Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Film and Plot Synopsis

A tranquil lakeside getaway takes a chilling turn when the notorious killer Jason Voorhees resurfaces. After a daring escape from a morgue, he leaves a trail of bodies behind and makes his way to Camp Crystal Lake, where a group of friends is enjoying their vacation. Among the teens, they cross paths with locals Tommy and Trish, as well as a mysterious hiker named Rob. As the teenagers indulge in wild, alcohol-fueled escapades, their group starts to shrink, and long-buried secrets from the past begin to surface.

‘Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter’ Movie Summary

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter picks up where Part 3-D leaves off. Police investigators are cleaning up the barn where Jason Voorhees’ body is laying on the floor, along with the ax that was slammed into his hockey mask and skull. The law enforcement officials and paramedics believe Jason is dead, so his body is transported to the morgue. Jason, for whatever reason, comes back to life and frees himself from his meat locker. And like the killing machine he is, Jason chops up former Police Academy alum, Axel Burns, with a hacksaw, before gutting horny nurse, Robbie Morgan, with a scalpel.

The next day, six horny teenagers make their way to a vacation house on Crystal Lake. Meathead Paul, drives his Weird Science loving girlfriend Sam, the naive virgin Sara, the preppy Doug, George “Please Don’t Call Me Dead F*ck” McFly, and Teddy Bear, aka “The Last American Virgin,” to the secluded hideaway.

After allowing a banana eating hitchhiker to be murdered by Jason, right next to Mrs. Vorhees’ grave, the teens arrives at their lake house. Their next door neighbors, Trish “Soap Opera Queen” Jarvis, her younger brother Tommy, their recently separated momma, Mrs. Jarvis, and the family dog, Gordon, are vacationing on the lake as well. When the teens walk their way down to the lake, they meet Doublemint twin sisters, Tina and Terri. The outgoing twins join these six strangers in the Camp Blood tradition of skinny dipping before being slaughtered by a homicidal maniac.

Trish, Tommy, and Gordon go for a drive, when their car breaks down, deep in the woods. The siblings have their car fixed by Rob Dier, a young man hiking through the woods, hunting for “bears.” Rob has the privilege of visiting the Jarvis house, where he is introduced to Mama Jarvis and Tommy’s robust collection of monster masks. Even though Trish and Rob have obvious lustful feelings for each other, Rob chooses to go camping in the Crystal Lake woods instead of hanging out with that creepy Tommy Jarvis any longer.
The six vacationers, along with the Doublemint Twins, have a party at their house. The smoking hot Sam gets pissed off at her clueless boyfriend, Paul, when he and Tina start slow dancing together. Sam decides to cool off by skinny dipping in Crystal Lake, but meets her unfortunate death when Jason impales Sam while she is laying butt naked in a raft. Shameful! Realizing he’s been acting like a douchebag, Paul decides to go looking for Sam. However, Jason, doing what is right, sends a harpoon straight into Paul’s groin, putting an end to his hormones…and life. Sick and tired of waiting around for her slutty twin sister, and being molested by a drunken Teddy Bear, Terri attempts to leave the party in a torrential rain storm. Jason has a disdain for party poopers and decides to stab Terri with a spear before she can leave the property.

Mama Jarvis returns home from a jog in the rain storm, only to learn their house has lost its power. Mrs. J is murdered by Jason off screen, for some unknown reason, while searching the house for her children. When Trish and Tommy come home, they realize Mama J hasn’t returned from her jog. Trish heads out to the jogging trail and stop at Rob’s campsite. A frightened Rob finds Trish rifling through his tent. Rob explains to Trish that he is searching for Jason Vorhees because the hockey mask wearing slayer murdered his sister, Sandra Dier, in the second flick. (Sandra was the bodacious girl who was killed with a spear while she was having sex with her boyfriend, Jeff.) Trish’s concern for her mother and Tommy now skyrockets, so she and Rob race back to the Jarvis house.

George McFly wins the lottery and has sex with the slutty twin, Tina, to prove he isn’t a dead f*ck. McFly follows up the tryst by going downstairs to brag about it to Teddy Bear. Jason finds the good corkscrew, uses it to pin George’s hand to the kitchen counter, then permanently places a meat cleaver into George’s face, ending his future. Reeling from her hot, passionate sex with George McFly, Tina is rewarded with Jason crashing through the bedroom window and tossing the Doublemint twin to her death from the second story of the house. Jason then goes downstairs and ruins Teddy Bear’s private time with a black and white stag film by stabbing Teddy in the head with a kitchen knife. Jason finishes off the group of horny teenagers when he returns upstairs to kill off Doug and Sara, after they have some hot, steamy sex in the shower.

After checking in on Tommy, Trish, Rob, and Gordon visit the adjacent vacation house and gradually find dead teenagers scattered throughout. Gordon, the smartest creature in the flick, jumps out the window and totally escapes this crazy situation. Rob tries to go one on one with Jason in the basement, ultimately losing the battle…and his life. Trish escapes back to her house, with a machete in hand. She and Tommy work tirelessly to keep Jason out of their house, but Jason doesn’t honor their wishes, breaks into the house, and tries to kill them. A very bold Trish tries to save Tommy by forcing Jason to chase her back to the other house. While Jason chases after Trish, Tommy decides to adapt a newspaper rendering of Jason by shaving his head and disguising himself to look like a mongoloid version of Jason from when he drowned in Crystal Lake as a child. Tommy immediately grabs Jason’s attention after Trish leads the killer back to their house. Jason looks at Tommy like he’s looking into a mirror and Trish takes the opportunity to whack off Jason’s hockey mask with a machete. Tommy then grabs the machete and strikes Jason in his skull, causing the Crystal Lake killer to fall on the floor, face first, and further splitting his head open. A severely traumatized Tommy sees Jason’s fingers twitching, so he grabs the machete and repeatedly hacks away at Jason’s body, screaming, “Die! Die! Die!”

In the near future, Tommy visits Trish in her hospital room, after she is debriefed by the local police. Tommy runs to his sister and gives her a tight hug. While the Jarvis kids embrace each other, we see a very disturbed Tommy break the fourth wall and look at the audience with an extremely evil look on his face, ending “The Final Chapter.”