Final Nightmare - Plot

Plot

In 1999, ten years have passed since the fifth film; Freddy Krueger had failed to attack Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) and her son Jacob as they have moved away from Springwood, and it states that through a series of mysterious suicides and murders every child in Springwood, Ohio has died. It indicates there is evidence of another teenager; the film opens with the teenager on an airplane, but he falls through the plane before it can leave Springwood and after he escapes his house, which is directly across from 1428 Elm Street, he tries to flee on foot. Freddy tracks him down and ejects the boy from Springwood by sending him through the border. As Freddy cannot cross the city line, the opening seals itself when Freddy touches it. He tells him "Now Be A good little doggy, and go fetch!"

The teenager wakes up without his memories of who he is or where he comes from, and finds a newsletter clipping of a missing woman named Loretta Krueger in his pocket. He walks to the next city and is eventually picked up by police and taken to a youth shelter, given the name John Doe by Maggie Burroughs, who becomes his care giver. Her other charges are introduced, Carlos, who was abused by his family, ending up with a hearing impairment, Tracy, a tough and angry girl who was raped in her youth by her father, and Spencer, whose rich lifestyle and overbearing father had driven him to drugs. Doc, a therapist at the shelter specializing in dream therapy suggests that Maggie try to help John discover who he is and that might help her with her own recurring nightmares of a little girl and a woman being murdered. John begins having strange nightmares of the same little girl and of his "memory" trying to get him to free it. Seeing that the newsletter clipping is from Springwood, Maggie suggests they go to Springwood to help him regain his memories. They take the van, but John has a hallucination of the little girl telling him to "go back" and the panic reveals that Tracy, Carlos and Spencer also stowed away in the van hoping to escape the shelter. They arrive in Springwood where the adult population for the greater part has lost their minds and are both fearful and coveting of the new children who have come to town. Unable to contact the shelter, Maggie sends the three teens back while she and John decide to investigate the school. However, an unseen force keeps sending them in circles and they are unable to leave Springwood. They eventually walk down an abandoned street and break into a house, which quickly changes its exterior to reveal that it's 1428 Elm Street, Freddy's old house.

Maggie and John go to the high school, where they learn that the town's psychosis was caused from the deaths of every child in Springwood. They find a memoir of the original child victims of Freddy, as well as where the newsletter clipping came from. They also learn Freddy had a child that was taken away when he was arrested. They go to the orphanage where the matron is playing "Skip to My Lou" with imaginary children. She claims to recognize John and Maggie, and John believes he is Freddy's son because he has not been harmed but Maggie finds this lead unreliable. Unable to get any new clues, except that Freddy's child's first initial was 'K', they leave. Meanwhile, Carlos falls asleep and encounters Freddy who magnifies his hearing aid, then uses his claws on a chalkboard to make Carlos' head explode from the noise, in reality his body vanishes. Tracy leaves the house while Spencer lays stoned in front of the television. She gathers Maggie and John, and they return, but not before Spencer is pulled into a video game where images of his father and Freddy are the antagonists. His body zooming around the house like he's in a video game. Tracy and John enter the nightmare to save him, but they are too late when Freddy knocks Spencer into a pit that Maggie witnesses. She is able to wake Tracy, but John is too far gone and they try to escape. However in John's dream he is in a parachute and Freddy appears. Freddy tells John that his child was in fact a daughter and he was simply using John to bring her back to him. Freddy destroys the parachute and John is impaled by bed spikes. On his dying breath, he relays what he has learned to Maggie. Freddy absorbs John's soul and enters Maggie's mind, now able to travel where she goes.

At the shelter, no one remembers Spencer, John or Carlos including Maggie's boss. But Doc is able to remember them because he can control his dreams and is free of Freddy's influence. Doc tells Maggie that Freddy has erased Spencer, John and Carlos from the plane of reality and thus no one remembers their existence. Maggie remembers what John said about Krueger's child not being a boy and finds adoption papers at her mother's house. She has another dream in which she witnesses Freddy Krueger kill his wife in front of Maggie's eyes after she discovered the evidence of his child killings. Freddy reveals her name is Katherine Krueger and that she told the authorities he killed her mother, resulting in his arrest and her being put up for adoption. Freddy reveals the true purpose for his killing spree: to get revenge against the people who took his daughter away from him by killing their children. But now that they're all dead he can start over, because "Every town has an Elm Street!" showing the shelter as his intended "playground." Before waking her from the dream. Meanwhile Tracy is attacked by a nightmare of her father who becomes Freddy and she is able to wake herself by burning her wrists over the stove. They go to Doc, who was also encountered by Freddy. Doc launched an attack on Freddy and beat him badly with the base-ball bat, but he is unharmed. Freddy further told Doc that people tried to kill him by different ways but the Dream Demons, who gave him powers over dreams, also promised him the longevity by saying "In dreams...I am forever..." Doc cuts a piece of Freddy's sweater and returns back to the real world by his machine, thus discovering that if he could bring a piece of Freddy's shirt out of the nightmare then that would be the exact way how they must kill him. Maggie enters a dream state and puts on a pair of 3-D glasses that serve as the climax of the film to the audience in the 3D version of the film. She steps into Freddy's past, revealing his childhood which he displayed the signs of psychosis, killing small animals and being taunted by children. Then him as a teenager in which he learned how to control his pain, using it to kill his abusive stepfather. Then seeing Freddy (now an adult) murdering his wife right in front of his daughter when she was about five-years-old, and eventually discovering the Dream Demons who granted him immortality as he was killed by vigilantes. Freddy appears and implies that he plans to kill her for "telling". Enraged by what he has done, Maggie strikes him and manages to hold onto him as she brings him out of the dream world, but he disappears when she wakes up.

They manage to track Freddy (looking like he did before he was burned alive, but still wearing his usual clothes) down in the storage room. He tries to reason with her that it wasn't his fault for turning into what he is and that he loved her. She rejects him and knocks his glove off his hand. Freddy traps Maggie in the storage cage with him where hand-to-hand combat ensues between father and daughter. Freddy tries to kill his own daughter, but she proves to be a perfect match against him. They have a confrontation over possession of the glove, which Freddy seems to have won despite being injured. Maggie uses several confiscated weapons against Freddy and eventually disarms him into dropping the glove. Freddy encourages her to wear the glove and let him teach her how to use it, but she uses the glove to stab him in the abdomen. Tracy tosses Maggie a pipe bomb which she jabs into his chest and says "Happy Father's Day" before escaping the resulting explosion. Blown to bits in the real world and Before he can Exploded Freddy Said "Kids". the dream demons are unable to resurrect Freddy once more (meaning that he's really dead for good) and escape. The 3D glasses that Maggie put on appear, then she says "Freddy's Dead" and the credits roll as a montage of clips from the previous films roll.