High school students at one of Springwood's schools are haunted by the same nightmare in which they are chased and cut into pieces by a disfigured man in a hat and with sharp blades on his glove. And the one who was killed in a dream dies in reality... It turns out that many years ago, the hero of the dream, Freddy Krueger, was a maniac who committed several brutal murders of children. Their parents, without waiting for a trial, lynched Freddie, burning him alive in the boiler room. And now Freddy has come to take revenge...