I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) KILL COUNT

Welcome to the death

count

where we

count

the victims of all our favorite horror movies. I'm James, Agent YZ, and today we're watching I Know What You Did Last Summer, released in

1997

last

summer

, which I'll call abbreviated because Come on, it's the most well-

know

n teen slasher released after Scream. The two films are often associated with each other, which is not surprising given that Kevin Williamson wrote both films, although this script was very loosely based on a 1973 Lois Duncan novel Screamin' Last Summer. They share some other similarities - for example, they both have a whodunnit element and both feature casts of attractive teenagers, some of whom would end up in the mystery gang - but that's where the similarities end, while screaming is an I. -aware of the borderline satire of slashers

last

summer

, it does everything with clarity and offers a more mysterious and traditional horror film without all those winks to the camera, sure the script still contains reference-heavy dialogue that ages quite a bit fast.

Jodie Foster tried to be the Skinner of the serial

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er answered the door, but I'm willing to forgive people like that because of the films' characters and the exploration of how their lives are turned upside down by a single pivotal moment. It's a great look at guilt and the way relationships can change the way you make friends who seem to be all yours. The world in high school can drift apart until they end up feeling like strangers among us. They used to be best friends and they used to be many things. I

know

that

what

you did last summer would be followed by a tropical sequel that I think is a fun mess and a third direct-to-video installment that is possibly my least favorite horror movie I've ever seen.

Seriously, that thing sucks, but before we get to those summers of the future, we have to go back to the past. summer and count all their deaths, the film begins with a wave that brushes the title of the car, a gothic metal growls at us on the coast of Sonoma County, California, near Bodega Bay, although the film takes place in North Carolina North, although most of it was filmed in Southport. so don't beat it too much, who wouldn't want to share the coast with Hitchcock's film? This impressive opening shot that soars for over two minutes finally flies down to find a sad and generally sad boy sitting on some rocks he has. a small souvenir and a last bottle of alcohol, so it's probably not a good thing, it's so precarious.

Lee finds himself perched, it's the Fourth of July in the coastal town of Southport, North Carolina, a real town of less than 3,000 people that is filmed all the time, including recently and under the dome of South Ports, the kind of place which hosts local beauty pageants with this year's pageant dominated by Helen Shivers played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, the same year Buffy the Vampire Slayer was released. Big year for Miss Geller as '97 was also when she performed CC and screamed - who was thrown from her sorority balcony Helen Wolves takes the pants off this Southport crowd Ian's and her announced Queen of the Year fish or something like that - grab Helen, your friends are so proud of you, cowfish queen, all these new high school graduates Celebrate Helen's rise to the fish kingdom with a high-speed trip to Dawson's Beach, probably named after Dawson's Creek, which Kevin Williamson also created and which was filmed at the same location, apparently using some of the milkshake sets there.

They share urban legends about hooked

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ers and talk about their future Helen plans to move to New York and star in a soap opera while her boyfriend Barry Cox played by Ryan Philippi becomes a starting NFL quarterback and then they can have babies widowed but the future It is not so clear for Julie James played by an 18-year-old Jennifer Love Hewitt who would parody this Scream Queen role in Boy Meets World a few months later. Julie's future is on a different path than her boyfriend Ray Bronson, played by Freddie Prinze Jr. in his first starring role, fun fact, fpj is a huge wrestling fan and even wrote for WWE for a couple of years, apparently he helped convince Vince McMahon to give Jeff Hardy the world title at Armageddon 2008 , Xtreme team.

Does Julian Ray's relationship suffer from a certain class? -Problems with Julie and the upper-class know-it-alls who aren't going to go to Boston for college, while Ray is a less well-off guy who is about to go to New York for some reason, I don't know exactly why, but I'm pretty sure it's not

what

Julie thinks. You're going to rise, you're going to fall in love with someone who shaves his head, is black, wears tattoos, covers his body, pierces, philosophy student, that sounds attractive, it's a dialogue from

1997

, don't worry, although Julie and Ray they may simply slap an emotional band-aid on. about his problems with a little sand in them, cracks, sex berries from the beach, to drive his car properly, so Ray takes the wheel now, if only he could keep his eyes on the road, it's hard to do, although when Barry got so hard he burst. sunroof a bottle of brother's alcohol intensifies things and sets in motion the plot of this film is a well filmed accident sequence that ends with berries placed on the roof of the car with blood on the face who is not his love this tow truck filmed by Scottish director Jim Gillespie, whose career has not been the same for Visnjic, but who made a good impression on his cast and crew, is to this day my favorite director I have worked with.

