I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave, and he's looking for more than an apology. (Sony)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Jim Gillespie
Written By: Kevin Williamson, Lois Duncan
Starring: Anne Heche, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Johnny Galecki, Muse Watson, Bridgette Wilson, J. Don Ferguson, Stuart Greer, Deborah Hobart, Mary McMillan
Genres: Suspense/Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Franchise: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Country: USA
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I Know What You Did Last Summer belongs to 23 collections
1. Based on a Book (public: moderated by iconogassed - 19 stars)
2. Slasher (public: moderated by Moribunny - 16 stars)
3. Directorial debut (public: moderated by djross - 16 stars)
4. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
5. #1 at the US Box Office (public: moderated by BeeDub - 10 stars)
6. Based On Novel (public: moderated by tathiel - 7 stars)
7. Horror Franchises (public: moderated by mattburgess - 7 stars)
8. Film Titles That Are Complete Sentences (public: moderated by Maaxwell - 7 stars)
9. Young Adult novel adaptation (public: moderated by nauru - 3 stars)
10. 90s teen films (public: moderated by mattburgess - 2 stars)
11. Cinema Sins (public: moderated by Phantom Nook - 2 stars)
12. multiple endings (public: moderated by Daria - 1 star)
13. Summer (public: moderated by Midaso - 1 star)
14. Dead Meat: Kill Count (public: moderated by delollio)
15. Top 3000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (private: fanfic - 5 stars)
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| 4 |  |
Magb | 25 5% |
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I don't care what you know. You've been a bad movie. Go sit in the corner.
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saudade | 55 72% |
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These fishnet stalkings will scare the boobs right out of your crop top!
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TimeCapsule | 57 47% |
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While many think of this movie as the "Friday the 13th"(1980) to "Scream"(1996)'s "Halloween"(1978), however it's really more like "The Prowler"(1981) to "Scream"'s "Friday the 13th". Where "Scream" toys with slasher/horror movie tropes, "I Know What You Did Last Summer"(1997) embraces them to make a throwback classic 80 slasher, just updated with a 90's horror aesthetic. While that now may mean a lack of nudity/gore, the movie still makes an effort to showcase Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage.
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Jasongirl67 | 50 31% |
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To quote the movie ; " I know what you did last summer ooh what a crock of SH!T " !
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Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter) | 55 54% |
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For all its flaws, (and there are certainly more than a few), I still quite enjoyed this film. For a slasher film to rely almost solely on atmosphere building without turning to excessive gore or nudity, I have to commend it. Not only that, but there was some character development that allowed the audience to care about some of the soon-to-be victims. It's not a perfect movie, but it's a fun slasher film that is restrained in its approach. For that, more than anything, I liked it.
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Kojiless | 10 11% |
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No one knows what I did last summer, and they never will.
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CCLZA | 45 17% |
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I re-saw it lately and I enjoyed it more than ever. It's so bad and full of cliches that it's acutally pretty enjoyable and entertaining.
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Paxton | 38 8% |
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It's like a who's who of people I'd love to forget.
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Harmonica | 45 10% |
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I Know That You Didn't Understand Scream Last Summer. Kind of a curious early entry into the 90s teen slasher revival cycle. Its attractive cast of characters seem savvy to the idea that they are part of a murder narrative that has some rules, if only they can figure them out. Unfortunately, neither they nor the writer and director have any clue how Scream advanced the horror genre, so they just end up getting butchered in traditional plodding fashion. No thrills, risible killer, terrible climax
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grimsooth | 21 6% |
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While one must respect the power of Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts, they don't quite make this film watchable.
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Anomaly | 24 6% |
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Cliche-ridden slasher that only provides entertainment by being bad enough to laugh at.
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nandorizzi | 60 46% |
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The premise is absurd, taking away this, passes the time.
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recklessmess | 25 13% |
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I know what they did last summer, too. They made a shitty movie.
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willofgaia | 50 7% |
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One day, people will look back at the 90's and say "What ever happened to good horror films?" This film (Along with Scream) will be the thesis for that argument.
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gorejunky | 90 66% |
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Another great screenplay by Kevin Williamson but not as creative as the Scream movie. Good cast and Hewitt does a decent job as the heroine. Nice gore and definitely worth a watch.
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Tripwyre | 9 3% |
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The first in a long line of Scream imitators that missed the point of Scream entirely. It's just a mindless teen slasher flick with nary an ounce of wit, the success of which sent the genre into a tailspin it took a decade to climb out of.
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hellboy76 | 41 12% |
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Williamson captures almost none of the charm that his Scream series had, and other than a lot of good looking folks, doesn't have much to offer.
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twincinema | 60 36% |
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It is amazing what nostalgia will do to you. Everything about this film transports me back to my childhood. I think if you were not around a certain age group in 1997, you would not understand the megapowers starring in this film. I think only the women were known at the time, but Phillippe and Prinze Jr were on the brink of teen stardom. The Fisherman looks exactly like Jim Varney, and I am upset they didn't use him instead.
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auritech | 20 10% |
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By the end of the movie, you wish everyone would die. But not all of them do. Why? A terrible film.
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DesertPunk | 52 18% |
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Sometimes I dream about life in a sleepy New England town, but between this, Stephen King, and Murder, She Wrote, I wouldn't last two god damn seconds. To be fair, I wouldn't last two seconds in most movies. I'd be one of the dead hobos in Hard Target or something.
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Dakota99 | 6 62% |
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Like most slashers, I Know What You Did Last Summer is incredibly flawed, but it has a few things that work in it's favor. There seems to be a genuine attempt at a story here, and the characters are actually given development to put them above your typical slaughter victims. It's lack of reliance on gore is also refreshing to see for this genre, as it actually builds on some general eerie atmosphere. Now, it's not incredibly inventive nor self aware, which could've made this better.
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Groovy_Souls | 20 7% |
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Everything wrong with the horror movie genre post-this era. While Scream played out like a parody and tribute, this feels like neither. In fact, it feels like Scream without the fun. It's not scary, and more offensive it has few redeeming qualities. A scene here or there can be alright, but really its poorly written and cliched.
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Yiannos | 45 13% |
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Contrary to popular belief, I.K.W.U.D.L.S wasn't made to capitalize on the success of Scream, but it certainly benefitted from its mutual association in Williamson, a complete hack of a writer whose shoddily penned screenplay is full of bad dialogue and cheap twists. It also shares Scream's emphasis on surface gloss and conventionally attractive stars (re: it's 90's MTV horror) but it has no sense of humour to curb its cacophony of cliches, and Gillespie has no clue how to generate suspense.
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Ytadel | 2 14% |
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A completely hackneyed dead teenager yawnfest that takes no lessons from the previous year's Scream - despite sharing a writer, bizarrely enough.
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peyrin | 25 7% |
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Hate teenagers.
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Vandelay1 | 71 78% |
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good movie
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| Average Percentile 22.12% from 6208 Ratings |  |