I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Sun Oct 27, 6:00 PM - Sun Oct 27, 8:00 PM

1h 41m / R / Horror

Remember Scream? Scream was very popular. No complaints here, because it deserved that popularity; Scream was fresh and original and good. It was inescapable. But just because something was made to piggyback on the success of something else doesn’t make it bad; I Know What You Did Last Summer is the best of the Scream-alikes, for three basic reasons. One, it shares a screenwriter (Kevin Williamson) – who adapted the 1973 Lois Duncan YA novel of the same name – so at least you can argue that it’s a personal style and not plagiarism. Two, it’s got a dream cast for a mid-‘90s teen romp — you can’t argue with the star power of Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze, Jr. And three, it starts from an interesting premise. Scream’s gamechanging idea was “what if you made a horror movie where the victims were actually aware of other horror movies?” Summer is almost a remake of Scream with that premise removed — the characters are being chased by a version of a scary story they tell each other, but they refuse to believe that their bogeyman has come to life. It’s an inverted Scream, perfectly positioned as a date-night slasher movie (which the world will always need), and polished and entertaining on its own terms.

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