5. Hows this for a wet dream? Part 4 (1988)
Now that Freddy is a commercially popular icon, its time to really cash in on A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Hes hip, hes cool, and he inspires pop songs! At this point, hes basically unstoppable. You may remember Joey from Nightmare 3. He used to be the horny teenager who couldnt talk, but now hes just a horny teenager. While Joey is lounging on his waterbed watching MTV (super rad!), Freddy strikes by seducing him once again with a topless woman, only this time, shes in the water mattress. Before this bizarre sexual fantasy of a naked woman trapped in a sack of water reaches its full potential, Freddy strikes. He bursts out of the liquid mattress with blades a-blazing and asks Hows this for a wet dream? Presumably everything in the dream world is controlled by Freddy, which kind of makes his jokes feel a little contrived. Hes the one who put the attractive woman in the mattress to begin with, and what purpose does she serve beyond simply adding to Freddys illusion of cleverness. Why go through the trouble? Is his motivation to kill or to amuse, and if so, is he trying to amuse himself or his victim? Slowly, there is a picture forming of Freddy as the painful guy at the party who will do anything to make people laugh. Thats not to say hes not funny, but that is to say hes not scary.