| | | "If You're Going to Bury the Truth, Make Sure it Stays Buried."
Jennifer Love Hewitt (from TV's Party of Five) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (Scream 2) star with Freddie Prinze, Jr., Ryan Phillippe and Johnny Galecki in this terrifying tale of a body that just won't stay dead.After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave,and he's looking for more than an apology.
"A polished genre piece with superior fright elements." Derek Elley, Variety
"More laughs and chills than Scream." Jeanne Wolf, Jeanne Wolf's Hollywood
"...fun, energetic and fairly scary." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"...has some good thrills and some good jokes. You'll shriek, you'll laugh..." Melissa Morrison, Box Office Magazine
"...well-directed (Jim Gillespie), impressively shot (Denis Crossnan) and performed in frenzied style by a youngish cast..." Mike Clark, USA Today
"A pure fright machine [that] scares the hell out of you!" Norman Wilner, Toronto Star
"...a smart, sharply drawn genre film with a moral center and a solid cast of young actors to hold it." Richard Harrington, The Washington Post
Editor's Note
After a post-graduation Fourth of July beer blast, four tipsy teens accidentally smash up a pedestrian with their car, and, in a panic, dispose of the almost-dead body in the ocean. Sure enough, the following summer, the reunited group is stalked by a mysterious figure clad in fisherman's garb--replete with fish hook. A putative echo of screenwriter Kevin Williamson's mega-hit "Scream," substituting that movie's inside-jokiness for genuine feelings of guilt and angst.
| Features | Audio: English, French, Portuguese, Thai Dolby Digital TrueHD 5.1 Surround Sound | | Director's Short Film: Joyride With Optional Audio Commentary | | Dubbed: French, Portuguese, Thai | | Featurette: Now I Know What You Did Last Summer | | Filmmakers' Audio Commentary With Director Jim Gillespie & Editor Steve Mirkovich | | Interactive Menus | | Music Video: Hush By Kula Shaker | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, Thai | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 7/22/2008 |
| Running Time: 101 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 26528 | | UPC: 00043396265288 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Portuguese Dubbed, Thai Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, Korean, Spanish, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (1998) | | | Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nominee, Best Breakthrough Peformance |
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| | Professional Reviews | Box Office
"...Good thrills and good jokes. You'll shriek, you'll laugh..." 12/01/1997 p.50Sight and Sound
"...An evocative cameo by a luminous Anne Heche..." 01/01/1998 p.45-6 USA Today
"...Impressively shot....and performed in a frenzied style by a youngish cast..." 10/17/1997 p.5D Entertainment Weekly
"...A screamingly good time..." -- Rating: B 03/27/1998 p.72 New York Times
"...[The film] knows its way around the rules of the popular horror-film genre....[The director] respects the conventions of the genre..." 10/17/1997 p.E14 ReelViews 6 of 10
I feel like I've just taken a time trip back to the '80s. Remember when slasher films were all the rage, and each year brought forth the dreaded specter of another Friday the 13th, Halloween, and/or A Nightmare on Elm Street (not to mention such other, notable titles as Prom Night and Silent Night, Deadly Night)? Well, they're back again, and stronger than ever. Scream started this recent wave, and its $100+ million box office gross has ensured a host of sequels and inferior copycats. The Wishmaster was arguably the first. I Know What You Did Last Summer, brought to the screen by neophyte director Jim Gillespie, is the second, and there are many more to come...There is one minor aspect of the plot that elevates I Know What You Did Last Summer above the level of a typical '80s slasher flick -- it has an interesting subtext. I'm referring to the way the lives and friendships of these four individuals crumble in the wake of their accident. Guilt, confusion, and doubt build in them until they can no longer stand to be with each other or look at themselves in the mirror. Sadly, this potentially-fascinating element of the movie is dismissed quickly to facilitate a higher body count. And, as I said before, a few extra deaths can only make a slasher movie better, right? - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 5 of 10
The best shot in this film is the first one. Not a good sign. ``I Know What You Did Last Summer'' begins dramatically, with the camera swooping high above a dark and stormy sea, and then circling until it reveals a lonely figure sitting on a cliff overlooking the surf. The shot leads us to anticipate dread, horror and atmospheric gloominess, but, alas, it is not to be...The ads make much of the fact that ``I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is from ``the creators of "Scream." '' That means both scripts are by Kevin Williamson. My bet is that he hauled this one out of the bottom drawer after ``Scream'' passed the $100 million mark. The neat thing about ``Scream'' was that the characters had seen a lot of horror films, were familiar with all the conventions, and knew they were in a horror-type situation. In ``I Know,'' there's one moment like that (as the two women approached an ominous house, they observe ominously, ``Jodie Foster tried this ... ''). But for the rest of the movie they're blissfully unaware of the dangers of running upstairs when pursued, walking around at night alone, trying to investigate the situation themselves, going onto seemingly empty fishing boats, etc...After the screening was over and the lights went up, I observed a couple of my colleagues in deep and earnest conversation, trying to resolve twists in the plot. They were applying more thought to the movie than the makers did. A critic's mind is a terrible thing to waste. - Roger Ebert
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