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Two months after the events of the original, Alice, the sole survivor of the Camp Crystal Lake massacre, is trying to pick up the pieces of her life. But when she opens the refrigerator door to find Mrs. Voorhees’ severed head, an unseen assailant stabs her through the temple with an icepick.

Five years later, Paul Holt opens a Counselor Training Center at Packanack Lodge, adjacent to the now-defunct Camp Crystal Lake. Crazy Ralph again tries to warn of the coming danger, but is again ignored. Around the campfire, the counselors are told to ignore the local lore that Jason Voorhees, whose mother was responsible for the earlier murder spree, is alive. Crazy Ralph watches Paul and Ginny in her cabin, and is strangled with barbed wire by the killer.

The next day, two of the counselors, Sandra and Jeff, slip away to the off-limits Camp Crystal Lake and are caught and escorted back to the Center by a police officer. On the way out, a figure darts in front of the officer’s car and into Camp Crystal Lake. In pursuit, the officer discovers a ramshackle cabin and is killed with a hammer to the back of the head.

That evening, most of the counselors go to a local bar, leaving six behind – Sandra and Jeff, Scott and Terry and Vickie and Mark. Scott spies on the skinny-dipping Terry, but when he tries to get away with her clothes he’s caught in a rope trap. Terry leaves to get a knife, only to discover Scott’s throat has been slit before her return. Terry runs back to camp, only to be killed herself.

Back at the bar, Paul, Ginny and Ted discuss the legend of Jason Voorhees and what he would be like if still alive. Ginny guesses he would have seen his mother decapitated by Alice, and that seeing the only person who had ever loved him killed would leave an indelible mark.

When Vickie leaves the wheelchair-bound Mark is killed with a machete. Sandra and Jeff are impaled together with a spear while having sex, and the killer — now revealed as the bag-wearing Jason Voorhees — murders Vickie as well.

Paul and Ginny return to the camp, and after finding the lodge empty, Paul is attacked by Jason. Ginny flees through the woods, finally coming to Jason’s shack, now filled with the bodies of the dead counselors. Seeing Mrs. Voorhees’ severed head and sweater on Jason’s makeshift altar, Ginny puts on the sweater and readies herself for the final confrontation.

On Friday, June 13th of 1958, two Camp Crystal Lake counselors, Claudette and Barry, slip away from the campfire for an illicit rendezvous. They are discovered and murdered by an unseen assailant.

Two decades later, the camp is preparing to reopen. The town loony, Crazy Ralph, warns camp cook Annie that “Camp Blood” has a death curse, but Annie continues to hitch her way to camp. Local truck driver Enos tells her the camp lore: the murders in ’58, a boy drowning in ’57, the fires and bad water that thwarted attempts to reopen the camp. Annie then catches a ride with the wrong person, who chases her through the woods and slits her throat.

At Camp Crystal Lake, Steve Christy is eager for his counselors Marcie, Jack, Ned, Brenda, Bill and Alice to begin their preparations to open the camp. After they get underway, Steve leaves for an urgent errand in town. The counselors work for a while longer, then break for some swimming. After a drowning scare, a snake in a cabin and visits from both the law and Crazy Ralph, Ned goes to investigate a noise in one of the cabins, and doesn’t come out. . .

A storm begins, and Marcie and Jack seek shelter in the same cabin, where they make love in a bunk bed. Meanwhile, Brenda, Bill and Alice amuse themselves with a rousing game of strip Monopoly. When Marcie leaves for the restroom, Ned’s body, hidden on the top bunk, drips blood onto Jack’s face. Jack is then stabbed through the neck with an arrow, and the killer leaves for the camp restroom. Marcie goes to investigate a sound in the showers and the killer splits her face open with a vicious axe swing.

The door blows open in the main cabin, interrupting Brenda, Bill and Alice’s game. Brenda leaves to close the windows in her cabin. In town, Steve finishes his meal in the local diner and starts back for camp. From her cabin, Brenda hears a child crying in the woods and braves the storm. As she slogs through the driving the rain, the archery range is suddenly illuminated, with Brenda standing in front of the targets. . .

Alice thinks she hears a scream, and she and Bill go to investigate. On Brenda’s pillow they find a bloody axe. The phones are out and the truck won’t start, so they decide to go back to the main cabin to get out of the rain. In the meantime, Steve’s Jeep has slid off the road. A passing police car gives him a ride part of the way, and he walks the rest – only to encounter the killer, who Steve recognizes before he is stabbed in the stomach.

Back at camp the power goes out, and Bill goes to check the generator while Alice takes a nap. When she awakes she goes to look for Bill in the generator shed, but instead discovers his body mounted on the door, riddled with arrows. She returns to the main cabin and seals herself in, only to have Brenda’s corpse thrown through the window. She flees, and runs into Pamela Voorhees, an “old friend of the Christys.”

Alice is left alone against Pamela, whose son Jason drowned at Camp Crystal Lake in 1957. Now all the counselors of the camp must die, and it is one or the other in a match to the death. . . who will survive the long night at Camp Blood?