Crystal Lake, a horror series set before the events of Friday the 13th, lands on HBO Max in France on Thursday, October 15, 2026. Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother.
Nearly a year after her son Jason’s drowning, Pamela continues to live near the lake where he lost his life. Unable to move on from her grief, she finds the past resurfacing when two strangers arrive to question her, unleashing a string of unsettling events in the tight-knit community.
The series thus centers on Pamela before she becomes the killer in the first Friday the 13th. It also revisits Jason's childhood and the events that forged the bloody legend of Camp Crystal Lake.
Created by Brad Caleb Kane and produced by A24, the series brings together Linda Cardellini, William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, and Gwendolyn Sundstrom. It expands the franchise’s mythology without simply recycling the usual formula of a masked killer stalking a group of teenagers.
This launch, just days before Halloween, lets HBO Max present a new chapter of a film saga that began in cinemas in 1980, while adopting a serialized format to explore the Voorhees family and the residents of Crystal Lake more deeply.
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