cardellini based on her role in Netflix’s Dead to Me. In that series, she played a very complex and traumatized character. Of course, as the original live-action Velma in Scooby-Doo, she’s no stranger to spooky material. Cardellini said to Entertainment Weekly, “She’s only in such a small fraction of the movies, and there’s very little actually known about her. But she’s the inciting incident in some ways. She’s an important piece of the puzzle, but a relatively unknown one.” Kane assures fans that even though the series is different from the films, it’s still a slasher at heart. And we can definitely see that in the Crystal Lake teaser trailer.
In addition to the Crystal Lake teaser trailer, you can check out a few more first-look images below.
Crystal Lake drops the first episode of its eight-episode season on October 15, just in time for spooky season.