Crystal Lake’s Linda Cardellini on Friday the 13th Prequel Series

“Crystal Lake” star Linda Cardellini is teasing the upcoming “Friday the 13^th” prequel television series.

Cardellini stars in the Peacock series as the franchise antagonist Pamela Voorhees. The show, premiering Oct. 15 on the streamer, follows Voorhees’ life prior to the events of the first “Friday the 13th” film. It also stars William Catlett as Levon Brooks, though exact character details remain under wraps. 

“I remember one of my most fun moviegoing experiences was I saw ‘Freddy vs. Jason’ on the Universal City Walk, which is a giant movie theater, at the height of its popularity, and people were screaming at the screen and throwing things,” she told me Sunday at the HBO Max Emmy Nominee Celebration event in Hollywood.

Does she predict the same for the new TV show? “This is a longer format so there’s a lot more you get to do in eight episodes,” Cardellini said. “It’s not necessarily like 90 minutes of pure horror. There’s a lot of story there. So maybe once in a while you’ll throw some things and scream.”

And possibly cover your eyes.

“It does get gory, yes, so much so that I wish sometimes they weren’t as practical as they were,” Cardellini said. “There’s a couple of gory moments on set that were very practical that were pretty gross. Blood everywhere at one point.”

Cardellini said most horror scripts she’s given are for characters who are running away from the killer. “Everything that I’ve ever read that was handed to me that was in that space was for the person who was being chased, not the person who was chasing everyone,” she said. “It was really fun this time to be on the other side of the knife.”

Pamela first appeared in the original “Friday the 13^th” movie in 1980 as Jason’s mother. She exacts revenge on people who she believed were responsible for Jason’s drowning in 1957 at Camp Crystal Lake.

Cardellini attended the HBO Max Emmy event to celebrate her nomination for her work in “DTF St. Louis.”