Head counselor Paul Holt (John Furey) recounts the "legend" of Jason Voorhees—the boy who purportedly drowned in 1957—as a campfire story to frighten the trainees. He maintains that Jason is dead, despite local warnings from characters like Crazy Ralph .
Fast-forwarding five years, the story centers on a new group of counselors-in-training at Packanack Lodge , a facility located near the now-condemned and legendary Camp Crystal Lake .
The film follows a classic slasher structure: counselors are picked off one by one in increasingly creative and violent ways by a masked killer living as a hermit in the woods. Key Cast and Characters
