40TH ANNIVERSARY! Five years after Freddy Krueger was defeated, teenager Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) and his family move into Nancy Thompson's former home. Discovering the diary of the young woman who stopped Krueger from returning from the dead, Jesse starts to experience nightmares which bare a similarity to those described by Nancy. Increasingly unable to discern between what is real and what is imagined, Jesse turns to his new high school friends to find a way to end his increasingly horrific nightmares.

A rapidly-produced follow-up to Wes Craven's original film, the film's homoerotic subtext has made A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE a cult curiosity for film fans.