3/5 [sarcastic] Ooh, I know what you did last summer? What a crock of...
  by C. CRADDOCK (Bakersfield)
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" is based on a book by Lois Duncan, who wasn't very happy when they turned what she conceived as a 'young adult mystery' set in New Mexico into an Eastern Seaboard slasher film set in North Carolina. The killer could then use an ice hook for a weapon, and dress in a black fisherman's slicker, even though it takes place in July, and that kind of outfit would be horrendously hot. Why would so many fishermen wear it to a 4th of July parade? Lois Duncan deplored the senseless plot, but also the senseless violence, even more so when her own daughter was tragically killed. She was much happier with what they did with another of her books, Hotel for Dogs.

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Barry: Even if his body washes ashore in the next couple of weeks, he'll be eaten by crabs and small fish. Maybe we'll get lucky with a shark. Take him to the side.
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I wanted to see this because I kinda like the actors, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and even Prinze Charming Jr., Freddie Prinze Jr. Prinze and Gellar even got married and lived, as far as I know, happily ever after. Phillipe and Gellar were great in Cruel Intentions. But as much as I like them, it wasn't enough to make me also like this movie. Of course it was popular, and they even made at least two sequels, but from my perspective it was nevertheless a lame excuse for a film.

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Helen: What happened to us? We used to be best friends.
Julie: We used to be a lot of things.
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It was supposed to be suspenseful, but the only suspense is guessing who will be slashed, and who will survive, and that is so obvious that there is barely any suspense in that at all. You can guess just by looking at the photo on the box cover. The survivors will have some redeeming qualities, like, instead of being in favor of tossing the body of the person they just hit with their car into the ocean, they vote in favor of checking to see if they are dead yet, but are over ruled. Misfits who have crushes on the cute girls? Chum bait. Older sisters who make snide comments about their younger sister's obsession with their own hair? As good as dead. Spoiled rich kids? Rest assured they will get their comeuppance.

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Julie: We need help.
Barry: I'll say. You two should look at a mirror sometime. You look like **** run over twice.
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Somewhere around the time that Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) went to see Melissa 'Missy' Egan (Anne Heche), the sister of the man they thought they had run over, who is skinning animals and has a crazy look in her eye, I had a certain sense of deja vu. I had seen this movie before, in the theatrical release. Why? Because it was the choice of a cute young woman with less than stellar cinematic taste that I was dating. Once we even saw Ringmaster starring Jerry Springer, I am ashamed to admit.

I will allow that they had some pretty good music on the soundtrack: Korn, The Din Pedals, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Offspring, Toad the Wet Sprocket, L7, Hooverphonic, Soul Asylum, Green Apple Quick Step, Kula Shaker, and Type O Negative. I really like the slow, baritone dirge that Type O Negative made of "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts. It really set the mood for a slasher flick with a summer setting. Likewise, The Beatles' "Hey, Bulldog," by Toad the Wet Sprocket, also a great cover. Usually, though, the music was totally incongruous as a soundtrack for slicing and dicing human flesh. Finally, though, as the end credits rolled, I also enjoyed Joe South's "Hush" as done by Kula Shaker. It brought me back to my own Senior Prom, as the band that played was named Hush, and the centerpiece of their act was Joe South's song in question. They, like Kula Shaker, did a very good version of "Hush."

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Helen: Come sit in the back. I'll let you do things to me.
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Hotel for Dogs (Widescreen Edition) (2009) (book) .... Writer: Lois Duncan
... aka Das Hundehotel (Germany)
Scooby-Doo (Widescreen Edition) (2002) .... Sarah Michelle Gellar was Daphne and Freddie Prinze Jr. was Fred
The Suburbans (1999) .... Jennifer Love Hewitt was Cate and Bridgette Wilson was Lara
Cruel Intentions (1999) .... Sarah Michelle Gellar was Kathryn Merteuil and Ryan Phillippe was Sebastian Valmont
Can't Hardly Wait (1998) .... Jennifer Love Hewitt was Amanda
54 (1998) .... Ryan Phillippe was Shane O'Shea
Playing By Heart (1998) .... Ryan Phillippe was Keenan
She's All That (1999) .... Freddie Prinze Jr. was Zack Siler and Sarah Michelle Gellar was Girl in Cafeteria
The Opposite of Sex (1998) .... Johnny Galecki was Jason Bock
Nixon - The Election Year Edition (1995) .... Bridgette Wilson was Sandy

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Helen: We should have a plan. Angela Lansbury always had a plan.
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5/5 Good slasher flick.
  by Deimos (Alberta)
Good movie, cool atmosphere, great killer and lots of suspense. Not the greatest ever but certainly worth a watch or two.

5/5 Blu Ray - Rocks!
  by The Tao of Netflix (Washington, DC)
I absolutely love the I Know series, and had no choice but to buy this Blu Ray when it came out, despite already owning the standard def DVD. This is a very surprisingly great transfer and a substantial improvement over the original. Even if you're not goonie googoo over these films, as I am, you'd be well served to make this purchase.

5/5 I know . . . that this is a great movie
  by marky77 (England)
I Know What You Did Last Summer is deffinatly one of the best late ninety's wave of horror and slasher movies. It has it all - suspence, action, gore, cool death scenes, a creepy killer, A-list actors - plus it actually has a good story line. It is easy to see why this was a massive success, spawning two sequels (and hopefully another in the near future??).

Driving back from the beach after a Fourth of July party, four teenage friends, Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Barry (Ryan Phillipe), Helen (Sarah Michelle Geller) and Ray (Freddy Prince Jr) accidently hit a man who is wondering in the middle of the road. Julie freaks out and says they have to go the the cops, but Barry, who was drink driving, tells her that they'd all go to jail for manslaughter. After some argueing, they agree to dump the mans body into the ocean and each of them vow never to tell what they did.

One year later, Julie moves back with her parents for the summer after a year of college. She is not the girl she used to be, she is lonely and guilt ridden. No longer friends with those involved in the accident. But then she recieves a note from someone claiming they know what she did. She meets up with her friends only to find out they received similar threats. Soon the group are flung into a terrifying fight for survival as they are scared and stalked...and eventually killed, one-by-one, by a mysterious killer with a steal hook and a thirst for vengeance as July 4th approaches.

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a brilliant horror/slasher movie with plenty of suspence and gore. Highly recomended.

4/5 About the blu-ray
  by J. A. Torrontegui (Spain)
This is one of the best looking catalog titles on blu-ray out there, period.

I couldn't pass up the oportunity of saying so.