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classichorrorblog · 10 months

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

#Horror #Horroredit #I Know What You Did Last Summer #Jim Gillespie #Jennifer Love Hewitt #Sarah Michelle Gellar #Freddie Prinze Jr.#Ryan Phillippe #CHB #1997 #90s #4th of July horror

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buffysummers · 2 years

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Top 10 Horror Films (as voted by my followers): #8 — I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) dir. Jim Gillespie 👑 We’re going home now and never, ever, under any circumstances known to God speak about this again, is that clear? It is now merely a future therapy bill.

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videoreligion · 2 months

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

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cemyafilmarsiv · 6 months

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I Know What You Did Last Summer directed by Jim Gillespie

#I Know What You Did Last Summer #3 #Jim Gillespie #horror films #anne heche #cinephile #photography

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brokehorrorfan · 7 months

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Youth Energy has released two I Know What You Did Last Summer shirts. Priced at $20, they're up for pre-order through Sunday, September 24.

#i know what you did last summer #sarah michelle gellar #jennifer love hewitt #ryan phillippe #freddie prinze jr #ikwydls #horror #i still know what you did last summer #shirt #gift #youth energy #kevin williamson #90s horror #1990s horror #jim gillespie

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halloweenmoviewatchlist · 6 months

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

#1990s #slasher #sarah michelle gellar #freddie prinze jr #jennifer love hewitt #ryan phillippe #jim gillespie #series #1/3

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byneddiedingo · 7 months

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Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe in I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie, 1997)

Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., Muse Watson, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Anne Heche, Johnny Galecki, Stuart Greer. Screenplay: Kevin Williamson, based on a novel by Lois Duncan. Cinematography: Dennis Crossan. Production design: Gary Wissner. Film editing: Steve Mirkovich. Music: John Debney.

I Know What You Did Last Summer has enough going for it to be watchable: an attractive cast, a handsome setting in a North Carolina fishing town (sweetened by coastal shots from California), and a solid horror story premise. Four teens, just graduated from high school and looking forward to life as young adults, accidentally hit a pedestrian on a lonely back road and decide to cover up the death and swear to secrecy. (It’s not a novel setup: See Paul Lynch’s 1980 Prom Night for an analogous one.) But they are haunted by guilt. Top student Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) almost flunks out of college. Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), the beauty queen who dreams of stardom, fails to make it in New York and comes home to work in the family department store. The jock, Barry (Ryan Phillippe), doesn’t make it big in college athletics. The poor boy, Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.), is stuck in the family fishing business. And then, on the anniversary of the accident, which just happens to be the Fourth of July, each of them starts getting warnings that someone knows their guilty secret. So far, so good, as suspense setups go. Unfortunately, the screenplay starts getting ragged as soon as the implied threat manifests itself, and the rest, as the body count rises, is a tangle of improbabilities and loose ends. By the ending, which is a clear setup for a sequel, I wasn’t entirely certain who the killer was or even why they did it. It’s a movie full of things you’re not supposed to think about, like how Barry covered up the damage to his car after the accident, or how the killer can make bodies disappear so quickly after they’re first discovered. Unfortunately, the screenplay doesn’t have enough wit to get your attention away from these questions.

#I Know What You Did Last Summer #Jim Gillespie #Freddie Prinze Jr.#Jennifer Love Hewitt #Sarah Michelle Gellar #Ryan Phillippe

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horror-nostalgia · 2 years

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Directed by Jim Gillespie

#i know what you did last summer #jim gillespie #90s slasher #horror #horror fans #terror #horror movies #horror fan #horror movie #horror fandom #90s horror #slasher movies

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watching-pictures-move · 8 months

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Movie Review | I Know What You Did Last Summer (Gillespie, 1997)

It’s been a year since that fateful event, when the characters covered up a hit and run and swore to take this horrible secret with them to the grave. They have drifted apart, as the currents of life have taken them down different streams. But a mysterious letter has brought them back together. Jennifer Love Hewitt. Sarah Michelle Gellar. Ryan Phillippe. And now, glimpsed on the dock like a small town Adonis, Freddie Prinze Jr., in a tight black tank top, baggy as hell cargo pants and a dangerous amount of product in his hair. We can talk about how fickle beauty standards can be regardless of gender, and I’d like to stress that this was considered the absolute peak of masculine beauty in 1997.

