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January 2027: Wayne Gretzky visits the site of his future resort property for retired athletes with girlfriend Christine Higgins, who is visibly uncomfortable during the ride to the location.

Upon arriving, Wayne decides to check out the large lake on the property, which has frozen over. Wayne comes across an old hockey net tangled in the brush, but upright. Upon walking further down and returning, he sees a man [Jason] in a hockey mask and initiates a non-verbal hockey game. After commending his new unnamed friend’s skill as a goalie, Wayne points to the top of the hill and states his resort will be built where an old campground once stood. When he turns back, Jason is gone.

While he is away, Chris Higgins is shocked by a group of three men knocking on their newly updated cabin, placed a ways away from the original camp site — Jeff, Michael, and Darren, three hockey players close to retiring who are huge fans of Wayne and interested in partnering in the resort. They inform her that a famous figure skating family, the Malenskis, were reported to be traveling from Russia to investigate the new resort property. Chris feels tentatively hopeful that they have left the violent past of Crystal Lake behind.

Helpful park ranger (played by Susan Sarandon) comes upon Wayne walking the property and informs him to his shock the town is empty and his resort is their only hope to regain the respect of CRYSTAL LAKE. Wayne realizes that the men who sold him the resort have conned him.

The Malenski family arrives, acting on a badly translated ad placed by the conmen, and are surprised by the potential of the land and large frozen lake. Finding a newly cleared sheet of ice that was previously covered in snow when Wayne visited earlier, the family begins practicing playfully, with Anya recklessly attempting her goal of landing a quadruple axel. Her family is amazed as she nearly lands for the first time but falls out early and lands unharmed. Her father skates over to congratulate her as her mother stares off into the distance, startled by what looked like a man in an old dirty hockey mask watching the family from the woods. From where he was standing clearly between two trees, he has now vanished the instant Anya fell. Brushed off by her father, Anya attempts more tricks, wobbling on a new injury that is hidden by the dulling cold air. She falls again, this time crashing into the hockey goal and cracks the ice, and is shocked when she sees a man staring up at her from under the crack in the ice. She screams, and her parents reach her just as an icy hand slips back under the surface of the crack and disappears, unseen by the adults.

Back at the cabins, the three hockey players unload their luggage and discuss what brought them there — Jeff is excited about the prospect of making a lot of money off of a resort which is already going viral on the internet as a true crime haven, versus the retired athletic community that has been envisioned. Jeff wants to partner officially with Wayne after a highly successful career, while the other men are more interested in simple investment. Darren is still nursing a career-ending knee injury, while the two men tease Michael that his poor decision making is what resulted in him being benched for most of the last season, resulting in his early retirement. Sulking back to his room, Michael pulls out a photo of his father congratulating his uncle who is dressed in a hockey jersey and holding a medal and a hockey mask tilted back over his head, revealed to be Shelly Finklestein. It is inferred by the audience that Michael had been playing hockey due to his uncle, who was murdered on the very site 45 years earlier.

Chris, now left alone with her true intention of scoping out the location for Jason, heads to the cabins where the men described staying. Just beyond an overgrown thicket of trees stand the original cabins, broken down and clearly abandoned but somehow still standing, despite promises that all original structures had been destroyed or had been reclaimed by nature. Determined, she enters the old cafeteria and makes her way up to an abandoned office, where she is horrified to find recently used, with an old, dirty hockey mask placed reverently in the only clearing of the room, atop a locked chest. Chris becomes inconsolable and sprints out back towards her cabin. Unbeknownst to her; she is watched from a distance by a shadowy figure.

Upon realizing the true location of his resort, Wayne becomes infuriated as he hurries up to the cabins to discuss what he has learned with Chris . He instead runs into Darren and Jeff, who excitedly approach him but are extremely put off as Wayne rudely disregards them and insults their willingness to get involved in his project. Darren shakes his head and chastises Jeff for not simply writing an email, while Jeff glares hard at Wayne’s rapidly disappearing figure.

Offering his help, Michael is able to assist Wayne with a suspicious knowledge of the layout of the grounds and leads Wayne into the arms of a panicking Chris. Upon recognizing her and hearing that Jason’s old gear had been discovered, a traumatized Michael panics and runs off before the couple can tell him everyone must leave the camp.

The Malenski family, infuriated and swearing loudly in a foreign language, come across the cabins where the three men are staying as Michael is attempting to explain what is happening. Darren and Michael attempt to help, as Jeff creepily eyes an extremely anxious looking Anya. The three cannot, despite having been on a team with several different languages being spoken at once, communicate with the family as both groups are visibly upset.

