Realizing there was a fresh market for a style of movie that studios had written off as niche material, Scream’s gonzo profits ushered in a wave of subsequent slashers trying to capitalize on a new generation’s discovery of the subgenre, as Gen Xers and Gen Yers alike learned (or re-learned) the fundamental pleasures of a good old-fashioned murder spree by a crazed killer, supernatural or otherwise.

The students enjoy a number of extracurricular activities at weekends.

Yet none of this achieving ever overcame my shy sense of inadequacy in not being the son our four-daughtered family needed

a sweetish, caramellike flavour