Friday the 13th

Mother's Day

"Jason's back! And he wants his mommy...."

All that remains of Jason Voorhees is the legend. How he drowned and his mother

went berserk and going on a counselor killing spree at Camp Crystal Lake. Then,

after she was cut down by one of them, Jason rose from the grave and continued

the murders. No one could ever kill Jason though, and even after he supposedly

was taken to hell by Satan himself, the townspeople are still weary of outsiders

coming to camp.

Now all that exists in Crystal Lake are the old townspeople who remember the

murders and a vast wasteland of nothing. Deep in the woods, a hunter stalks a

deer. He knows it is not hunting season, but no one in the town seems to care

who lives or dies, so he hunts and no one can stop him. He moves in for the kill

and just before he pulls the trigger, he trips and falls over something. Cursing

as he sees his prey escape, he looks back to see what tripped him. It was a

white unmarked gravestone. Recalling the troubled past of Crystal Lake, he

decides to dig and maybe retrieve a souvenir of the gory past to savor and show

off to the guys at the local bar. He gets a shovel and starts to dig. After a

while, he finds a wet cardboard box. He then opens it and cannot stop screaming.

Meanwhile, in a small town nearby, Billy Boone organizes a trip for him and his

friends to spend a weekend at Camp Crystal Lake and neglects to tell them the

legend of its storied past. Despite being kicked out of school, Boone manages to

convince a few of his fellow high school friends to go. Kyle and Suzanne, a

retro couple that love yoga and woodstock; Monique Dufy, a transfer student from

Paris who complains if she breaks a nail; Paul Sexton, a past graduate and

athletic buff who has all the ladies at his feet; Albert Harris, Paul's pudgy

roommate from Brown University who is afraid of the dark; and Carly McDonnell,

Boone's on again, off again, unofficial girlfriend, who claims she hates him,

but doesn't want to admit she actually likes him. Carly, who lost her father at

a young age, is sheltered by her mother, who doesn't like her to even go out

with her friends. But with a little convincing by Boone, Carly is able to go

along.

Back in the woods, the hunter takes the cardboard box and waits back to his

cabin and waits for dark, where he "follows instructions" and gets a backhoe and

starts digging in a specific spot. With the rain beating down and a huge hole

dug in the ground, the hunter continues to follow orders and ultimately finds a

white hockey mask-- the same hockey mask worn by Jason Voorhees--and puts it on.

The pain is intense, but all of a sudden, the hunter feels as if he is a new

man, as if he was re-born, complete with a dark gleam in his eye that has not

been seen for a long, long time.

Meanwhile, the teens set out Friday night, the 13th, on their journey to camp.

After over two hours on the road, they decide to stop for a restroom break at

the local gas station, where they meet owner Ned Varner. Ned reminds them of the

Jason Voorhees legend, and Albert and Monique get scared senseless. That is when

they learn of Boone's deceit in telling them everything about the trip, except

for the one important part-- the Voorhees legend. Despite their anger, Boone

convinces them all is well, and they continue to camp.

Back in the woods, Mr. and Mrs. Rick Perkins, who have lived in Crystal Lake

through it all--every murder spree, every tale of blood and gore, are suddenly

worried about their friend Joe Travers, the hunter. Rick tells his wife that he

went over to Travers' place and found it empty, except for one Mother's Day

card. The only thing ironic about that is that Joe Travers' mother has been dead

for 5 years, he continued. Knowing that something is wrong, the Perkins' decide

to act on their "Sixth Sense for trouble" and call Sheriff Delaney. However,

when they open their front screen door, standing there, shotgun in hand, is the

hockey-masked killer of Crystal Lake, back for more blood. Two shots rang out

and two bodies were collected.

The teens finally arrive at Camp, and it is far from what they all expected. It

is a run down, isolated decrepit campsite, complete with old weatherbeaten

cabins. Boone considers it paradise, but the others don't. It is then that Carly

gets closer to Paul, whom all the ladies seem to love. After a hike, Paul and

Carly hold hands and are about to kiss when Albert interrupts the romantic scene

and tells them how much he hates it there. That night, after moving in, they sit

around a campfire and chat.

Everyone except Kyle and Suzanne is there, and Boone and Paul jokingly talk

about "rabbits" and then Kyle and Suzanne show up, making the joke even more

funny to the group. Grilling burgers, roasting marshmallows and drinking beer

(the only drinks they had), the group is soon rowdier than ever, when Boone

reveals how he got Mrs. McDonnell's permission for Carly to go. He said that he

pretended he was the Social Studies teacher from school and that this would be a

"class trip." Disgusted and angry, Carly runs off, not noticing the menace in

the white mask lurking nearby.

At midnight that night, the campfire is pretty much abandoned. Kyle and Suzanne

went off to their cabin to meditate, Boone went for a walk, Paul and Albert went

back to their cabin and Monique and Carly went to theirs. After trying to sleep

with little success, Carly shines her flashlight around the room, and when she

flashes it by the window, she shines it on a man's face looking in.

The face turns out to be Paul, who asks her to go for a walk, which she gladly

accepts, leaving Monique alone at the cabin. Albert, after dreaming of making

out with Monique, decides to go back to sleep and call it a night.

Paul and Carly's walk winds up at the dock of Crystal Lake, where Paul puts the

moves on her, much like he has done to many other girls in the past. Carly is

strong, however, and resists, wanting to take it slowly. Disgusted, Paul then

offers to go skinny-dipping, which Carly also refuses. Carly leaves as Paul

strips in front of her and goes into the lake, saying that she will never get a

second chance.

