One of the survivors of the first movie, a girl named Courtney, suffers from nightmares and visions of gruesome murder scenes that happened at that party. She dreams of a killer with a drill, a leather-clad rock musician with a drill bit on the fingerboard of his red guitar. During a weekend road trip with her boyfriend, a member of the school rock band, her nightmares become even more terrifying. Courtney's friends think she's lost her mind, but they can't imagine that her nightmares will soon become reality when they discover that the drill killer is back....