Berry is scared by the damage to his car, while Joey is scared by the blood. Then everyone freaks out when Joey finds a boot because boots don't usually walk alone, they find the body of the boots with a patented Love Hewitt cream and immediately realize they're in a certain amount of shit. body to see how deep it is I think you stood up, that's pretty deep Julie says since it was an accident they have to go to the police, but Barry is worried about getting in trouble since he owns the car and He is obviously drunk. with me, I'm drunk, he quickly wins Ray over to his side as Ray was driving and is afraid of Southport, apparently the extreme justice system looks at the friend, it doesn't matter who takes the blame.

This took place in North Carolina, not Texas, the debate they have. about what they should do is well written and acts with everyone behaving according to their characters' perspectives, just pretend we were never here, says the actor, for example, eventually Julie loses to the others who would like to just get rid of the body and pretend this never happens. it happened that the guy is already dead if we go to the police we are also dead they hear a truck approaching which inspires a theater on the sidewalk to cover them the driver is their classmate max played by Johnny Galecki who had just left Roseanne and still he had a decade left to go before he starts throwing out big theories, they pretend Barry is sick and Max finally leaves them, although honestly Barry returns too soon after leaving, they commit to the bet, they endure, the kids carry the body to a doctor and prepare to throw him away hoping the tide or the crabs will take care of it for them, just one problem though he is alive and also maybe a terminator since the guy went down with the Helens fish .

Queen Crown Berry jumps in to retrieve the evidence while she does it to the guy. Her eyes open scaring Barry back to the surface and leaving the guy behind looking like that statue of Jason in that lake in Minnesota. They all leave, which always seemed strange to me since the last time they saw him. The guy was still alive, but I guess they think he's just as good. as dead, so they make a pact to never speak of this again, although Julie has to be forced to do so. Damn shame, a year later Julie is in college where she is majoring in a dramatic change, she has it under control, but her other grades are shit, which worries her. her mother, who now has messy hair, Dombey as a daughter, are you on drugs, but Julie is a colt who has never recovered from her secret homicide and the only way things could get worse for her is if she found out he was in a horror movie, oh god?

God, later that night she's still looking at that note she didn't think it would take her so long to read it there aren't that many words there Julie just rings in Southport for the first time since she left Julie goes to Helens The family department store run by his sister Elsa and you don't know me personally, but a guy I know, he and she got it. Oh, Helen works there now that she returned from New York after her acting career didn't work out. Hey, pro tip. Helen usually needs For things like this, more than a few months Julie shows Helen the note she received and the two take her to Barry's rich house since he and Helen broke up, this acts as some sort of reunion, oh great, I love meetings, late to see. like he got run over twice, you know, usually Julie says the guy they hit and threw was called David Egan, she read about him in the paper, his body was found in the ocean three weeks after his accident and please , labeled it accidental drowning while they reflect.

Who could have sent the note to Julie? Barry remembers that Max crossed paths with them that night, so they go to the dock where the gangster works while the fisherman buries. Interrogation skills start at about 10 and go up to 11 and even. Although Max says he doesn't know anything about a note, Barry assures the ladies that his rough treatment has solved their problems. On their way out, they run into Ray, who they surprise to discover that he also works on the docks now that New York is out of work. He tries to talk to Julie, but she says she can't meet him right now and runs away with her monkey.

Later, an angry Max unknowingly loses possession of the hook from him. Luckily, there's a raincoat-clad stranger here to give it back to you. There you go, max, now try not to lose that thing anymore, it's an expensive tool that you need to do your job, and yes, I know the death graph says the number 2 up there, just trust me, it's okay, this is my job. Added Max's death. during reshoots after the rest of the movie was completed since originally director Jim Gillespie made a fairly bloodless horror movie a special makeup I said I've been through the least amount of gore in anything I've ever done before after In test screenings, they felt the audience needed to see the killer in action sooner to establish real danger.

