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Was Jason Voorhees Always Meant to Be Sympathetic? Crystal Lake Goes Back to the Bullied Boy
Crystal Lake is making Jason Voorhees more sympathetic than the Friday the 13th movies ever did. The prequel puts a sweet, bullied young Jason…
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Jenna Ortega Shares the Feelings She Had About Wednesday Prior to Its Release: “I Didn’t Think It Was Working at All.”
While speaking to Josh Horowitz of Happy Sad Confused, Jenna Ortega opened up about her experiences while filming the first season of Wednesday. For…
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Linda Cardellini’s Laugh in the Crystal Lake Finale Is Why She Deserves an Emmy
Linda Cardellini’s performance as Pamela Voorhees in Crystal Lake is the kind of work that quietly redefines a character most people only knew as…
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Crystal Lake’s Self-Help Guru Draws on Est, the Real 1970s Seminar Movement That Gave Leaders Power Over Vulnerable People
Crystal Lake’s self-help guru draws on a real 1970s seminar culture that gave leaders power over vulnerable people. Wilhelm Richter (played by Nathan Darrow)…
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Crystal Lake Turns the Devoted Single Mom of Reba McEntire’s ‘I’m a Survivor’ into Pamela Voorhees
The mother in Reba McEntire’s 2001 song “I’m a Survivor” endures through constant struggles for her children. In Peacock’s Crystal Lake, Pamela Voorhees, played…
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Jessica Lange Ranked Her Four American Horror Story Characters, and Her Favorite Came from the Season Fans Rated Lowest
Jessica Lange puts Elsa Mars, the performer who runs the carnival in American Horror Story: Freak Show, at the top of her character ranking.…
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The ‘Boy Meets World’ Halloween Episode the Network Worried Was Too Dark to Air
In 1998, at the height of both teen slashers and Boy Meets World’s popularity, the show turned after-school detention into a funny, high-concept horror…
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American Horror Story Season 14 Is Official, and Ryan Murphy Wants to Take It International
American Horror Story has a 14th season secured at FX with its season 13 finale still ahead on October 29. Co-creator Ryan Murphy is…
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‘Crystal Lake’ Finally Explains How Jason Voorhees Seems to be Immortal
In Crystal Lake, Project Argonaut is a secret experimental program run by the Bellflower company. Its goal is to create a human capable of…
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‘Crystal Lake’ Shows How the Advances of Feminism Protect Women and Children
Set in the 1970s, Crystal Lake shows how much easier it was for an husband to trap his wife and children in a world…
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‘Crystal Lake’ Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane Knows Some Fans Won’t Like His Jason Voorhees
“Now, I know that some fans will have their machetes out because they like Jason to be a revenant, mysterious, and supernatural. I grant…
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It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 Goes Back to 1935 and Promises a Pennywise You’ve Never Seen Before
Season 2 of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ goes back to 1935 and promises “a different kind of Pennywise, Pennywise the way you’ve never seen…
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Before Linda Cardellini Was Slicing and Dicing as Mrs. Voorhees, She Was Committing Hair Crimes in ‘Legally Blonde’
Linda Cardellini has made a career out of getting away with murder on screen — and her latest turn as one of horror’s most…
