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There is a mask on Jason in Crystal Lake, and the series shows where it came from. It is not the hockey mask, because the season does not get that far. Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane laid that out for Entertainment Weekly ahead of the October 15 premiere on Peacock.
“There is a mask. It might be a different mask than fans are used to, but it will not be a different mask than fans have seen,” Kane said. “We show the origin story of the mask and why it’s there specifically … and it all connects.”
The Sack Came First
The burlap sack with the single eyehole belongs to Friday the 13th Part 2, released in 1981. The hockey mask does not arrive until Part III the following year. Kane has said the season does not run up through the events of Part III, and the trailer already has Jason under a sack. The sack is the mask with the origin story, and leaning on it is the right instinct for a prequel. A hockey mask with no Part III behind it would only be a costume.
Fifty Gallons of Blood
Effects creator Dave Presto told EW he asked Kane directly whether the show was going to “go full on, like level 10 gore.” Kane wanted 10. Presto puts the season’s consumption at “probably 50 gallons of blood,” if not more. “Which is an obscene amount of blood,” he said. “A gallon of blood is a lot.”
Twelve Years Old Under the Prosthetics
Callum Vinson plays Jason, and he is 12. The makeup ran four and a half hours the first time out and came down to 90 minutes by the end of the shoot. “It’s a lot, but it makes you feel so cool,” he told EW. “It’s like you’re putting on Iron Man’s mask; you’re putting on Spider-Man’s mask.” On the character itself he was more serious: “He’s just a normal boy and he just wants to fit in with everybody, but since he had this deformation in his head, he got bullied a lot.”
Pamela Carries Season One
The killer in season 1 is Linda Cardellini’s Pamela Voorhees, not her son. Victor Miller wrote the 1980 original and built her out of roughly fifteen minutes of screen time; he is credited as an executive producer on the series and died on September 2 at 86. Kane has been describing the show as a paranoid ’70s thriller with slasher DNA since last year, and the blood figure is the clearest number anyone has put on that yet.
Cardellini is joined by William Catlett as Levon Brooks, Devin Kessler as Briana Brooks, Cameron Scoggins as Dorf and Gwendolyn Sundstrom as Grace. All eight episodes land on Peacock on Thursday, October 15.