'Crystal Lake' Pays Tribute to Snake Killed in Making of 'Friday the 13th': 'A Direct Nod'

More Than 45 Years After the First Friday the 13th, Brad Keene Is Correcting a Mistake From the 1980 Slasher Series. The creator of Crystal Lake noted that the snake Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini) frees after finding it in the camp storehouse in Part One is a 'direct nod' to a […]

More than 45 years after the first Friday the 13th, Brad Caleb Kane is righting a wrong from the 1980 slasher franchise.

Ahead of Friday's Peacock broadcast, the Crystal Lake creator hinted that the snake Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini) frees after finding it in the camp's barn in the first episode is a "direct nod" to the trained snake that was actually killed during the filming of the original movie.

"But [Pam] is a different person in the first episode than the kids [in the film]," he explained. "Yeah, it's a direct nod, but then it goes back to the first movie."

Kane explained, "But we don't actually kill a snake in a few hours. No, no animals were harmed in the making of Crystal Lake. Some hippies may have been harmed in the making of Crystal Lake, but no animals." Watch on Deadline

During the filming of the original 1980 slasher film Friday the 13th, a real-life domesticated bull snake was infamously killed while filming a scene in which "Final Girl" Alice (Adrienne King) sees the reptile slithering around her cabin and calls out to her fellow counselors for help.

In the scene, Bill (Harry Crosby) runs in with a machete and kills the snake, before it is shown writhing on the floor and dying. The cast and crew have since revealed that the sequence was real, noting that the snake keeper was unaware of the film's intentions and was "unrelenting" afterwards.

Launching PETA two months before Friday the 13th premiered in 1980, no animal welfare laws were still in place during the filming of Sean S. There is Cunningham.

Streaming Friday Crystal Lake stars Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees, who struggles to grieve after her son Jason drowned the previous summer. When two strangers begin digging into her mysterious past, Pam goes to deadly lengths to keep her secrets hidden.

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