Fred Krueger is a more dark and sinister being that keeps the jokes to a minimum. He still has some humor, but he mainly scares his victims-to-be. In life, he was the care taker of a small pre-school who loved to play with the children. When some children began to talk of him doing horrible things to them in the school basement, the parents were enraged. They formed a lynch mob and went to after him. He had fled the school and the parents eventually caught up with him, chasing him down to an abandoned factory and burning him alive. He tries to get the former children, now teens, to remember him by haunting them in their sleep. Once they are their weakest, he kills them as they drift off to sleep. When Cigaret and Quentin Smith are the only Elm Street kids left, they begin to do research to figure out who this evil dream man really is. They find the abandoned, run-down pre-school and the hidden "cave" which was a crawl space. It was where Fred would take the children and do awful things to them. Nancy found pictures of herself as a child in the hidden room.
Though it was never blatantly stated in the original movie series, Freddy is officially declared a child molester in this retelling. Nancy and Quentin decide to pull Freddy out of the dream realm in order to kill him once and for all. Nancy slices Freddy's neck after a struggle and it presumably kills him. She then sets the basement of the school on fire and gets out with Quentin. Later on, the firefighters say that there was no sign of a body. Nancy and her mother are back at home, but Freddy jumps out of the mirror impaling the mother with his glove and pulling her back through to his realm.