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I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 6

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
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During the annual July 4th festivities in a North Carolina fishing town, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wins a local beauty contest and departs with her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Philippe) and pals Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.). On their way back home, Ray hits a fisherman with her car. The teens panic, drop the body in the water, and abandon the scene. Many months later when Julie returns from college, she gets an anonymous note: "I know what you did last summer." The

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Horror

Kevin Williamson

Aug 7, 2001

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Critic Reviews for I Know What You Did Last Summer

All Critics (52) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (26) | DVD (16)

...competent but uninspired...

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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A smart, sharply drawn genre film with a moral center and a solid cast.

January 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Richard Harrington
Washington Post
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...fun, energetic and fairly scary.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Teasing and taut, I Know What You Did Last Summer is a teen horror flick with a different kind of kick to it.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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The payoff is less effective. It involves several teen-scream modules, such as the $1.98 Startle Effect; the Hand on the Shoulder; and the Is He Dead Yet? gambit.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
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Remember all those terrible slasher flicks from the '80s? This could be one of them. It certainly ain't no Scream.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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This horror movie is too intense for kids.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (2)
Charles Cassady
Common Sense Media

It can't even lay claim to the thin joy of being a tremendously bad and trashy wallow in the gutter. It's just... useless.

July 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

...a tedious, distinctly by-the-numbers slasher flick.

June 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

A reasonably well-made low-end pic that serves as a cautionary tale for callow teens. [Blu-Ray]

July 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

A depressingly routine slasher film.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Often feels more like a perfume commercial than a "horror movie".

January 24, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Scott Weinberg
Apollo Guide

...has some good thrills and some good jokes.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Melissa Morrison
Boxoffice Magazine

O ponto forte de 'Pânico' é o calcanhar de Aquiles de 'Eu Sei o Que Vocês Fizeram no Verão Passado': em ambos os casos, o roteiro de Kevin Williamson.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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Yawn. So there's a group of teenagers, they kill someone, that someone comes back ... are you bored yet? Yeah me to. The classic mix of screaming beauties, testosterone riddled jocks and slightly outcast plain people running around convincing themselves that anything they do for the 90 minutes this movie lasts matters

October 9, 2011
theunknownhobo
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It wasn't that good.....but it wasn't bad eighter

March 20, 2008
TheGame90
Martin Sahlin

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    1. Helen Shivers: Well Bob, at summer's end I plan on moving to New York where I'll pursue a career as a serious actress. It's my goal to entertain the world through artistic expression. Through art I shall serve my country.
    – Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Helen Shivers: We should have a plan. Angela Lansbury always had a plan.
    – Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Ray Bronson: I know. The guilt was killing me, I had to know who he was, that's why I went to see Missy. I'm sorry I didn't tell you but I wanted you back, I couldn't lose you again. I love you Julie. No one gets me the way you do.
    2. Julie James: I understand your pain.
    – Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)
    1. Benjamin Willis: I know all about accidents and let me give you some advice, when you leave a man for dead, make sure he's really dead.
    – Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)
    1. Julie James: You? Ben Willis?
    2. Benjamin Willis: Good, I see you've been doing your homework too.
    – Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

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