By Peacock’s Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake has cast its Jason Voorhees, but rather than an unkillable slasher in a hockey mask, he’s an absolutely cherubic actor named Callum Vincent who’s just about 10 years old.
Vincent recently had a tragically memorable guest appearance in Peacock’s streaming hit Poker Face as a sweet but hapless school boy who accidentally kills the class pet after being set up by a rival student.
Jason being a kid isn’t really a surprise, given the series flashes back to the original Friday the 13th movie in which Jason’s mom Pamela Voorhees (played by Linda Cardellini in Crystal Lake) goes on a murder spree to avenge her son’s death at the hands of careless summer camp counselors.
Still, it seems that it could be quite a while before Crystal Lake turns Jason into the unstoppable horny-teenager-killing machine of the bulk of the original horror franchise – though it’s possible the whole thing is leading to a new Friday the 13th reboot movie.
The film franchise has been dormant since 2009’s relaunch attempt, which once had a sequel planned before the entire thing got tied up in a rights dispute.
A new movie has been teased since 2022, and we may not actually have to wait so long for that famous hockey mask to once again haunt the big screen. A new version of Jason’s iconic mask debuted to mark the launch of the new Friday the 13th ‘Jason Universe’ that starts with Crystal Lake.
Crystal Lake doesn’t have an announced premiere date just yet. While we wait, check out our picks for the 30 best horror movies that will haunt you long after the credits roll.