I bring this up not just to have a laugh at Prinze Jr.’s expense (although I won’t deny that was a motivating factor), but to position this is a temperature reading of the horror genre at that moment. The slasher film was the furthest from the grindhouse at this time, having shed the purely exploitative ethos of prior decades but before mean horror would make its return a few years later. Like in Scream, with whom this shares a screenwriter in Kevin Williamson, irony was in. These characters are at least nominally aware of other horror movies (The Silence of the Lambs is namechecked at one point). Dumb and horny teenagers are out. Snarky teenagers are in. This has appeared on the Criterion Channel as part of their High School Horror series, and I’d like to think it was chosen for its usefulness in this regard. Who knows, at the rate we’re going, maybe we’ll get a series with Urban Legends: Final Cut and American Psycho 2. Disreputable Shriekquels or something like that. Not judging, just observing. (I think their insistence on contextualizing movies has helped me get more out of what’s appeared on their service. So yes, I would 100% watch either of those were they to appear on the service.) Perhaps the appearance of Fleshtone on the service may have been a sign of things to come.

Not that any of this makes this a “good” movie. Despite the R-rating, the violence is strangely shied away from, frequently cut to neuter its impact, and the swooshing camera angles and slick studio style lacking the visceral impact of earlier, cruder slashers, not to mention the forcefulness Wes Craven brought to the Scream movies despite working in a similar aesthetic. I think this one’s failings are obvious in light of that other series, which creates the illusion of safety through the irony-laden dialogue and studio production values, only to snatch it away with the ruthless, full-bodied violence that it metes out. The sense of irony here feels more a symptom of ‘90s cinema, when characters were in the habit of talking fast and making references, than anything that’s really engaged with on the thematic level.

There’s also a sense of the dead-end realities of small town realities, with at least one character reintroduced with a much more humble fate than she’s envisioned, but this also feels a little undercooked. (The choice of a fishing village also feels like a transparent element to work in the hook hand urban legend element.) You can look at something like My Bloody Valentine and see how this element could have been better fleshed out. I will also say that despite my comments on Prinze Jr.’s getup, I found the performances relatively appealing. I didn’t see this movie until now and have no strong connection to anything else these actors have done, but as they were more or less “it” for a few years when I was growing up, I can’t help but feel a certain secondhand nostalgia. I also found it pretty funny when Phillippe incriminated himself by beating up the guy from The Big Bang Theory. Not the guy everybody loves or hates (depending on how you land on the show), the other guy. (On a side note, I once had a coworker compare me to Sheldon Cooper. I lied and pretended not to know who that was. Died a little on the inside that day.) For all my qualms, I found this pretty inoffensive.

I do think there’s something interesting with the way this movie frames the slasher’s motivation. The genre has often been accused of moralizing thanks to the juxtaposition of sex and violence, but here, the protagonists are targeted precisely because of their guilt, their direct complicity in the instigating incident. You compare this to the original Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, where the villains avenge wrongdoings on characters they hold guilty by proxy, or any number of other slashers where the relationship between motivation and victim is even more tenuous. In one situation, the characters are targeted for their actions, who they are and what they did. In the other, the characters are denied even that agency. The violence is totally senseless. For all the flak that ‘80s slashers were given for their cardboard cutout characters, I know which dynamic I find scarier.

#film #movie review #i know what you did last summer #jim gillespie

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allweknewisdead · 8 months

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - Jim Gillespie

We used to be a lot of things.

