I Know What You Did Last Summer

Published March 16, 2024

Film info

Title I Know What You Did Last Summer
Director Jim Gillespie
Year 1997
Run time 1hr 41m
Genres Mystery, Horror, Thriller
Tagline If you're going to bury the truth, make sure it stays buried

Four teenagers driving home from 4th July celebrations hit a man crossing the road. Not wanting to be done for drunk driving, they dump his body in the sea, only to realise too late that he is not quite dead. One year later, they receive letters saying 'I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER' and suddenly find themselves in great danger.

Live blog

Time	Comment
4:23	For a minute, I thought it was New Year fireworks, completely forgetting the name of the film.
7:38	I totally forgot Leonard was in this.
10:40	Same story, four different ways.
18:06	They really should be listening to JLH here.
23:04	I’m quite impressed by his swimming skills… I guess that’s what the ‘pick up a brick from the bottom of the swimming pool’ drill is for.
26:31	This has such a slasher Dawson’s Creek vibe.
31:19	“We were so careful.” WERE YOU???
46:12	“Turn right.” “Where?” “Back there.”
51:08	I was never cool enough to say wigged.
1:01:05	He punched him with his broken wrist, wouldn’t that hurt like mad?
1:14:24	When you need the internet to go fast but you’re in the 90s.
1:33:12	Massively setting up a sequel where he has an actual hook for a hand.

Thoughts

Let’s cut to the chase: I remembered this being better than it was. It was up there with Scream in my head, one of those 90s slasher movies that has pretty people, good tunes, and a brilliant horror mystery to be unravelled. It had two of those things going for it, but everything else was nonsense. The initial accident that caused the problem was blown out of all proportion and a lot of the choices made afterwards make no sense… laughable in places. The acting isn’t that great, really, they’re all quite young and go on to do a better job in other things, I think. Watchable but probably not a first choice.

Rating: 2 / 5