Too often, we get the sense that a creative decision is being sacrificed for the chance to show off on a screen.

Even a quick glance at the film’s US TV trailer reveals that Starflight isn’t quite as realistic as I remember it. The hair’s bigger, the clothes baggier, the dialogue cheesier.

If we could boil Hollywood’s already-reductionist philosophy down to the kind of sexy, one-line treatment that loosens a producer’s chequebook, it would be: Let some other sucker innovate

The horror ante is then upped just that little bit further when our heroine has to retrieve a key from a very nasty twisted monster that has for some reason popped to the toilet