^I'm assuming you didn't get the DVD, because if you did, you might have watched the one special feature it includes, "Freddy Krueger Reborn", and it fully explains why this one is different than the previous Krueger movies. It reaches out to that topic you brought up, and why his face is different and why his voice is different, and why they didn't want Robert to be the Krueger in this film, and all that shit.