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- It has all of the DNA of a slasher without quite being a slasher,” he explained to Entertainment Weekly.
- “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.” Watch on Deadline Related Stories Acquisitions Sky Buys Peacock & A24’s ‘Friday The 13th’ Prequel Series ‘Crystal Lake’ Casting Linda Cardellini Set As Pamela Voorhees In ‘Friday The 13th’ Prequel Series ‘Crystal Lake’ On Peacock Since the original Friday the 13th was released in 1980, Kane is not only exploring genres central to the ’70s, but also the social themes of the era.
- Kane added, “I tried to think about Crystal Lake and a Friday the 13th prequel as, ‘What era did the first movie come out of?’ It came out of the paranoid ’70s thriller era.
- It came out of the mistrust-of-institutions era.
