From The Hollywood Reporter · Rick Porter · · 1m 20s
Pam Voorhees breaks in the new Crystal Lake trailer
Peacock's Friday the 13th prequel drops Linda Cardellini into a mother's grief that curdles into something worse.
In brief
Peacock's Friday the 13th prequel drops Linda Cardellini into a mother's grief that curdles into something worse. Crystal Lake bets the franchise on Pam Voorhees, tracing how a grieving mother stops looking for her son and starts hunting. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
A creepier look at Crystal Lake
Peacock released a full trailer for its Friday the 13th prequel series, and the new details lean hard into dread rather than gore.
Cardellini plays the mother
Linda Cardellini takes on Pamela Voorhees, mother of the franchise's unkillable killer, long before the hockey mask exists.
1971, before the legend
The series is set in 1971 and opens with Pam working at Camp Crystal Lake as a lunch lady. Ordinary job, ordinary life.
Then Jason drowns
Her son's drowning is the hinge the whole story turns on. Everything that made the franchise starts as one mother's loss.
She refuses to grieve
A local cop, played by William Catlett, tries to help her move on. Pam is not interested in moving on.
“I don't want to heal. I want to find my son.”
Waking up beside a knife
Convinced Jason is still out in the woods, Pam appears to start dissociating. At one point she wakes with a very large knife beside her.
The one thing
Crystal Lake bets the franchise on Pam Voorhees, tracing how a grieving mother stops looking for her son and starts hunting.
