Freddy Krueger, the exterminator of Elm Street, is reborn, in A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Pearl, 9.30pm), for another round of gory body counts and special effects.
The connecting thread between '4' and '5' is Dream Master Alice (Lisa Wilcox), who seemed to have Freddy well in hand in the previous finale. This time round she is pregnant by a soon-to-be-late boyfriend, and Freddy figures out he can do his dirty deeds through the foetus' dream state.
This nightmare instalment made few ripples when it was released more than a decade ago, except for winning a Razzie Award for worst original song, the tasteless Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter.
But Elm Street still has its enormous fan base. For years, they have been eagerly awaiting an encounter between Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, the monstrous murderer of that other cult horror series, Friday The 13th. Freddy vs Jason has been scheduled for production every year since 1997, including this spring.
In the meantime, the Friday The 13th team have got there first with their long awaited sequel, after a seven-year interval. Shooting was scheduled to start last week on Jason X, Friday The 13th Part 10.
The great thing for producers of horror movies is that their Freddies and Jasons can be killed off and returned to life as many times as they like, in the past, present or future. In the new Friday The 13th, Jason will wreak horror on a space station, 400 years into the future.
