I Know What You Did Last Summer (DVD)

This was one of my favorite scary movies when I was younger. It definitely scared the crap out of me. Now, if I watched the movie today I would not be scared of the storyline, but when I was younger and less mature it was definitely a very scary story. The actors in this movie did a great job of playing their roles and they are still some of my favorite actors to this day. This story begins during the annual 4th of July party in a North Carolina fisherman's town, where Helen, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar is crowned in the towns beauty contest and runs off with her boyfriend Barry, played by Ryan Philippe, her best friend Julie, played by Jennifer Love ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Is it possible to make a horror movie with a complicated plot that is just TOO complicated, well yes, but hell that just makes for anticipation for the repeat viewing. This movie is complicated in that we all know who the killer is, he's the guy who the innocent teens ran over and dumped his body in the lake, but the complicated bit gets in explaining how he got there. And how this bloke who they ran over is in actual fact a killer himself, with a hook for a hand and taste for blood. Some of the humour is sick, dark and twisted, just how we like it. Written by the person who gave us Scream this is another must-see movie. Only 15 it should have been an 18. ...  Read the complete review