Also disgusted, Carly starts to run, but runs right into a hockey-masked maniac,

and just as he is about to stab her with a butcher's knife, the maniac takes off

the mask to reveal that it is Boone. Carly gets further infuriated and goes to

bed.

Saturday, the next morning, everyone is rudely awakened by the tunes of

Motorhead, as Boone hooked up some large speakers and blasted the heavy metal as

the wake-up call. All day, everyone hangs out at the lake. Boone finds a canoe,

which he takes Monique in and rows off deep into the other side of the lake.

Kyle and Suzanne decide to sit on the dock and do their favorite thing--

meditate. Paul and Carly have an argument, which leads to them having a relay

race in the woods. Albert, disgusted about the whole situation, decides to try

to head into town and find a phone to call his mother to wish her a Happy

Mother's Day. With everyone gone, Kyle and Suzanne continue their deep

meditation. Halfway through one meditation, Kyle hears a noise in the water. But

instead of checking it out, he continues to meditate, choosing mind over matter.

He hears the noise again, and again does nothing. An instant later, both Kyle

and Suzanne are slit in the throat from ear to ear in one swipe by the

hockey-masked killer.

Back in the woods, Paul wins the race, but decides to keep running, while Carly

heads back to camp. Albert finally reaches town after a long hike and finds a

pay phone. He calls his mother, but she cannot hear a word he says and hangs up

on him. Disgraced, Albert decids to go to Varner's house to use his phone. When

he gets there, it is Norman Bates all over again, as he finds Ned's dead and

embalmed mother sitting in the chair rotting away. Varner then shows up and

chases Albert back into the woods with a pair of shears.

Meanwhile, Paul finishes up his run and then relaxes by an old tree, out of

breath, tired and sore. He looks up and sees a man wearing a white hockey mask

and tries to escape, but it is no use. He has no energy left. Chalk up another

one for the killer.

Albert, still trying to escape Varner, trips over a certain white grave marker

and falls hard to the ground. Now knowing he is out of energy, he just stops.

Trying to defend himself, he throws rocks at Varner, who seems more terrified

than he should be by Albert. Albert then realized that Varner was not looking at

him, but rather past him and what was directly behind him. Albert turned around

and met his doom, as the killer dispatched both Albert and Varner. The voice

then tells the hunter "good work, but there's more left to be done."

Back in the canoe, Monique is bored with Boone and wants to head back, but then

Boone livens it up a little by rocking the boat. That leads to Boone and Monique

kissing twice, but then with Boone falling into the water. Monique screams as

Boone does not surface. A second later, someone surfaces, but it is not Boone,

it is the hunter. He continues his terror, bashing Monique's head off the side

of the canoe and then stabbing her to death with a hunting knife. Boone, not

knowing any of this, finally re-surfaces and finds Monique's body. Now realizing

that the legend is true, the hunter attacks Boone, but Boone fights back and

wallops the killer in the throat with an oar.

Back at camp, Carly puts down her love novel and decides to go look for the

others. She goes down to the lake and cannot believe the horror as she finds

Kyle and Suzanne's bodies back-to-back. She screamed and shook Suzanne, but

Suzanne's body hit the dock with a thud and that upset Kyle's body, which landed

on her feet, eyes open, but dead.

Realizing she had to get out of there, she tries to use Kyle's Volkswagen van,

but the keys were locked inside of it. She then runs to Paul's convertible, but

there are no keys. After running to Paul's cabin and retrieving his keys, she

starts it up with a roar, but then realized that she could not drive the

standard transmission! She then checked the backseat to make sure no one was

there, and was about to pull out, when the hunter appeared out of nowhere and

cracked the windshield with the butt-end of his shotgun. The hunter then did it

again, splashing glass all over Carly and just missing hitting her chin. She

then tried to escape, but the killer grabs her, pulls her out of the hole in the

windshield, whacks her head off of the hood of the car and throws her to the

ground. The hunter then pointed both barrels of his shotgun at her forehead and

opened fire.

Carly opened her eyes and she couldn't believe she was still alive. The shot

misfired, as Boone knocked the hunter to the ground in the nick of time. She

looked up and saw Boone violently attack the killer in the headlights of the

car. Boone repeatedly stabbed the hunter until the hunter was down and out on

the ground. Carly and Boone then realized they needed to leave and boarded

Boone's Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle to get the hell out of Crystal Lake.

Halfway down the road, a shot rang out. When Carly looks up, she notices that

Boone is decapitated and the bike tips over. Carly hurriedly gets off of the

bike and takes off into the woods to seek refuge, where she runs into the body

of Paul, knifed to a tree. After taking that knife and running through Varner's

house into the field nearby, Carly heads back to camp, where she climbs a tree

and attempts to foil the killer's plan. The killer emerges, looks right up at

her, but then leaves, totally missing her. She climbs back down the tree and

heads in the opposite direction, and runs into the white grave marker-- and

Albert's body.

After also finding Varner's body, Carly finds the same gray cardboard box that

the hunter found earlier-- and opens it. Inside is the severed head of Mrs.

Pamela Voorhees, still alive and staring right at her. After yelling obscenities

at Carly, Mrs. Voorhees gives her away by yelling for the hunter. With the

killer in hot pursuit and Mrs. Voorhees barking orders, how could Carly possibly

survive this horrible night?

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