#i know what you did last summer #jim gillespie #sarah michelle gellar #jennifer love hewitt #criterion channel #teen horro #film #film still #quote #watched in st louis #watched in september 2023

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90sagony · 2 years

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#225 Domestic studies: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

#I know what you did last summer #jim gillespie #jennifer love hewitt #Sarah Michelle Gellar #Ryan Phillippe #freddie prinze jr #seaside #summer time #Summertime #domestic #domestic studies #90s #90s movies #90s nostalgia

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bizarrobrain · 2 years

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Muse Watson as Ben Willis/The Fisherman in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - Directed by Jim Gillespie

#Jim Gillespie #I Know What You Did Last Summer #Muse Watson #Ben Willis #The Fisherman

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videoreligion · 2 months

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

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cemyafilmarsiv · 10 days

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I Know What You Did Last Summer directed by Jim Gillespie

#I Know What You Did Last Summer #Crime Movie #25 #Jim Gillespie

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michaelcoffeysthoughts · 7 months

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Watched Today: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

#movie #1997 #jim gillespie #letterboxd #first time watch

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years

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Eye See You (2002)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Formulaic, contrived, dull and confusing, Eye See You (released as D-Tox outside North America) stinks of re-writes and re-shoots. Shelved for 3 years as it underwent endless changes to try and give it some kind of market value, I bet most people haven’t even heard of it despite a cast that includes Sylvester Stallone, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Patrick and Dina Meyer!

FBI agent Jake Malloy (Stallone) is pursuing a serial killer with a grudge against cops. When he stops them at great personal cost, Malloy falls into a deep depression and attempts suicide. Sent to a rehabilitation program designed for law enforcement officers by his best friend, Agent Chuck Hendricks (Charles S. Dutton), several bodies suddenly turn up. It appears the killer may have survived.

The first problem are the characters, which are so flat, unmemorable and so hurriedly introduced you cannot keep track of who’s who. I could’ve predicted the identity of the killer easy if I weren’t scrambling to figure out which staff members of the facility are still alive and which aren’t, or if that dead body was the bald dude with no lines, the depressed junior officer who just told us his tragic backstory in detail, or that guy played by Mif (is that right?). Even by eliminating the characters who are so obviously set up as antagonists they can’t possibly be villainous for real, there are so many people waiting to get butchered you can’t pinpoint how the ending will go. I don’t mean that in a good way.

Eye See You is one of THOSE serial killer films, the kind with a gimmicky murderer who is so intelligent and meticulous in his planning he must be a mind reader, or the luckiest person on Earth. For a large chunk of the film, director Jim Gillespie wants us to think the killer is dead when in fact, he’s followed Malloy to the rehab center to torment him some more. How did the killer know Malloy was going there? Was he always planning on eliminating one inmate after another, or is it just happy coincidence that a freak storm breaks out, cutting all communication to the outside world and trapping everyone indoors?

Even before then, things don’t add up. The killer’s gimmick is that he likes to drill through people’s eyes, usually when they’re looking through the peephole of their front door. He strikes with (apparently) the same weapon as the “Driller Killer” because it cuts through everything like it was butter and so quickly his victim can’t pull their faces away. How he knows, they’re looking through the peephole when he’s pressing his tool against it, I don’t know. So yes, he’s needlessly cruel. I mean following that up with calls telling Malloy “I see you” and leaving the same message under the corpses eyelids? It means he's killing people for the puns. Talk about inhumane. Then he follows it up by hanging his victims – apparently the man’s the fastest knot-tier in history.

During the last few minutes, Eye See You tumbles headlong down the stairwell of stupidity, transforming into an incoherent mess of an action scene whose conclusion is magnificent. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it done elsewhere. It’s the kind of braindead, ultra-macho kick in the pants you’d expect at the end of those violent and nudity-filled low-budget drunken action flicks as the electric guitar solo ends. I laughed loud and hard, which was certainly not the intended reaction.

You won’t see the ending of Eye See You coming, but only because it sets up the characters so badly and because you won't know just how dumb this film is until the conclusion. (On VHS, March 26, 2018)

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