Todd Kane arrives on time for his job interview, but three candidates ahead of him and interviews scheduled in one minute intervals, in which the candidates never reemerge, lead Todd to believe that not all is what it seems.
Twenty years after the events of Nightmare Six: Freddy's Dead, a spirit who had killed children for so many years has been forgotten completely... So to continue collecting the fear he so needs he goes to the offspring of his daughter, mainly a troubled and weak-minded boy named Sam.