I haven't seen the first three, but the group I took to the theatre with me had, and it was a unanimous decision, this movie "sucked". We could have stayed home and watched a couple of those videos of the pastorale scenes that lull you into a sense of serenity, and then ,"oh crap!' that ugly head scares the poop out of you and you want to strangle the jerk that sent it to you. it was almost decent until they decided to hurry up and finish the movie and put all the scary stuff bunched together at the end and be done with it. Wait for the dvd