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- When Heather hears about the plans for a new Freddy movie, she ask confusedly how that's possible, since they killed Freddy off. Wouldn't she be aware of horror movies always finding ways to bring the monster back in the sequels, no matter how "definitive" their death was in the previous movie or how contrived the method of resurrection is? Moreover, wouldn't she be more confused about how they would bring Nancy back, who was just a normal human and was pretty unquestionably dead after her previous appearance in the series?
- Considering what's going on in the fictional version of the real actress' life at the moment (and what was really going on in the nonfictional version of the real actress' life which was inspiration for the fictional variant) she's more stumbling with the idea that Freddy is yet again cropping up in her life, when she's trying to put all that behind her. Also, Freddy's Dead was very, very definitively intended to be the last Freddy film ever, they even had a funeral for the character! Plus all the stuff that went into the decision to end the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in the first place. Heather's less asking "how, mechanically, are you going to bring Freddy back from the dead yet again" and more "why, oh dear God why, would you want to?"
- Another thing is that I think she was more confused not that Freddy was coming back (that's a bit of a no-brainer), but the fact that her character of Nancy was killed in the third film with no way for her to come back. Yet, Heather is being asked to be involved in another Nightmare film.
- Freddy get shoved into an "oven" and then before he dies he turns into... the devil? Did I miss something where Freddy became a demon that only Ray Harryhausen could love?
- It's stated in New Nightmare that "Freddy" is a demon that has taken the form of the Freddy from the films and that the only way to prevent him from entering the "real world" (Well, the fictional version of the real world as portrayed in the film...don't ask.) is to keep making Elm Street movies.
- The monster/demon/creature/whatever has grown to like being Freddy, and it must be trapped in stories to keep it from wreaking havoc. So it needs a new Nightmare on Elm Street story to trap it. What we see when it is "killed" (actually trapped in the new Freddy story, which is the one we just watched) is either it's "true" face, or just one of many forms it can take. Point is, the Freddy Krueger in New Nightmare is not Freddy Krueger from the films, but the idea of Freddy.
