The Final Girl Returns

Max waits as Amanda auditions for Camp Bloodbath. Amanda complains she will always be known as scream queen Nancy. The ride home ends in tragedy when a car crash kills Amanda. Max is left to cope with the loss.

Three years after Amanda's death, Max is studying with her friends Gertie and Chris to stay focused. Duncan arrives, a horror-film fanatic, and joins the plan to process their grief. He persuades Max to attend a special double feature of Camp Bloodbath 1 and 2.

Duncan convinces Max to go to the double feature, promising a cathartic encounter with the horror that defined her mother's career. He frames it as fate, inviting her to relive the Camp Bloodbath legacy. The plan is set for the evening at the local theater.

During the screening, Max spots Vicki, Chris's possessive ex-girlfriend and her former best friend. The theater suddenly catches fire, trapping the audience inside. They cut a hole in the screen and tumble into the world of Camp Bloodbath.

Max, Chris, Gertie, Duncan, and Vicki wake up in the woods after escaping the theater blaze. A van filled with Camp Bloodbath characters asks for directions, then vanishes and reappears every 92 minutes. The group realizes they are trapped in a looping version of the film and must adapt.

The group hitchhikes into camp, posing as new counselors. They let the first couple of murders occur without interference, wary of altering the story. Billy Murphy spots them but merely stares, confirming they aren’t ordinary movie characters.

The counselors learn Billy’s urban legend is real and he appears whenever anyone has sex. Chris distracts Kurt while Max nudges Nancy to maintain virginity, hoping to force a different outcome. Vicki sticks with Paula and Gertie bonds with Blake as fear rises.

Kurt and Paula drive off, but Duncan reappears alive; a car hits him and he crashes into a totem pole, killing Kurt, Paula, and Duncan.

Max and the group decide to actively save survivors from the original film. Tina is dressed in a life jacket and mittens to prevent her undressing, and Max is positioned as the new Final Girl with Billy’s machete as the weapon to end him.

Tina performs a striptease to lure Billy, but a tripwire bear trap kills her. Blake, Vicki and Gertie die defending themselves and Billy hunts the others. Chris, Nancy, and Max flee the cabin, but Billy chases them.

Billy kidnaps Nancy after stabbing Chris. Max tracks them to Billy’s barn hideout and the two fight their way toward a chapel. The pursuit escalates as Chris arrives wounded, and Max refines her plan.

In the chapel, Nancy reveals the truth about Max’s real mother and sacrifices herself to empower Max. She lures Billy with a final striptease and is killed. Max awakens with the Final Girl power and prepares to face Billy.

Max decapitates Billy with his own machete as Chris arrives and the two share a kiss after the fight. Max then wakes in a hospital with her friends and realizes the world has shifted into Camp Bloodbath 2: Cruel Summer when Billy Murphy's tune fills the room and the title appears.