Wes Craven reinvented the Nightmare On Elm Street series, Freddy Krueger, and horror when he took Freddy out of the movie world, and brought him into the real world with Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Taking place in our world, where Freddy only exists in the movies, the director and cast of the original A Nightmare On Elm Street are haunted with visions of the fictional character. At first it's passed off as just a series of coincidental dreams, but as the corpses start piling up, it's discovered that something has caused the knife-fingered killer to manifest in our reality.