Ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma — ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma… Now, received wisdom would have it that those iconic sounds from Harry Manfredini Friday The 13th score are syllabic representations of Jason Voorhees’ voice in his mother’s head saying “kill her, mother!” We put it to you that it’s actually short for “keep, keep, keep, making, making, making Friday The 13th projects,” which is what we imagine the folks at Peacock and A24 heard while shooting upcoming prequel series Crystal Lake. But now the voices may hush, as Crystal Lake is in the can and officially has a release date!
Hailing from creator, writer, showrunner, and executive producer Brad Caleb Kane (Tokyo Vice, Fringe), Crystal Lake is due to hit Peacock stateside on 15 October. Admittedly, Thursday the 15th doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as Friday the 13th, but it is releasing two weeks before Halloween, making for some suitably spooky seasonal programming nevertheless. Plot specifics on Kane’s long-gestating series are still being kept pretty hush-hush for now, but we do know that the show will see Linda Cardellini play a younger Pamela Voorhees, introduced here as ‘a mother who gave up a singing career to raise a special needs child and takes a dark turn when she loses her son.’ Said child — said son — is, of course, Jason Voorhees, the restless spirit who becomes a hockey mask wearing, hack-and-slashing machine in each of Friday The 13th‘s sequels. Joining Cardellini in the cast for this one are William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins and Gwendolyn Sundstrom.
Despite jesting at the vast quantities of Hollywood horror sequels/reboots at the top of this piece, it’s worth noting that by the time Crystal Lake hits Peacock on 15 October (and hopefully somewhere accessible here in the UK soon after), it will have actually been almost 18 years since the Voorhees’ last appearance. Here’s hoping this return to Crystal Lake works out a little better!
