Animated Jason Vorhees Maquette

In 1957, a young boy named Jason Voorhees drowned at Crystal Lake Camp. In 1958, two camp counselors are murdered. In 1962, fires and bad water thwarted attempts to reopen the Crystal Lake Camp.

Now in 1979, Crystal Lake is finally set to reopen, ignoring the warnings from a local wacko. The murders by a mysterious stalker start once again.