Movie Review
Thriller leaves audience on edge
Campus Times
October 31, 1997
Expecting another movie like "Scream?" Well, it is similar
and it is scary, but it is no "Scream."
"I Know
What You Did Last Summer" is, however, still a great movie that
sends the viewer on a roller coaster ride and makes him jump out of his
seat, yell out loud and maybe even hit the person sitting next to him by
accident.
The movie is a great thriller that made the audience literally scream.
Director Jim Gillespie and "Scream" screenwriter Kevin Williamson
have the viewer at the edge of his seat trying to figure out the murder
and leaves him totally confused at the same time.
The movie starts out with two couples, Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt)
her boyfriend Ray (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and
her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Phillippe), who have just graduated high school
and are getting ready to start their adult lives.
After a night of drinking and celebrating their graduation on a romantic
beach, the crazy teenagers decided to drive home. Ray wants to drive Barry's
new BMW because Barry has had way too much to drink. Barry's rude behavior
of passing around alcohol and hanging out the sun roof leads them to the
nightmare's beginning.
The kids believe they have killed somebody. After being scared and confused,
they struggle over what to do with the body. The group takes the body to
the ocean and dumps it into the water. They decide to make a pact that they
will not tell anyone about what they have done. They feel that if they do
tell the police or anyone else, no one would believe that it was really
an accident.
A year goes by and each of them are home for the summer. Julie receives
a letter her first day back from college that says, "I know what you
did last summer." She realizes that someone else besides the circle
of the pact knows their secret.
Then other weird things start to happen. Helen gets her hair cut off
in the middle of the night in her own bedroom and Barry is practically run
down by his own car.
They then have a tormentor out there who knows their secret and is getting
revenge on them for what they have done.
The story leaves the viewer in the clouds trying to figure out who is
responsible for the pranks and the murders. After the viewer thinks he knows
who it is, he realizes he is wrong and the thinking cap goes back on.
If interested in gory, graphic movies of suspense and murder then this
movie is it. It is the kind of movie where one finds himself yelling at
the screen telling the girl not to get out of the car, or telling the guy
to turn around before the murderer gets him. But then again, it would not
be Hollywood if the characters did the smart thing, now would it?
