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 I Know What You Did Last Summer (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1997 / Director: Jim Gillespie / Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, ... more  I Know What You Did Last Summer (DVD) ... Sarah Michelle Gellar ... / DVD released 21 May, 1999 at Entertainment in Video / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / Just what the world needs, another riff on that post-Psycho horror cliché: the slasher movie. In this version, which considerably dumbs down the Lois Duncan book, the bad guy chases naughty teenagers with a hook, all the while dressed as a dark version of the Gorton's fisherman. They seem to have killed someone in a car accident while out partying, and a price must be paid. Nothing new is added to the genre by I Know What You Did Last Summer, though it would be unfair not to note that this does have some scary moments. That is about all it has, because as much as this wanted to be another Scream, it hasn't the heart or the script. It does, however, have the requisite cast of small-screen stars (including Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt and Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar) to have snagged box-office success, spawning a sequel. --Rochelle O'GormanNewest Review: ... be very disappointed, there are few actual murders and the gore quotation is kept to a minimum, this production is more about ... more ... suspense and teeny bopper thrills than actual terror. Bless its heart I Know does try to keep you on the edge of your seat, with dancing shadows, typical ‘scary’ music and attractive ladies slowly turning around the corner where you just know the killer is but it really doesn’t ratchet that much tension, which can leave some of the scenes feeling very slow and tiresome. Another point against the film is the ridiculous killer, basically a man in a fishermen’s slick and hat, he says nothing, has no personality, lumbe...more |
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (DVD): If Your Going to Bury The Truth (1436 words)
by JayHall1991 - written on 11.03.06 (Very useful, 180 readings)
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On the magical night of their last day of High School, a group of four friends; Helen, Barry, Ray and Julie decide to spend a wild night drinking and driving. When suddenly out of nowhere a man steps on the road and is knocked down by the car, the young adults panic and decide to dump him in the nearest river, figuring that any evidence will be washed away. As they throw him in though, the injured man stirs into life, frightened and tired they watch him anyway, leaving the fisherman to drown. A year later on the days running up to the 4th of July, Julie gets a note simply stating ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ was someone else there that night? Who else could possibly ...
...and in every other slasher movie ever made (1430 words)
by wampyrii - written on 21.12.01 (Very useful, 183 readings)
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I wonder if screenwriter Kevin Williams had this sitting around in his bottom drawer when he started work on Scream. It seems strange that a writer would pen something like Scream which was a merciless parody of all that is ‘wrong’ or at least over-done in the slasher movie sub-genre and then a year later, following Scream’s $100million+ box office success, release a movie called I Know What You Did Last Summer which basically DOES all that he pointed out as being old-hat and cr*p! OK, so its an obvious cash-in having whet the appetite of a new generation of movie goers who hadn’t been slashered to death in the 80s, but you’d think that ...
I Know What You Did Last Summer (DVD): This film will not hook you (489 words)
by Ciaran - written on 01.10.01 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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I Know What You Did Last Summer was the first horror film written by Kevin Williamson after the success of the genre-redefining Scream (unless youre like me and Dawson's Creek gives you nightmares). The film is based on the book of the same name. I haven't read the book myself but I know someone who enjoyed it thoroughly and said that it was much better than the film it spawned, which is often the case when Hollywood starts running low on ideas and has to go through the days pop literature to continue raking in the dollars. Anyway, back to the film. The basic story is that four kids hit and kill a fisherman while celebrating the fourth ...
