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Starring: Amy Steel, John Furey, Kirsten Baker Produced and Directed by: Steve Miner Written by: Ron Kurz Based on Characters Created by: Victor Miller Co-Producer: Dennis Murphy Editor: Susan E. Cunningham Associate Producer: Frank Mancuso, Jr. Executive Producers: Tom Gruenberg, Lisa Barsamian Music by: Harry Manfredini Special Make-Up Effects: Carl Fullerton Casting by: Simon & Kumin Production Designer: Virginia Field Director of Photography: Peter Stein MPAA Rating: R Theatrical Release Year: 1981 Running Time: 87 minutes Soundtrack: Mono Aspect Ratio 1.85:1

The body count continues.

PROLOGUE

The terrifying nightmares have driven Alice (ADRIENNE KING) to an emotional breaking point. Every night the bloodied images of the experience thrash at her: the murderous and mad Mrs. Voorhees (BETSY PALMER), having hideously dispensed of seven fellow counsellors, has targeted Alice for death. The horrors return in these demonic dreams, as they had in real life, as Alice tries to run away from the crazed killer, finally destroying the menacing madwoman in one powerful swing with a machete, decapitating her. Numbed and semi-conscious, Alice drifted in the lake in a canoe, believing the terror had ended, finally. Suddenly an aquatic demon, the drowned Jason (son of Mrs. Voorhees) reaches from his watery grave to grab Alice for death's clutch, a slimy, raging and heinous monster avenging the death of his own mother...the nightmare... Alice awakens, startled, edgy and unnerved by her memories. Every sound she hears strikes terror, every shadow lurks madly. ls it all in her mind, why does her imagination bring such terror-laced images? In an instant, all the horror swells up in her again as Alice opens the refrigerator where, sitting on a shelf is the severed head of Mrs. Voorhees, a demonic smile on her lips. An arm snaps out and grabs Alice, and an ice pick is thrust at her face, through the base of her nose, out the other side.

FIVE YEARS LATER

Jeff and Sandy are on their way to begin their counselor training at Lake Region, picking up their friend Ted in their souped up truck. Their journey is interrupted by a large dead limb blocking the road, near which they dis- cover a paint-peeled sign: CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE, the infamous "Camp Blood" where coun- selors had been murdered. A prowler lurks, watching their every move with blood lust. Camp leader Paul begins his instructors' train- ing sessions, warning the counselors (which include his girl friend, Ginny, the wheelchair- bound Mark, the seductive Vickie) about the dangerous bears in the area. Later at the camp- fire, Paul relates the story of Jason's drowned body never having been recovered from the same lake they border, and legend has it that Jason has been living off wild animals and vegetations all these years, waiting to kill to avenge his mother. A disgusting form jumps at them, but it turns out to be only Ted disguised with rubber mask, holding a large spear. The prowler sees all this, and will soon dispense a nosy Crazy Ralph (WALT GORNEY) with a garotte of barbed wire looped and tightened around his neck. The curious Jeff and Sandy, disobeying or- ders, go to take a look at the infamous "Camp Blood" area, but a local policeman chases them from the off-limits area. As the cop investi- gates for himself, he is smashed from behind by a hammer, which crushes through his skull and brain. There is a full moon as a group of counselors head to The Casino for a night of carousing, while others stay behind at camp. Terry, look- ing for her missing dog, goes for a nude swim, but is spied on by a playful Scott, who is sud- denly caught in a snare and pulled upside down into the air. When Terry goes for a knife to cut him free, Scott's jugular is sliced by a curved machete wielded by the prowler. When Terry returns, she, too, is dispatched by the shrouded figure. The crippled Mark is waiting for the sexy and seductive Vickie to return to his cabin when a curved machete blade splits the boy's head like a melon. When Vickie arrives, she cannot find Mark. Jeff and Sandra, meanwhile, have retired to the upstairs bedroom, and are making love. A bloodied spear, held with two hands, plunges down and impales both bodies as blood totally covers the bed. Vickie searches upstairs and is also murdered. When Paul and Ginny return from the local watering hole, they are confronted by the de- monic shape of Jason. He and Paul grapple, but it is clear Jason has won the battle. A terrified Ginny tries to escape, but a pitchfork goes through the door. Ginny manages to escape from the cabin. An attempt to drive to safety in the VW bug is foiled when the engine dies. She is almost pitchforked to death when discovered hiding under a bed, but gains an advantage when she grabs a chain saw that she uses to defend herself against Jason. She cuts him, and he momentarily relents. There seems nowhere to run, no turn that doesn't bring death. As Ginny restlessly runs through the forest, she comes across Jason's cabin. There, in the back room she discovers the most nauseating and terrifying vision she has ever seen: Mrs. Voorhees' decapitated head, its features still distinguishable, is on top of the altar, lighted by candies around it. Sur- rounding the altar are mutilated bodies of some fellow counselors, each horribly bloodied and destroyed. This is Jason's shrine to his slain mother . . the tremors catch Ginny in the gut as she hears Jason returning. Ginny realizes she has but one hope against this crazed killer, and, putting on Mrs. Voorhees' sweater, pretends to be the dead mother, luring the confused Jason to his knees as she readies to kill him with a machete she holds in back of her. "You've done your work," Ginny says as she pretends to be Mrs. Voorhees. "You've made me very happy." As Ginny attempts to kill Jason, he straps her hand. Miraculously, Paul appears, having survived earlier, and he and Jason struggle. Ginny swings the machete into Jason, crunching bone and cartilage. The weap- on is imbedded deep into his torso, his upper body divided into sections. Watching all, Mrs. Voorhees' head seems almost alive. Returning to their own cabin, Paul and Ginny are silent, each emotionally spent by the horror they've experienced. The eerie calm is shattered as a window ex- plodes inward, as Jason comes crashing through. His arms, streaming blood, are out- stretched. His expression is savage on his grotesque face... Ginny abruptly awakens being placed into an ambulance. "Where's Paul?" she begs a state trooper. At the altar Jason has constructed, a faint light bathes the cabin, illuminating the decapitated head of Mrs. Voorhees...

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