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Summary: It Blows
Review: This is so stupid it's ridiculous. I started thinking those kids actually wanted to die. You could hear those huge boots coming from a mile away, and yet they didn't seem to notice him until it was too late. The only entertainment was wondering how Jennifer Love Hewitt could breath in that painted-on shirt. I actually started laughing towards the end. It's a waste of time, don't watch it.
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Summary: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Review: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar star in this film that surprisingly is better than SCREAM. One year ago, four friends accidentally killed a man and threw him into the river and vowed to never mention the tragedy again. But someone now knows and is offing the friends one by one with his handy fishing hook and slicker to hide it in. Excellent performances, extremely suspenseful and scary scenes and a killer soundtrack make this a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Although dialogue towards the end may be a tad cheesy, the majority of this film had dialogue of pure intelligence and sense, making for all realism to burst through. It's all very well laid out, and the character development is nice and smooth. One of my favourite slasher flicks, this one might have gotten the overall plot of its story from the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis slasher, PROM NIGHT. Similarities between the two films do not affect the entertainment values of this incredibly wild roller coaster ride.
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Summary: wow
Review: Great cast and plot. Haven't we all read the book in junior high? Great remake into movie. You gotta admit Ryan and Freddie are some cute boys. Very entertaining and scary film.
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Summary: a very cool slasher JLH/FP Jr. flick!
Review: this movie rocks! J.Love is absolutley stunning. Freddie Prinze iz hotter than evrrr! Ryan Phillippee is macho"er" than ever! and Sarah Michele... makes the movie better when dhe DIES in the alley behind the stacks of tires (best part of the movie)
I.K.W.Y.D.L.S. is about four tightly-knit teens who hit a guy in the road and decide to cover up their flaw by dimping him in the water. one year later: Julie (JLH) returns home from college to visit for the summer, broken up with Ray (FP Jr.) who is now a fisherman. Helen (SMG) is working at her father's store whith her Broadway dreams never coming true, and is broken up with Barry, (Phillippe) who is determined to totally forget everything about last summer, which is what everyone is trying to do. all that changes when Julie gets a note saiyng '"I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER'" People start dying, and the aftermath equals to a big fun climax i know you'll love!
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Summary: Mediocre cinemafication of an already mediocre book
Review: Make no mistake: this is hardly a faithful adaptation of the novel by the same name. Not that that's an entirely bad thing, though... as a young teenager, I absolutely LOVED all of Lois Duncan's novels, with one or two exceptions... including _I Know What You Did Last Summer_. The storyline lacked the kind of intense, suspensful pace that made her other novels flow so well, and I just never connected with the characters.So, not exactly the kind of story you could make a deep, provocative movie with. Perhaps wisely, the screenwriters chose to make this a horror movie. But I honestly believe they could have done better. IKWYDLS is your typical teens-make-mistake-that-bites-them-in-the-arse slash-em-up horror flick. Hardly original, but you know, Hollywood is driven by money, and it's not like this film did all that terrible considering what it probably cost to make. Which isn't to say that they deserve any slack for making a bad movie, because that's more or less what this is: a bad movie. It's only worth sitting through if you're curious, and even then, you might be sorry. Aside from a completely unoriginal story and script, the acting, to say the least, leaves something to be desired. Jennifer Love Hewitt is unquestionably babely, and may be a sweetheart, but she's not a great actress, so the fact that she played the main character of Julie only makes it more difficult to connect to this movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar, on the other hand, is an AMAZING actress, but is unfortunately confined to a rather stereotypical supporting role (and, if you've seen enough horror movies, I don't think I have to tell you how her story arc goes). Don't feel too sorry for her, though; even if Gellar *had* ended up playing Julie, she probably couldn't have done much with the script and wouldn't have won a Blockbuster Award for her performance in this movie. Still... she deserves a lot better than what she gets. Bottom line, this movie walks the line between mediocre and bad. Granted, it didn't have much to go on, but it could have been better. See it at your own risk.