It was definitely the right decision after a long night of hitting bags in the gym. Barry takes a shower and finds a note waiting for Matt in his locker. I know the note was left by the same guy who steals Barry's car right now and the driver shows Barry that he has cruel intentions when he steps on the gas and heads straight for him. Barry ends up getting hit by his own car and driven straight through a sacred wall. Holy shit, wow, that's some serious structural damage. The driver gets out and approaches Mary, who stares at him and silently brandishes her deadly hooks.

Barry starts pleading for his life and then waits for him to fade to the black head, his only lazy way to end it. In one scene, the man Barry is still alive recovering in the hospital because apparently the stalker fisherman is content to mess with them for now to find out who this guy could be. Julie and Helen turned to the Internet and found a bunch of articles mentioning David Egan, the guy. Jules says they arrived last summer and learned that two years ago David was the driver in a car accident in Dawson Beach in which his fiancée Susie Willis killed David's family.

David's family life is rendezvoused in the sticks, so the girls drive through a bunch of sticks to visit them. Even though they don't have a plan, some kind of plan, Angela Lansbury always had a plan, that's true, that's why they called her Angela Lansbury, they arrive at the Egan House and on the side of the house they come across a hat a year before. she was part of the fascinating experiment that is the psycho remake. This is Missy Egan, David Egan's sister and she is happy to help Julianne Helen who says her car broke down. Julie engages in an awkward conversation about David in which Missy mentions that one of her friends is a boy. named Billy Blue has visited her to offer his condolences, that's all they learn before Julie is overcome with guilt for what they've done to David's family and makes an excuse to leave, although Jules is devastated by that.

Helen is able to cope by saying Hey man, it was an accident, it's okay Helen goes home that night and between her father's apparent catatonia and his insatiable thirst for Diet Coke neither of them noticed when a clothed figure with a raincoat enter through the main door and go up the stairs to the roomby Helen. Her closet door is ajar, but Helen never sees it, so she goes to sleep and wakes up in the morning to find a bunch of strands of hair all over the bed, while terribly intimate and thematically relevant to the story. Helen's boudoir.

I think this haircut harassment would be much more shocking is that they had actually done a real hatchet job. Something tells me they weren't allowed to shave Sarah Michelle Gellar's head, although they better not see how angry she is seeing this haircut in the mirror. She's not even that bad girl. Julie receives a call from Helen and heads to her house, but a sound from her trunk makes her stop. She opens her trunk and finds a pile of crabs, and a mass of corpses surrounded by crabs. She makes Barry and Helen come over. Her car crashes Helen's gig as a backup dancer in a Britney Spears video, but when Barry opens the trunk there's nothing but a hooked umbrella inside that was a quick crab cleanup.

The man must have used that special shampoo with the little comb and everything Julie is angry. that this guy keeps playing with them and takes a predatory stance to yell about it. Give it a little twist. Jules' Pleasant Sigh is perhaps the most infamous scene in this movie, and it turns out that it was directed by a kid who won a contest. like he beat her to the street and the change is just you know, he yells like what are you waiting for? ha and I literally said "is that you?" this is what I'm going to do okay this is a great idea and then we were doing that and it was amazing and it looked cool and then they get it and doesn't everyone love going to see Ray and Barry shows a complete lack of conversation skills again, as well as a complete inability to connect with a pot, credit to Ryan Philip II though for bringing everything. that angry energy for a character originally imagined as a much bigger guy, Ryan is no joke, he is physically, it's not like Ryan has almost had to overcompensate in terms of his aggressiveness to be a dominant force against a bigger guy, a piece is made when the group agrees. to stop accusing each other and Julie decides that she's going to go see Misee Egon again because maybe the killers, that Billy, the blue boy who visited her, will catch you, blue boy, while Julie does that.

