Linda Cardellini on Playing the ‘Unexplored' Mother of This '80s Slasher Icon: 'Something I'd Never Done'
It's the dead of summer, and A24's collaboration with Peacock has finally revealed the trailer for their series inspired by the harrowing lore behind the hockey mask of Friday the 13thtitan of terror-Jason Voorhees.
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The first look at Camp Crystal Lake just dropped for the upcoming streamer series release from IT: Welcome to Derry, showrunner (and singing voice of Aladdin) Brad Caleb Kane. It's set for release on Peacock on October 15th, and star Linda Cardellini dished on what it's like to take on the mantle of the genre's original killer mother.
In a recent interview with Deadline, star Linda Cardellini talked about playing Pamela Voorhees. "She's important to the series, but sort of unexplored. "So I thought that would be really, really fun to do something I'd never done," she said. From the trailer, we get a sense that Cardellini's take gets to explore the complex and cathartic unraveling of the character, originally played by Betsy Palmer in the 1980 horror classic. It's going to be exciting to see a mother in mourning after her son Jason drowns at summer camp and how that sets off a chain of grizzly teen murders.
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Cardellini also told the trade that Kane really built upon the mythology of the iconic hockey-masked killer's mother, adding that he "has made sort of this mixtape of all the things that he would love to see happen for her. It goes all over the place for her character, and it's really fun," she described regarding how Camp Crystal Lake approaches the direct aftermath of Jason Voorhees' death as a kid and how it makes his mother such an integral part of the Friday the 13th franchise legacy.
Camp Crystal Lake will hit Peacock and stream this Halloween season on October 15th.
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This story was originally published July 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM.