I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits--and apparently kills--a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, but a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer." At that point the panicked foursome becomes the target of an elusive serial killer whose disguise consists of a fisherman's slicker and a lethal ice hook. Part mystery and part slasher flick, this thriller was heavily hyped as a follow-up to Scream by screenwriter Kevin Williamson (who later created the TV series Dawson's Creek), and like Scream it's a showcase for a teenage cast including Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar. And while this shocker isn't as inspired as its predecessor, it's guaranteed to give its target audience a few good thrills as it dives toward a routine climax of mayhem and murder. Based (rather loosely) on the popular novel by Lois Duncan. --Jeff Shannon I Still Know What You Did Last Summer There was so much story left to tell after I Know What You Did Last Summer that the filmmakers brought back all the beloved, surviving characters from the first film for this sequel. Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and Julie's white tank top (Jennifer Love Hewitt's white tank top) return to once again face a hook-wielding maniac. Not satisfied merely to repeat a theme, director Danny Cannon and screenwriter Trey Callaway add variation by introducing Karla (Brandy) as Julie's best friend in the whole wide world. Karla and Julie have won a summer trip to the Bahamas with their current infatuations but find that they've arrived at the start of the storm season and that their hotel "Do Not Disturb" signs should flip to say "R.I.P." One can only hope to hang just such a sign on this repetitive, tedious franchise, especially since this version is less scary than the price of beer in those little hotel-room refrigerators. Definite contender for Gratuitous T&A Shot of the Year (it's of Hewitt and that's not meant as a recommendation). --Keith Simanton

Director(s): Jim Gillespie
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  3 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
R (Restricted)
Year:
1997
100
3,375 Views
He's got a hook on them...
Welcome to South Port, the perfect small town. But beneath the surface, there are secrets that just won't stay buried.
If you're going to bury the truth, make sure it stays buried.
Someone knows their secret, someone knows they're scared, and someone knows what they did last summer.
Someone's got a hook to wield...
This secret is about to kill them all!

Ray:
I think he's dead.

Barry:
Sh*t! F***!

Helen:
Who is he?

Ray:
I can't tell, his face is all messed up.

Barry:
What the hell was he doing out here?!

Julie:
We've got to call the police and get an ambulance out here.

Barry:
Hey, hey, what's your hurry? The guy's dead.

Julie:
You're not a doctor you don't make that descison.

Barry:
Use your brain Julie; we call the police and were f***ed.

Julie:
It was an accident.

Ray:
Look, lets think about this a minute.

Julie:
Think about what? Think about what? He was crossing the road in the middle of the night okay, it was an accident, you weren't drinking or speeding.

Ray:
There's liquor all over the car.

Julie:
But you're sober.

Ray:
They will never believe I was driving.

Barry:
It's my car, they'll nail my ass.

Helen:
That's not true.

Barry:
Are you kidding? Look at me, I'm drunk as sh*t, I'm f***ed.

Helen:
So we'll call the police, just tell them the truth, they'll believe us.

Ray:
It's manslaughter. We're gonna fry no matter who takes the fall.

Barry:
Then we leave right now.

Julie:
No way, are you crazy?

Ray:
The grille's busted, there's blood everywhere.

Barry:
We can clean it up, come on.

Julie:
Listen to yourselves, NO, we are going to the police.

Barry:
[shouting] We don't have time for your sh*t, you understand?! We've got to move fast.

Ray:
Hey, now lets try to stay calm. Focus.

Julie:
Don't you get it? If there's some of him on the car, there's some of the car on him, they're gonna trace it back to you, you're looking at a hit and run.

Barry:
Then we dump the body.

Julie:
You've lost it.

Helen:
Like just pretend we were never here.

Barry:
We could drag him into the water and dump him in, they wouldn't find the f***er for weeks, by that time all the evidence would be washed away.

Ray:
[warming to the idea] If they found him at all... The currents are strong, the undertow could carry him out to sea.

Julie:
I won't be any part of it.

Ray:
Look, I'm scared Julie, I'm not like the rest of you, I don't have the family or the money to get me out of this. Please.

Barry:
This is your future Julie, think about it, college, your scholarship. The guy's already dead, if we go to the police we're dead too.

[A truck starts coming down the road towards them.]

Barry:
F***.

Helen:
What do we do?

Barry:
[to Ray] Help me.


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