I have heard some pretty bad stuff about this film, but when i saw this for myself, i thought it was the best of the whole dang series.
First off, it seems that heather wants to live a normal life, but she's being stalked by a man that sounds a lot like freddy, her son is acting odd and now she has been asked to star in the " definitive nightmare". shortly after that her husband dies while almost falling asleep at the wheel. heather finds out that a demon taking the persona of freddy is trying to come out in the real world.
What really pisses me off is the fact that this movie made the least amount of money out of them all and most of the movies suck( especially FREDDYS DEAD which is probaly the reason for this films downfall).
i give this my total respect because wes craven can tell the best stories ever. but does this movie really need to be rated "R", its not even that violent and not that many profanitys to rate this "R". maybe the MPAA just rated this "R" because the others were. i don't know but wes craven, i salute you