Helen goes to this year's Fourth of July Fish Queen Parade with a ton of fish-themed decorations made by production designer Gary Wisner. I think the setting of this film is another of its strong points. I love the small fishing town vibe on the east coast. Reminds me of the mutilator. It's also the perfect setting for a fancy-dressed killer. he can easily disappear into these crowds maybe keep that in mind before you go around mowing down old guys grizzly bear no seriously buddy you might want to get rid of that guy I think he's having an episode of something Julie returns to Missy Egan's house and thinks A little more Texas Chainsaw keep an eye out for Jules sliding doors, so he's not wearing a human skin mask.

Missy still approaches Julie like a serial killer because this movie really wants there to be a group of suspects to point the finger at. as she cuts off fish heads while Julie mentions David again and when she says his death wasn't an accident, Missy says she knows how to play suicide, she says David went up the cliff last year to kill himself because of the accident that killed her fiancé. and she knows that they left a note this is not a suicide this is a death threat Julie realizes in record time that the person they hit was not David Egan but the one who left these notes first one for David and then another for her She runs back home when the Southport beauty pageant starts with Helen, the outgoing fish queen who has to be on stage all the time for some reason, it's a bit strange, Barry watches over her from the rafters for her safety. , but that also means it's a captive audience for talent. part of this show, luckily for Barry, he doesn't have to listen to this much longer because the fisherman is here.

Helen screams as they attack him, but for some reason the crowd feels the need to grab her and physically restrain her while she screams for someone. needs help Tam Southport Ian all of you are crazy Barry is murdered while Helens tangles with a bunch of hook stabs to his torso when Helen finally gets a cop called Kappa Rizzo up there the body is gone with some blood dripping invisible, all that is left behind Kappa Officer Rizzo takes Helen home while questioning her murder claim. Did this fisherman use the same hook that cut off all your hair?

What the fuck are you talking about? Dude, she has a normal shoulder length haircut. What is stupid? The plot points a path. The barrier forces them into an alley where the cop encounters a guy who apparently needs some roadside service. He ends up being the killer, giving Kappa Reso a hook stab in the stomach and giving us a fair amount of screaming and bleeding from the mouth, at least. he laid him down very gently, although that's what Helen briefly finds herself trapped in the back seat of the police car, which Kevin Williamson would repeat in his script for Scream Two, released the same year.

Finally, she kicks her way out of custody and escapes the slow-walking killer. You know, not walking slowly, she runs to her family's store and because of her huge advantage over the slow fishing motherfuckers, Elsa lets her in before he can get to her, although how come Elsa doesn't? saw the guy approaching them when he? it was so close a shop window it's all window Elsa closes the front door but get up and get to the back door in time the fisherman already came in so he kills Helen's older sister with a hook to the chest I love the photo of him carrying the body away, but again, this kill was originally done without any blood producer like Eric Feig, he had Gillespie come back and shoot him again with that blood spray which, as you know, makes it medically impossible for there to be no blood if someone take a hook and cut someone's neck.

Helen hears the commotion and goes downstairs where she is attacked by the killer who apparently decided it was worth hiding under a tarp and pretending to be a mannequin after seeing her sister's dead body. Helen climbs into temporary safety with the load of the tent. This entire elevator sequence is one of my favorite parts of the movie. I often get bored with chase scenes, but this one is still interesting and makes good use of all the alley spaces in the small town of South Park, only failing at the end. My widely maligned moment when Helen stops her mindless running to look behind her, the fisherman appears out of nowhere and kills her behind a pile of tires, while it's really stupid that she stopped like that.

I love the shot from above that shows how close it was. save me through all this Julie and her careful cleavage friend have finally figured out who the killer is thanks once again to the power of beer and the donut turns out he might be the father of David's dead fiancée Susie, a local fisherman named Benjamin Willis. Julie runs. into town to share this new information with all his friends, but sorry Julie, they're all dead, womp-womp, all except one who, wait a minute, runs a fishing boat called Billy blue, oh no, it wasn't Ben Willis who sent them. notes and attacking them is Ben Ray hi or so Julie thinks since Billy Blue was the guy who visited Missy and I don't know man to be honest the whole Billy Blue thing was a bunch of bullshit anyway Julie runs away from Ray. and a guy in a baseball cap offers her a clothesline, the guy tells Julie he has a ship's phone she can use, but when she boards, all she finds are a bunch of articles about her and her friends. stuck on the walls that the fisherman detaches. and she confronts Julie to reveal that the prey was not the killer, but Dingus, it was him.