The Malenski family returns to the luxury cabin set up for them by someone working for the con men, with Yuri screaming into the phone that they did not sign up for this on this stupid trip to America, and that this will cause an international incident. Anya hurriedly attempts to pack her belongings, but is horrified to discover a man in a hockey mask hiding in her closet. She runs away, and Yuri chucks the phone down to find the closet empty and Anya and Irina terrified. Upon returning to the phone, he finds he has destroyed it. Infuriated, he pulls the blade guard off his ice skate and stomps down on the phone, breaking it clean in half.

Park ranger Susan Sarandon comes across a chaotic scene as all three groups are attempting to leave the park in varying degrees of insistence and anger. Riding a magnificent white horse, Susan shoots into the air to regain control. She tells them that local kids have made a game out of scaring any tourists that visit the area by dressing in hockey masks and surprising guests. She assures them nothing is wrong, and chastises the men for believing in ghosts and losing their heads.

The blood leads back to the original campsites, where Darren is found with a knife sticking out of his leg. Michael tries to help him with the assistance of Anya, and Darren reassures him that he will be okay and to leave him as they search for the killer who took Jeff, joking that the masked madman who dragged him off at least stabbed his bad leg, leaving him with one uninjured leg. Anya questions Michael as to why they are worrying about Jeff at all, since she notes that he had made her uncomfortable in a way she couldn’t fully explain. When she asks Michael to share a photo with the group and he shares the photo from earlier that day, she notices that Jeff is wearing the same boots that the man in her closet had on. Stunned, she does not yet reveal this information but quietly returns to her mother and fathers’ cabin.

Now frustrated that they have lost the group, Michael and Chris attempt to gather Darren only to find a pool of blood where he once was. Breaking down, Michael reveals to Chris that his uncle was killed by Jason, and that he never believed that the danger had left Crystal Lake. When his friends showed interest in the resort, he secretly chose to come in an attempt to dissuade them. With his friends missing, he blames himself.

Wayne has an embarrassing breakdown in the cabin mirror, revealing to the audience that he is in fact broke and desperate, and was counting on this deal to NOT be too good to be true. He punches the mirror, shattering it, and as he is cursing himself and staunching the wound, a man in a hockey mask appears behind him in the remaining shards of mirror. A fight ensues, with Wayne having to grip a shard of glass to prevent the man from stabbing him, destroying his grip but stabbing the man in the stomach. He is shocked to hear a younger man’s strangled groan, and passes out from blood loss as the man runs out the back door as Chris and Susan Sarandon burst inside and give chase. Susan seems wildly unnerved and lets two shots off into the dark, hitting something once. She mutters “that’s not…” before disappearing into the woods alone in pursuit.

Anya and Michael hear screams from the lake, where Darren has been pulled down by a “crazed Jeff” who says he needs him for a master plan. The Malenskis quickly arrive at the lake, with Irina on skiis. She quickly ties Darren’s leg to a ski and helps him down the mountain, even though they cannot communicate. Jeff is caught off guard when he sees the real Jason standing in the hockey net, and follows him as Yuri engages in pursuit. Jason disappears beneath a crack in the ice as Yuri sneaks up on Jeff, knocking him over and stomping on his arm, severing it. The real Jason reclaims Jeff under the water and the families sit in shock before the real Jason emerges from the icy water. His feet are frozen and formed into makeshift ice skates, which he uses to glide towards his new victims. Michael and Anya don their ice skates, with Michael unwedging a nearby sickle to use as a hockey stick. Wayne lumbers through the woods with Chris as the fight begins.

Yuri is quickly cast aside by Jason, hurting his back badly as he is thrown down onto the ice. Screaming for her father, Anya skates at top speed and to avoid Jason, perfectly lands a quadruple axel. Despite the chaos, Michael cannot help but cheer, visibly impressed by her talent after she downplayed her skills. Yuri lies silently, watching his daughter with pride. Michael skates behind Jason, but upon making eye contact with him, loses his courage and second guesses his move, getting ankle broken by Jason’s ice feet. He lands crumpled next to Yuri, who rises to his feet, wipes his bloody nose, and states in perfect english “Fuck this!” before engaging in his signature routine and slicing up Jason, however barely injuring him. He attempts to stomp Jason, who raises his ax and creates a huge fissure in the ice, separating him from the group and causing them to begin to sink into the water.

In an after-credits scene, Darren, dressed in plain clothes, is sleeping beside Michael’s hospital bed as machines beep around him. Anya walks through the door, smiling softly as she holds the keys to her new apartment in America, retiring after landing the most difficult trick ever known to man. The TV plays news of her parents winning gold in pairs figure skating for the Olympics after a heroic recovery after a botched trip to America and announces the entire famous family will be retiring. As Anya sits beside the hospital bed, Michael opens his eyes and smiles.