Time jumps ahead five years and the land just next to Camp Crystal Lake is being opened as a training ground for camp counselors. Might as well call it Camp Jason Fodder. Before long the grounds are running rampant with young people and raging hormones. We also get to meet Crazy Ralph, the local doomsayer. All of these people go about their business, which seems to have very little to do with counselor training. The couples split off, the singles try to pair off, and Jason sits back and waits to make his presence felt.
Before Jason's bloody rampage can begin, we need to hear the story. The opening flashback sequence was simply not enough. In the five years since the events of the first film, the story of Jason has become campfire legend. The crazy girl in the lake (Alice) has inspired the growth of the story, not to mention the actual blood that was shed. The story is told around a fire and all in attendance are intrigued, if not terribly afraid. To this point, Jason's existence is a complete unknown.
Now, as the youngsters spread out into the night to take of business, Jason steps in, unhappy to have these interlopers on his land, and still harboring those bad feelings of his near-drowning and the death of his mother. He moves in and dispatches the boys and girls in a variety of creative ways. It is a joy to watch.
This movie, heck the series in general, serve no other purpose than to provide cheap thrills. There is nothing wrong with that. It is not particularly scary, but it is not without its tension. The characters are moderately interesting, and some of them you may even want to see live.
Jason makes his first appearance as a big time killer in this film, but sans hockey mask. As he goes around hacking and killing, he does so with a a sack over his head with a single eye hole. A big thing to note with this film, something younger fans may not know: Jason is very much a living person, he is not the unstoppable zombie he would become. In this movie you will see him run, stagger, scramble, and get hurt. He is sort of like a crazy redneck living in the woods. This is in stark contrast to what he would develop into later in the series.
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