{"id":475,"date":"2017-10-30T12:36:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/31horrormovies.wordpress.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2017-10-30T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:36:52","slug":"oct-30th-i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 30th: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I-Know-What-You-Did-Last-Summer-1997-movie-poster\"<\/span><\/p>\n

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)<\/span><\/p>\n

Directed by Jim Gillespie<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The late 90s saw the reemergence of the slasher movie.\u00a0 Movies like Scream, Urban Legend and I Know What You Did Last Summer breathed new life into the genre and brought in new fans.\u00a0 It was 1997 and I was in 5th<\/span><\/sup> grade.\u00a0 My love for horror movies was in its infancy.\u00a0 I always loved Godzilla movies and I was scared shitless by Child\u2019s Play.\u00a0 For some reason I was instantly drawn to I Know What You Did Last Summer.\u00a0 I needed to watch it, and I\u2019m not sure now if I even know why.\u00a0 This movie turned 20 on October 17th<\/span><\/sup>, yes you read that correct\u2026TWENTY.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plot centers around a group of 4 friends that accidentally kill a man by hitting him with their car.\u00a0 They decided to take the man\u2019s body and dump it into the ocean.\u00a0 A year after they dump the body, they start getting odd letters and messages saying \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer\u201d on them.\u00a0 The man is back and he\u2019s seeking vengeance for being left for dead by the teenagers.\u00a0 Nothing too special, basically your run of the mill slasher story.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Playing the group of \u201cteenagers\u201d we get the gorgeous Jennifer Love Hewitt playing Julie the main character, Freddie Prinze Jr playing her boyfriend Ray, Ryan Philippe playing Barry the foul mouthed rich boy, and Sarah Michelle Gellar playing beauty queen Helen.\u00a0 The acting is basically what you would expect from the late 90s teen movies.\u00a0 As much as I was in love with Jennifer Love Hewitt back in the day, she\u2019s not a great actress but her awesome cleavage in this movie kind of makes up for that.\u00a0 That seems to be a common joke about this movie and my friend Craig once said \u201cThat movie can be summed up with one thing\u2026\u2019push up bra\u2019\u201d.\u00a0 Freddie Prinze Jr. is hammy in every movie he\u2019s in, each character he plays in any movie is the same.\u00a0 If he wasn\u2019t a pretty boy, I honestly don\u2019t think he would have had much of a career.\u00a0 Sarah Michelle Gellar is probably the strongest actor in the movie, so that really tells you how solid the rest of the cast is haha.\u00a0 Ryan Phillippe\u2019s character of Barry is one of my most hated in all of horror movies.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t wait for this tool to die when I watched this back in the day and now I still couldn\u2019t wait.\u00a0 He acts like he\u2019s a badass and drops the F bomb basically every other word.\u00a0 The fish hook wielding killer Ben Willis, is played by Muse Watson, and really there\u2019s not much to talk about, he doesn\u2019t even have many lines.\u00a0 It is also worth noting that Johnny Galecki aka Leonard from Big Bang Theory is also in this movie, as a side character named Max that has a crush on Julie (but who didn\u2019t back in 1997 right?).\u00a0 It amazes me how well each of the 4 main characters have aged in this movie.\u00a0 Jennifer Love Hewitt is still very attractive, Gellar basically looks the same, and I don\u2019t think Prinze and Phillippe have aged at all.\u00a0 Hell even Galecki looks exactly the same!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dialogue is painful in some spots.\u00a0 Helen\u2019s sister Elsa has some really bad conversations with Helen in some scenes.\u00a0 Her character is written terribly as well, she\u2019s basically a bitch even when Helen runs for her life and takes refuge in her store.\u00a0 Probably the scene that is the most inadvertently funny is when Julie checks her trunk, only to find a dead body with crabs all over it.\u00a0 She then runs to Helen and Barry that check her trunk, and the body is gone.\u00a0 Julie becomes frustrated and says the killer is watching and he\u2019s just toying with them, then she yells \u201cWHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!\u201d\u00a0 It makes me laugh every time because of how clunky and wooden it is delivered and how idiotic it sounds.\u00a0 That infamous scene was parodied a few years later in Scary Movie, classic!\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Special effects are always a huge deal in slasher movies but in this movie, they\u2019re kind of lacking.\u00a0 We get a little bit of bloody but nothing too gruesome.\u00a0 Scream has much more gore than this movie.\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t for Barry\u2019s 1,000,000,000 f-bombs this movie could be rated PG-13.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t any nudity, there isn\u2019t much blood and the kills are rather tame.\u00a0 If you\u2019re looking for a gory bloodbath, look elsewhere.\u00a0 There is one scene that is effective that I always remember from the movie.\u00a0 Helen is hiding in her sister\u2019s store when the killer walks by carrying Elsa on the fishing hook.\u00a0 It is a simple shot but haunting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe this movie is now 20 years old.\u00a0 That makes me feel so damn old.\u00a0 Every time I watch this, the cornier I think it is.\u00a0 I think this is a case of loving a movie as a kid, coming back to watch it as an adult and realizing it isn\u2019t as great as you originally thought.\u00a0 The story is clich\u00e9, the dialogue is just horrid and the acting is product of its time and it is obvious.\u00a0 The horrid sequel is by far worse and shouldn\u2019t be viewed by anyone.\u00a0 Although this movie is pretty average in hindsight, it will always hold a special place in my heart as the movie that fueled my horror movie obsession.\u00a0 Really it helped boost my love for slasher movies and for that I thank it.\u00a0 I really can\u2019t give this any more than a C.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t good, it is not bad at all but a product of the late 90s and a time capsule to that odd decade.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t seen it, watch it because it is a pillar of the slasher genre, Scream is probably better but this deserves recognition as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Directed by Jim Gillespie \u00a0 The late 90s saw the reemergence of the slasher movie.\u00a0 Movies like Scream, Urban Legend and I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-31hm"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Brandon Darling","author_link":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/author\/brandon"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"31 Horror Movies<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Directed by Jim Gillespie \u00a0 The late 90s saw the reemergence of the slasher movie.\u00a0 Movies like Scream, Urban Legend and I…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}