Four years after the ill-received Manhatten venture, original Friday creator Sean S. Cunningham teamed up with New Line Cinema to resurrect and ultimately put an end to the seemingly immortal Jason Voorhees.

The film opens with a tradition Camp Crystal Lake scene in which a scantically-clad young women arrives at an isolated cabin deep in the woods. She soon encounters Jason and lewers him out of the cabin and on a chase. This potential victim has a surprise, though. As she reaches a clearing, she falls to the ground, whips out a pistol and fires into Jason's skull.

Though this isn't enough to stop the masked maruader in his tracks, a band of spotlights snap on around him and a squad of FBI agents and SWAT team personel open fire with machine guns and other weaponry. Jason is riddled with hundreds of bullets before a mortar is sent rocketing to his feet and blows him into blackened, bloody pieces.

His mutilated corpse is taken to a federal morgue where his spirit enters into a new vessel and begins to kill once again while searching for the key to his survival. Enter Creighton Duke (Steven Williams), a bounty hunter of mass murderers and seriel killers, who has set out to destroy Jason and claims to know how to do the job once and for all.

The film comes to a boiling climax in the rundown Voorhees house where Jason is ultimately done in with a mystical dagger that sends him down to the fiery depths of Hell. A cliffhanging final shot shows Freddy Kreugar's finger-knives pulling Jason's trademark hockey mask into Hell, setting up the much-anticapted duel between the two horror icons.