Jason Voorhees' Entire Backstory Explained

Jason manages to survive and recover from his injury, and Friday the 13th Part 3 picks up the day after Jason's killing spree at Camp Packanack. He makes his way to a general store and kills the two owners before stealing himself some new, less bloody clothes.

He then wanders the Crystal Lake area, finding yet another gathering of teens at a family-owned home called Higgins Haven. The owner, Chris Higgins, suffers from PTSD from a mysterious encounter she had with Jason years earlier in which she was attacked, only to wake up in her own room with no idea of how she got there.

Jason murders one of the group and steals his hockey mask, the accessory that has become his signature. Using the mask to hide his facial deformities, Jason proceeds to kill everyone but Chris. He chases her into a barn, where she manages to get a noose around his neck and hang him from the barn.

In order to free himself, Jason removes his mask, briefly revealing that he was the man who attacked Chris years ago. She battles her boogeyman, eventually burying an axe directly into his forehead, splitting his brand new mask in the process.

After a few hallucinations, the movie ends with police surrounding Jason's "dead" body the next morning. Unlike the machete to the shoulder, this wound was harder to shake off. However, despite it being fatal to any human being, Jason lives on.