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Summary: another slasher movie
Review: It has the same premise as Scream did, a killer who slashes up teenage kids because they did something to the person. not that bad and not that better then Scream but it does have some surprising results, basically when Sarah Michelle Gellar gets hooked, I mean come on, I wanted Hewitt to get the hook(beep) her man, Gellar should of lived. highlight though would have to be Gellar in that bathing suit.
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Summary: Slasher fans are sure to get a kick out if here and there!
Review: In the early 1980's slasher films were all the rage. Everybody was making them. Well, in a true case of history repeating itself, the same thing happened in the late 90's and everybody wanted to make a slasher film. Based on the cult novel of the same name by Lois Duncan, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER was put on the fast track once writer Kevin Williamson landed gold with SCREAM. In I KNOW, a group of high school seniors, led by the ever so lovely Jennifer Love Hewitt, are celebrating their last days before they all ship out to different colleges. Well, as you might guess, one fatal mistake of hit and run changes all that. Although rather trite as of 2003 standards, I KNOW is one of the more remembered to come out of the 90's resurgence of teen slasher films. Packed with all kinds of "Stupid girl, why are you running that way" moments, and a sort of who cares whodunit plotline, something about I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER still really clicks. The film boasts some genuinely scary moments here and there and the cast (Hewitt, Anne Heche, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillipe, and Freddie Prinze, Jr. in the only role I've ever liked him in) really pulls off what needs to be done rather flawlessly. Though nothing here is very surprising and anyone who doesn't like slasher flicks going in probably won't change their minds after seeing this one, fans of the genre are almost sure to get a kick out of the movie at least here and there. C+
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Summary: I Would Compare It To Scream!
Review: 4 kids are out partying when they hit a man crossing the street!!! They don't know what to do so they throw the body in the ocean!!! 1 year later they all recieve a letter saying "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER."
Their big secret has come back to haunt them more than they expected!!! They all start to get preyed upon by a mysterious killer with a fish hook! One by One they are hunted down until the chilling end of it! This is real good one to watch with your girlfriend!
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Summary: the greatest teen slasher
Review: scary and freaky horror movie good plot great acting great scares very modern and original well to todays standards this plotsa been used alot this is the only one where it worked
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Summary: I Know What You Did REVIEW
Review: This is what horror movies have come to? Following his success as the screenwriter of "Scream", Kevin Williamson wrote the film adaption of Lois Duncan's best-selling book. The results are as corny and overwritten as an episode of Dawson's Creek. Well, what do you expect? Williamson was the creator of that very show. So get ready for two hours of fresh-faced teenage drama queens running from a cheesy guy in a trenchcoat. "I Know What You Did Last Summer" centers around four high school friends who after a night of romance and drinking end up running down a man and covering up. A year later, someone is sending them creepy letters. You've got Hewitt's girl next door type, Freddie Prinze as her quiet loner boyfriend, and Ryan Phillippe as the jerk who always wants to do the stupidest and most irrational things because it fits his character. Throw in Buffy The Vampire Slayer as the teenage beauty queen with no real opinion of her own and you have a formula for success. Williamson's dialouge is nothing but pure cheese. The moment the characters open their mouths, you immediatly want them to return to just standing there, acting pretty. The acting from the female leads is commendable but Freddie Prinze, in particular, takes lack of charisma to a new low. The story itself is so nonsensical, it's almost humorous. It plays like an anti-drinking and driving video mixed with a Hardy Boys mystery. Where "Scream" could be forgiven for being obnoxiously witty and overwritten as it was disecting the genre, this movie is just awful. Many of the character's motives don't make a lick of sense. Bridgette Wilson as the snotty older sister is pointlessly cruel without any real reason. Of course, she gets what is coming to her in predictable horror movie fashion. The first of many films inspired by "Scream", this one also had an even more terrible sequel. The idea of putting attractive stars from WB dramas in horror movies continued with such greats as "Urban Legend" and "Valentine". Hollywood sure knows how to beat a decent idea to death.
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