How do you die inside a waterbed without raising any eyebrows? One of the victims in "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4" is first lured, then pulled into a waterbed and drowns.

I can excuse it when the teen looks at his waterbed, sees a woman in there, and doesn't react like this is an abnormal occurrence, because in dreams, we accept what happens without questioning it. But after the deadly dream is over, when the kid ends up drowned inside the waterbed, why isn't anybody confused about how he got there? You'd think an event like that would make headline news, at least in the local town. But maybe by now they're so used to weird teen deaths, they're simply too tired of being affected by them.

To a lesser extent, the same criticism applies to another victim, who is burned alive in her bed. This movie is so preoccupied with showing deaths that it has no time between killings to show scenes in which the characters try to figure out what's going on. That's a lot of what made the original movie so enticing -- it wasn't the blood and gruesomeness of it all. "Nightmare 4" doesn't understand that. It skips from death to death, from supernatural dreamlike occurrence to supernatural dreamlike occurrence.

Worse, Freddy has the worst one-liners imaginable. Arnold Schwarzenegger might just as well have played Freddy. In the original -- and to a much lesser extent, in the second and third episodes -- Freddy was a pretty horrific creature any sane person would be afraid of. Here, he's a buffoon, winking at his fans between wisecracks and bowing to their applause between killings. There's no tension, and, consequently, no good reason to see this movie.

Turkey rating: 1.5 turkeys.