As you know with holidays like Halloween, folks flock to the internet to check out where they can watch their favorite scary movies, and with the recent massive launch of CRYSTAL LAKE on Peacock in close proximity to Halloween, it feels like a no brainer that the streamer is the home of horror this holiday season.
Whether it be to watch this new telling of the cult classic story, which has amassed 1.3 billion minutes watched over its first 11 days, making it the fourth highest scripted original series ever on Peacock, or to check out the strong library that Peacock houses with films such as Friday the 13th Parts 1/2/3, The Purge franchise, Paranormal Activity 1/2/3, Scream 1/2/3, The Universal Monster Collection, any and all things related to the iconic scream queen, Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween 2, Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills, The Fog, Prom Night). It feels like Peacock has really stepped up the game to be the platform for folks to turn to to celebrate their Halloween programming.
CRYSTAL LAKE STATS
-Peacock’s expansion of the iconic Friday the 13th universe, “Crystal Lake” has generated 1.3 billion minutes watched over its first 11 days, making it the fourth highest scripted original series ever on Peacock.
-In its first week on the Nielsen charts following its Oct. 15 premiere, “Crystal Lake” ranks as the #4 streaming original series and #3 among all first-season series.
-Across social media, “Crystal Lake” garnered 1.8 billion earned impressions in the first 24 hours and has more than 7.6 million video views in its first 11 days.
Source: Sprout social media
-The series also boasts a critics score of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.
ABOUT CRYSTAL LAKE
A prequel to the Friday the 13th franchise, the series follows single mother Pam Voorhees who has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?
SERIES DETAILS
Creator / writer / showrunner / executive producer: Brad Caleb Kane (It: Welcome to Derry, Tokyo Vice, Warrior)
Executive producers: Brad Caleb Kane, Marc Toberoff, Victor Miller, Robert M. Barsamian, Robert P. Barsamian, Stuart Manashil, Tyson Bidner, Michael Lennox, Roy Lee
Directors: Michael Lennox (101-103), Celine Held & Logan George (104-106), Quyen Tran (107-108)
Series regulars: Linda Cardellini, William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, Gwendolyn Sundstrom
Recurring cast: Callum Vinson, Nick Cordileone, Joy Suprano, Danielle Kotch, Phoenix Parnevik
Studio: A24
Format: Drama series, 8 x 60-min episodes
PEACOCK HALLOWEEN PROGRAMMING
TV series and Halloween episodes
· – Crystal Lake
· – Teacup
· – Chucky
· – The Office — iconic Halloween episodes
· – Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Halloween Heist episodes
Universal Monsters
· – Dracula (1931)
· – Frankenstein (1931)
· – The Wolf Man (1941)
· – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
· – The Invisible Man (1933)
· – The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Family-friendly Halloween
· – Spookley, the Square Pumpkin
· – Casper
· – The Book of Life
· – The Addams Family (2019)
· – The Addams Family 2 (2021)
· – Monster Family
· – Little Monsters
· – The Munsters
· – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Modern horror and thrillers
· – Obsession
· – Night Swim
· – Sinister
· – Sinister 2
· – Strung
· – Sick
· – They/Them
· – The Lazarus Effect
· – The Woman in the Yard
· – Drop
· – You Should Have Left
· – Hush
· – Happy Death Day
· – Unfriended: Dark Web
· – The Exorcist: Believer
· – Five Nights at Freddy’s
· – Freaky
· – Get Out
· – Ma
· – The Invitation
· – The Sacrament
· – The Endless
· – Synchronic
· – The Thing (2011)
Halloween and slasher franchises
· – Friday the 13th
· – Friday the 13th Part 2
· – Friday the 13th Part III
· – Paranormal Activity
· – Paranormal Activity 2
· – Paranormal Activity 3
· – The Purge
· – The Purge: Election Year
· – The First Purge
· – The Forever Purge
· – Halloween II (1981)
· – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
· – Halloween (2007)
· – Halloween II (2009)
· – Halloween (2018)
· – Halloween Kills
· – Halloween Kills — Extended Cut
Classic and supernatural horror
· – Black Christmas
· – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
· – Psycho
· – The Birds
· – The Ring
· – Terrifier
· – The Omen
· – The Messengers
· – The Grudge 3
· – Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
· – The Ward
· – The Skeleton Key
· – Silent Hill
· – The Exorcist III
· – You’re Not Alone
· – Silent House
· – Drag Me to Hell
· – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
· – Alligator
· – Sleepaway Camp
Horror-comedy and cult favorites
· Shaun of the Dead
· Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
· American Psycho
· Meet the Blacks
· The Funhouse Massacre
· Better Watch Out
· Krampus
· The People Under the Stairs
· Tragedy Girls
· Villains
· The Love Witch
