Very soon, the horrors of the Voorhees family will be ki-ki-ki-mah-mah-making their way onto television by way of Crystal Lake, the new prequel series to the Friday the 13th franchise, created by IT: Welcome to Derry co-showrunner, Brad Caleb Kane. The upcoming show will follow Linda Cardellini as a young Pamela Voorhees, the first original killer in the Friday the 13th franchise, which, honestly, is invaluable information if a serial killer ever calls you asking horror trivia questions.
Just how bloodthirsty Cardellini’s take on the character will be is unknown, as are a lot of other plot details about the show. What Kane has confirmed, though, is that things will certainly get messy. "In many ways, it's a psychological thriller. It's a paranoid '70s thriller," the showrunner explained to Entertainment Weekly in a recent interview. "It has all of the DNA of a slasher without quite being a slasher. There are rivers of blood in the show. There are very, I think, ingenious kill sequences and deaths and murders, but it's all done in service of character and theme and place and time.”
