Linda Cardellini on musical ‘Crystal Lake’ murderer Pamela Voorhees and her favourite Prince and Madonna albums

Linda Cardellini has spoken to NME about Crystal Lake , the Friday The 13th prequel series in which she plays Jason’s vengeful mum Pamela Voorhees.

READ MORE: ‘Crystal Lake’ review: ‘Friday The 13th’ prequel gives Jason’s mum a twisted origin story In the original 1980 film, attempts by a group of teenagers to reopen the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake are derailed when they start getting murdered by a mysterious cloaked assassin.

As the body count rises, it’s revealed that grieving mother Pamela Voorhees is the brutal killer.

Her son, Jason, supposedly drowned at the camp 22 years earlier when the counsellors who should have been supervising him were off having sex in a nearby supply shed – and the murders were Pamela’s revenge.

As Mrs Voorhees, actor Betsy Palmer only had a few minutes of screen time, but she created a lasting impression on a generation of slasher fanatics.

The next 11 movies mostly focused on her masked menace of a son Jason, but new prequel series Crystal Lake explores Pamela’s twisted origin story.

“You can’t deny that it is part of a franchise that has many movies as well as fans who are attached to every [one of those].

But it goes back before the first movie begins, so there is room to expand [the story],” Linda Cardellini told NME .

“Betsy Palmer plays this incredible Pam Voorhees at the end of the first movie.

She is Pam.

Her version is the version… but to be able to expand on that is fun.” She won’t get drawn on where Pam Voorhees sits in the list of horror’s all-time scariest killers though.

“That’s for the audience to decide… although it’s pretty terrifying in the original movie, because you expect [the killer] to be another camper,” she said.

“The fact it’s this grown woman who was a trusted cook at the camp, and had this history that nobody knew about, is pretty crazy.” Cardellini only had a week between wrapping work on the Emmy-winning flirty dark comedy DTF St.

Louis and embarking on production for Crystal Lake , but that contrast was a thrilling one.