Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) was the only film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series to be directed by a woman: Rachel Talalay.
It is more light-hearted and humorous than some of the previous films, although it still contains disturbing imagery, because -- it's a horror movie.
Talalay made a deliberate decision to get away from all the birth and pregnancy imagery used in some of the earlier films (such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child).
A section of the film was originally screened in theatres in 3-D, but this effect does not appear in most video releases of the film. The 3-D gimmick was a request from the studio, which constrained Talalay's options as a director by adding many technical difficulties to the ending, which she had originally intended to have a much larger scale.
Summary
Freddy Krueger sends the only surviving teenager of the town of Springwood out into the world to bring him back new victims.
John Doe, who thought he was Freddy's son for most of the movie, dies. It turns out that Freddy had a daughter -- Maggie, the youth center's child psychologist. She enters the dream world and brings Freddy back to reality, where she kills him.