Inside Jason Voorhees wild origin story in Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake

Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you’ve watched “Crystal Lake.”The “Friday the 13th” prequel series “Crystal Lake” finally reveals how the iconic horror villain Jason Voorhees is virtually indestructible and keeps coming back to life.In the series — which is set in the ’70s and shows Jason’s mom Pamela on a killing spree after he allegedly drowns in a lake — it’s revealed that a shadowy entity was running experiments on him after he was born.“I wanted to ground it in real-world things that were happening at the time,” the show’s creator Brad Caleb Kane exclusively told The Post.“When you’re talking about the ‘50s and ’60s, institutions were doing these things.” One of the real-life examples Kane cited includes the 40-year Tuskegee study that ran between 1932 and 1972, where black men with syphilis were unknowingly studied and were not offered treatment for the disease, even when it was readily available.

He also cited Vanderbilt’s human radiation experiments in the ’40s, where pregnant women were unknowingly given radioactive cocktails or pills to track how the body absorbed iron during pregnancy.A study was later published that three of the children likely died due to radiation exposure, according to the Washington Post.Kane added he really wanted to “lean into what was going on in the county at the time” for Pam and Jason’s backstory.Viewers learn early on that Pam has a mysterious past when two men from a shadowy corporation show up.

It’s later revealed in a flashback that she was brought to a company by Jason’s father, Elias, while pregnant, where sinister scientists gave her drugs. After Jason was born, Elias then took his son to be experimented on.As Elias explains on the show, scientists were experimenting on human subjects during the Cold War with the goal of giving them the qualities of a cockroach –  hoping they could engineer people who could survive a nuclear blast. After Pam disc...