The New Nightmare version of Freddy is less of a caricature than the 'fictional' one. No wise-cracking. He's all business. He's a little bulkier, more shadowy. He kills quickly and violently, without preamble, or else orchestrates his violent agenda, in trademark fashion, without virtue of physical presence. He's a kind of protoype version never intended for human production. Heather is eventually drawn into Freddy's demonic lair, the labyrinthine boiler room, also an aggrandized version of itself, and she proves that she's hasn't lost her touch. Freddy is apparently defeated again, but, being Freddy, there's always some loophole.