Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees
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Peacock剧集《水晶湖》虽设定为《十三号星期五》前传，但观感并不像该系列电影。剧集试图在致敬与开拓新领域之间构建剧情，并为帕梅拉·沃赫斯补充期待已久的背景故事。帕梅拉是首部电影中的反派，当年仅出场13分钟便被斩首，角色缺乏深度，原演员贝琪·帕尔默也因此拒绝回归。尽管杰森成为系列标志性人物，其母亲帕梅拉仍令了解甚少的粉丝着迷。评论认为，剧集对帕梅拉的执念在
Peacock’s series, Crystal Lake, doesn’t feel like a Friday the 13th movie when you first press play, even though it’s set up to be a prequel to the original film. (This review includes spoilers of the original Friday the 13th movie but avoids major Crystal Lake spoilers.)
Instead, Crystal Lake strives to build a drama that’s half homage, half uncharted territory while giving a long-awaited backstory to Pamela Voorhees. The original villain in the first film, Pam Voorhees, shocked audiences in 1980 by popping up out of nowhere in the midst of a brutal camp counselor killing spree, then confronting the final girl with a Norman Bates-like delivery of the movie’s chilling tagline, “Kill her, mommy,” using the voice of her drowned son Jason.
Betsy Palmer as Pam Voorhees in Friday the 13th. Credit: via Paramount Pictures Linda Cardellini as Pam Voorhees in Crystal Lake. Credit: via PeacockAlthough the hockey-masked killer, Jason Voorhees, became the horror icon at the center of the franchise, his mom, Pam, continued to fascinate fans who knew very little about her. Beheaded in the first film after just 13 minutes onscreen, her spirit would occasionally appear in later films, but the original actor, Betsy Palmer, who portrayed Pam refused to return, largely because the character has no depth.
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