Benjamin Willis Ben Willis chases her around her boat in a scene they actually filmed on the Cape Fear River, which turned out to be a hassle for the production, never, ever, ever. shooting in the water this elemental force is uncontrollable the whole boat sequence was horrible behind the docks lightning finally recovers and steals a small motor boat to reach sweet Susie a boat named after her daughter, for Of course, three times they go on deck to confront the cunning fishermen and the two fight until Ray is distracted by some jewelry and Zorro, which throws him overboard and ties him in a fishing net.

Julie runs through the boat hall and a rarely seen nautical version of the final girls circuit, but don't worry, this variation still includes staples like the corpse discovery ray that returns aboard and appears just in time to launch a hook into Ben Willis's face and knocks him down, but he doesn't return for long to hit the lightning bolt. and wish Julie a happy fourth and even give her some advice for Independence Day when you leave a man for dead, make sure he's really dead, but his final move gets his hand caught in the ship's ropes and, Thinking quickly, Ray sends the guy into the rigging, where his hand is cut off, Ben Willis, with no hands, falls into the sea, and Ray and Julie leave him behind as they sail back to Southfork.

I am the docks. They share a certain relief at never having killed anyone. The worst thing they did was cut off Ben Willis's hand. Hands off and that guy was a complete idiot. I know some people are going to need all of this explained to them and don't feel bad, it's a little confusing, so here's a full summary of what happened. David Egan was the guy we first saw sitting on the cliff on July 4, 1996, a year earlier he had been driving drunk and caused an accident that killed his fiancée Susie Willis. David ended up finding a note from Susie's father, Ben Willis, why they were asked to meet him in the clip or found him. he there remembers that in any case he killed David Egan and, although he is not on screen, we saw David as a character when he was alive, that is why I add it to the death count and say that it was the first death.

I know it's a disaster. but I'm not sure what he was supposed to do here after he finished killing David Ben Willis was beaten by the kids but they didn't kill him and he still wasn't dead after they threw his body in the water and left it all Jason 5 :00 a A year later, in 1997, Ben Willis started writing notes to kids and killing them as revenge for, I mean, you know, hitting him with a car made him cool. Oh, and Billy's blue thing. Ray's captain is a ship named Billy Bloom after hearing on the news about David's body washing ashore and, assuming David was the person, they beat up the guilty Rafael and visited David's sister, Missy, to offer him his condolences using the alias Billy Blue, that's all, it was stupid.

The film ends with a new day at the mall taking place another year later. 1998 Julie goes back to college and from the sound of this phone call she and Ray are still together and very sexy with each other, but what is this about Jules? A note in the same handwriting as Ben Willis' threats, don't worry, it's just an invitation to a brotherhood party. There's nothing to worry about here except the Greek system, well that and this thread carefully written on the shower door scared us last summer, but I don't count it as a death because that scene is completely ignored in the sequel . let's chalk it up to a traumatic hallucination or something, let's find out how many deaths really occurred here and get to the numbers, uh, let's get to the numbers: six people died and I know what you did last summer, oh, one of them was way out of line. screen and I'm still not sure if it was correct to tell it.

The victims were four men and two women. the golden chainsaw, the four coolest kills: Max, I love that hook to the chin and pulling his body over the stove to leave a trail of blood behind. It's a big sad shuddhi for the silliest death, we'll go with David Egan, can I do that? Of course I am, it's my fucking show and that's it. I know you did it last summer, it came out in 1997 and was parodied extensively in a horror movie. It took a lot of self-control to not just constantly reference movie jokes in this script.

I watch the sequel next week featuring Jack Black and Jeffrey Combs, but until then I'm James Agee. Well, there's been the killing, Kyle. Thank you very much for viewing this week's death count. I want to thank some sponsors like Daniel K. Mia Madeleine, how the dick, the dick and the axe, Atkins. Final Four AJ Martin Hazel Fiatter Dionne Leonard and she will travel very excited for this cow-killing franchise. Hey, I know things are crazy out there, so I just hope everyone watching is safe and well. Thank you all, be good people.