Peacock’s new horror series Crystal Lake has its full trailer out. Deadline says that the series arrives on October 15th with Brad Caleb Kane (It: Welcome to Derry) as creator of the show.
Based on the famous franchise of Friday the 13th (1980), this series takes place in the summer of 1971 before the famous Jason Voorhees became the slasher, he is most known as. Linda Cardellini (Dead to Me, Freaks and Geeks) plays Jason’s mother, Pamela Voorhees. She is the camp’s lunch lady, and the camp and their counselors are like her second home. However, a year after her son tragically dies from drowning in the lake, she plans to keep the search of her son, thinking he is out in the woods. Her search might be the start of her disconnection from reality. More events follow with two outsiders from the town come to know the truth of not only the Jason’s tragedy but also of who Pam really is. This series will be an origin to how the ghost story of Jason started and how Pam became the killer of the Crystal Lake Camp.
The series will have eight episodes and be around an hour long. The cast in the series include William Catlett (Love Is,True Story), Devin Kessler (Godfather of Harlem), Cameron Scoggins (Nashville, Shades of Blue), and Gwendolyn Sundstrom (I’m Beginning to See the Light). Then there is Callum Vinson (Long Bright River, Chucky), Nick Cordileone (Warrior, Cupid), Joy Suprano (Trouble, Hightown), Danielle Kotch (Person of Interest, Sinister), and Phoenix Parnevik (Sounds of Summer) who will be recurring characters for the series.
The series also has four different directors that are directing different episodes. Michael Lennox (The Back of Beyond,Derry Girls) directs the first three; Celine Held (Topside, Lockdown) and Logan George (Caroline, Lockdown) directs the fourth, fifth, and sixth episodes; and Quyen Tran (The Pitt, The Testaments) directs the last two. Then the executive producers include Brad Caleb Kane, Marc Toberoff (Prey, Predator: Killer of Killers), Victor Miller (Friday the 13th), Robert M. Barsamian (Friday the 13th: The Game, Sweet Revenge), Robert P. Barsamian (Sweet Revenge), Stuart Manashil (To Catch a Killer, Watcher), Tyson Bidner (The Bear, The Whale), Michael Lennox, and Roy Lee (The Long Walk, Weapons).