But Freddy's not real, Heather insists. Craven sits Heather down and says he thinks he knows what's going on. That entity has gotten used to the Freddy form, Craven explains. Now it wants out of the films, and into the waking world. When Heather asks how they can stop Freddy, Craven says the only way to capture that entity is through stories.
Stories can bind the evil and hold it, for a time, like a genie in a bottle.
Heather suddenly realizes what she has to do. She glances over at his computer, and sees on the screen a dialogue between herself and Craven the exact conversation they just had. So Heather goes to war with Freddy. When Dylan is hospitalized with a mysterious coma, Heather takes a deep breath and descends into Freddy's hellish nightmare kingdom to fight for the life of her son. The climactic battle between Heather and Freddy is, of course, quite gory.