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This was the first true product off the conveyor belt of Hollywood teen-slasher flicks after the highly over-exposed SCREAM. Teen-slashers were suddenly back in fashion. And Hollywood loves teen-slashers. These movies are basically the same tripe done over and over, made for very little, with no aces up the sleeve and…actors in their 20s playing teenagers. Something that bothers me very much. You've probably noticed this by looking at my other reviews. IKWYDLS is no exception. Every scene has been done before and the film has little originality. Some of the killings are totally pointless and are only there to fill up the running time and give us something to look at while the characters argue over 'who is the killer'. A standard argument in these kind of movies. It's a very boring film. It takes ages to get started and when it finally does get going it's more annoying than it is exciting. Bo-oring.

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a prime example of a '90s cult classic. It has its superhot teenage cast with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar plus Ryan and Freddie Prinze, all physically attractive af especially Jennifer Love. What a goddess. Jennifer KILLED it in Hollywood she should have gotten more movies. It has a soundtrack filled with nostalgic music of the time. It has spawned spoofs and sequels. IKWYDLS is a massive classic. I love the cast, Jennifer Love Hewitt especially.

This is just like Urban legend, a scary horror movie that is underrated. It was a good movie, run-of-the-mill, but still good. Everything was not a copycat. It was scary, and well-made. WARNING! UNDER HERE CONTAINS SPOILERS! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE THEN DON'T READ THIS, IT WILL SPOIL THE WHOLE MOVIE! This is probably the reason it got a low rating. Near the end when Willis gets his hand cut off, people think he's dead. So when he appears again, they think he's unstoppable killer. Just cause his hand is chopped off doesn't mean he's completely gone. Some other scenes are obvious though which may have brought it's rating down.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER flubs all the necessities of an entertaining slasher movie. No scares, no sizzle, no humor. Four unlikable teens, recently graduated from high school, commit a hit-and-run, disposing of their victim's body in the sea. The next summer they are back home, and lo, they are notified that "somebody knows what they did last summer!" The revenge-seeker that stalks the teens, their friends and family dresses like a New England fisherman in slicker and hat. As the movie is supposed to be set on the North Carolina coast in summer, this in itself is a hoot. Also are the spooky rocky headlands of same coast. Give me a break. I ramble, but so did the movie, going nowhere and boring to death. Avoid this, there are better. Try SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, which does a much better job with the genre.

The most amazing thing about "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is how unscary it is; the number of genuine scares is surprisingly low. The film does sustain your interest throughout, but the generally unsurprising script, the standard direction and the bland, indistinct characters doom it to mediocrity. Overall, it's passable stuff, but unworthy of its reputation as an above-average, "hip" slasher film. (*1/2)

Tame, by the numbers slasher film still manages to earn some big scares and features an appealing cast. A group of teenagers shortly after graduation accidently kill someone. Fearing police charges the kids take matters into their own hands by getting rid of the body. Flash foward one year, now the kids begin to recieve threatening letters and are starting to disappear cause of a person who claims "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Rated R; Violence, Profanity, Mild Sexual Situations.

Where Scream was meant to be a send-up of the teen slasher genre, Summer is a serious example of just how effective these movies can be if they're well-written, directed and acted.

Wow, can't believe Urban Legend and I Know What you did Last Summer made so much money... These teen horror flicks are pretty bad now but I still watch them lol. I do love the Scream Series though I felt this movie was almost like a TV Horror film. I didn't remember it being this dull but, there is a good chase scene and a couple of stylish kills.