Well, I can think of two things wrong with that tagline. Moving into the slashers, we see the bastard son of a 100 maniacs is up to his old tricks, but will this time really be the last?
It's been a full decade since the last film, and Springwood is a wreck. There's grand total one teenager left alive in the whole town. John Doe (Shon Greenblatt) has been having some bad dreams too, mostly where he's falling...from an airplane. He wakes up just outside the city limits and runs off, although Freddy (Robert Englund) seems to be taking this rather well.
Picked up by the police and put in a group home, John is assigned to Dr. Maggie Burroughs (Lisa Zane) and Doc (Yaphet Kotto). There are other patients too:
Tracey (Lezlie Deane): she's tough, but growing up with a pervy father can do that
Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan): Deaf thanks to his mother and her improper use of a cotton swab
Spencer (Breckin Meyer): The Stoner, plus a video game fan with an overbearing dad
When Maggie reads some newspaper clippings from John's pocket about Springwood, she figures a road trip is in order. The other 3 kids tag along, and that's when they encounter the true terror of Springwood...namely a cameo by Rosanne and Tom Arnold.
Finding they can't leave the city no matter what, they decide to bunk down in a familiar looking house on Elm Street. John and Maggie head over to the local orphanage and discover that the Kruger family had a child.
Spencer and Carlos both fall asleep and die in probably the most cartoonish way possible. John bites it next, in a way that wouldn't seem out of place in an old Loony Toons short, but before he passes on, he reveals he isn't the son of Freddy. No, it seems Freddy's offspring is a girl...
Points for trying, but when they just end up rehashing old lot points (Freddy needs new victims, there's a home for trouble youth run a dream researching doctor, etc.), plus the reveal that Freddy is actually powered by dream demons just drains a lot of mystery from the film. It almost veers right into comedy at several points, especially the aforementioned death scenes. Had this been the actual end though, it might have been one of the oddest notes to out on in film history.
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