The gory American slash fest epic goes on and on and on and the public never tires of it - it's a very standard formula when you suss it - gorgeous young American babe who is just that little bit different and that little bit lonely, vulnerable, that sort of thing, becomes the object of some weirdo with a fixation on dealing out death and destruction but only after scaring his helpless victim halfway to death and back over several weeks of high pressure stalking and several evenings of frighteningly provocative undress before the big, scary finale with plenty of screaming - Friday the 13th, Halloween, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Scream, they're all the same really, except some have got just that little bit extra style and wit with something just a touch distinctive, but usually by the time you get to Episode 6, 7 or 8, or VI, VII or VIII as they're inevitably daubed, all pretences to art have long since gone and it's just down to milking that lovely old formula for everything there is with most of these films just being loose and ill thought out vehicles for linking together some highly unlikely set pieces of terror where the vulnerable femme screams her tits off as the lights go out.

The Last Summer series is not really any better or worse than any of the others, even if it's pretty short on uniqueness or wit. It has a typical delivery boy of fear, courtesy of a guy in a mac and sou'wester and a natty line in the use of boathooks, who seems to relish hanging around in the dark and raising from the dead more times than Jason in F13.

As old Scaredshitless apes Gloria Gaynor and I Will Survive in classic Karaoke stylee, up flashes the 'I know what you did last Summer' blurb on the TV screen, which sends her nuts, although no one else spots the words - how unusual! You see FF is here and waiting for them (why is it all homicidal maniacs have an almost telepathic ability to work out exactly where their chosen victim's have disappeared to and how they will react at any given moment? Surely they could get more gainful employment by going on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? or Mastermind? Killing people may be fun, but it doesn't pay the bills when you marry a woman who likes a decent life, now do it? And where the hell did he get the plane fare?)

Cos that's the secret of these things, a bit of honest titillation, a bit of psychological pressure, problems at night and a bad guy wandering round unseen by anyone else, until in the end we all accept what cannot really be happening.