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 beg...