I Know What You Did Last Summer (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]

Four high school friends Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Barry (Ryan Phillippe), and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr) are out partying one night when they hit and kill a man on the road. Rather than report it they attempt to cover it up. The movie is about fate as they have to pay for what they’ve done.The story follows a familiar path for the serial killer genre. The kids start getting creepy messages and mysterious events begin happening to them. That drives them to try to figure out who is behind things.What could they add to this tried and true formula to not make the movie routine? The main thing was the killer didn’t hunt them down one by one right away. Instead, he tormented the kids like stuffing a dead body in a trunk and then taking it out so they seem like they’re going crazy. Second, they made the killer a big bad fisherman. Yes, that’s right, a fisherman. They also dropped the Friday the 13th/Halloween type villain who walked as slow as a geriatric and yet was still able to kill people. The fisherman walked like normal people.On the other hand, the climax is kind of lame. Julie gets stuck on a boat with the killer but doesn’t want to jump overboard and swim when it’s right by the docks.Overall, this film was held up as one of the great horror flicks of the 90s, but today it seems rather run of the mill.C

4th of July fun comes to an abrupt halt when 4 friends run over a mysterious stranger on a lonely coast road. Honestly they need one of those yellow road signs Mysterious Loner Crossing Next 10 Miles. Taking the wisest course of action they drive the body to the docks and hurl him in. Now a year later the secret has taken a toll on them but you can never run far enough from your past. It will always catch up to you and in their case the past is wearing a rain slicker and carrying a hook.The quintessential late 90s horror film. Attractive cast, self aware dialogue, lots of popular music on the soundtrack, big cordless phones, crappy 90s cars, midriffs, the only thing that is missed is there isn’t a single pager anywhere to be seen. Jennifer Love Hewitt is great as the girl detective and everyone else is just along for the ride. The killer has a great unique look. The chase sequences are good and tense, especially the chase through the department store. I think I like this more than Scream giving it the prize for best slasher of the late 90s because the Ghost Killer can be a tad goofy where as the Rain Slicker Killer? Sure why not, is just a menacing presence. The movie gets big bonus points for featuring one of my favorite bands, Southern Culture on the Skids in a cameo as the band at the beginning of the film.

You have to see this movie multiple times to understand just how bad it is. I'm all for giving any horror movie a little wiggle room when it comes to believability, but this movie doubles and triples down on the absurd. Like when the perpetrator filled Julie's trunk with a rotting corpse and a thousand slimy crabs. Julie and the gang come back to investigate two minutes later but magically the omnipresent psycho fisherman, apparently aided throughout the movie by otherworldly telepathy, divination and teleportation means, has incredibly restored her trunk to pristine status in a matter of seconds, in a crowded neighborhood and in broad daylight no less. Freddy Krueger himself couldn't have pulled it off. Jennifer Love Hewitt is abysmal at portraying the innocent minded empath ( yet ironically this seems to be her typecast, LOL). Freddie Prinze Jr.'s acting was just as bad. On a positive note, I think the Buffy woman did a good job. All of the characters were stereotypical, but with her role they did a great job showing how life turns out for beauty queens after their happy days peak.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), an American slasher/thriller. Directed by Jim Gillespie, it is very (apparently very) loosely based on a 1973 novel of the same name by Lois Duncan as well as the urban legend about the Hook killer. Basic premise is on July 4, 1996 in Southport, North Carolina, friends Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and Barry Cox (Ryan Phillippe) driving home from the beach late at night hit an unexpected pedestrian on some swirvy, cliffside coast road, conspire to dump the not-quite-dead body in the ocean, make a pact to never mention it again, and when the four reunite a year later, a slasher leaves them taunting notes and proceeds to kill people in his way in his mission taunting and stalking the four, then tries to kill the four friends one by one.I actually am just now seeing this movie for the first time. Definitely peak late 1990s with actors like Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. in their prime and one of the main if not the main 90s horror/thrillers.I liked the idea finding out about the man the four killed and seeking the identity of the slasher was a real mystery. I didn't like how convulted the mystery could be and only one person, Julie, was really committed to unraveling the mystery (Helen helped some, and three of the four definitely kept an eye out for and tried to spot the killer, but Julie did all the heavy lifting as far as sleuthing goes). I think the film leaned really heavily into making it look like one of the four was the killer, maybe too heavily. The movie takes a while to set up the initial premise and could be something of a slow burn compared to more recent films but I liked both aspects. Pacing generally was good. Some head scratching moments as to why the killer did what he did, especially with an early murder and gaslighting one of the four (effective as scary cinema but maybe makes little sense when you think about it later as to why that person was killed and how the gaslighting was done). Otherwise the movie had a good 80s horror slasher vibe and had many exciting scenes. Wow Sarah can scream!Though the movie is set in and largely filmed in North Carolina, it is obvious the rocky, seaside scenes early on were clearly not like any terrain in North Carolina (filmed on the coast of Sonoma County, California). Pretty, but definitely not North Carolina (which otherwise was well used).Looking at articles and interviews especially years later on the film, some cringey aspects here and there are talked about some now. Not defending these elements but it was a different time, I think the movie is still fun to watch, and nothing was egregious I think. The most cringe was off camera though, in the press's obsession with the female cast members wardrobe and anatomy (which was also commonplace at the time, something now being revisited with say how Britney Spears was treated).

This film and its sequel are DVD treasures in my dad's shed. I have loved these films since I first saw them in the late 90's. They are classic 90's teen slashers made during the 'Scream', 'Final Destination' and 'Urban Legend' era. Get this film if you love 90's stalk and slash films. Most of the actors who played the main characters in this film went on to fairly successful movie careers. The film is entertaining and very easy to follow; the acting is 'so so'. It has some gory scenes but nowhere near as tasteless and gross as Elii Roth's 'Hostel' films. Overall I consider this film to be an entertaining laugh to be watched with popcorn and the lights out. Try it on a rainy Friday or Saturday night when you don't feel like venturing out

To those who have the DVD version they will understand 100% what i am talking about below :This is a MUST take blu-ray cause :You can finally see it with colours .. something tha the DVD version never had .. it was an almost straight VHS transfer on DVDThe sound is totally upgradeThe blu-ray have almost all kind of subtitles and it will please almost any customer in any country.WORTH BYING

I love this film.Although it is a terror film, I find it nice in the aspect of actors, acting ,direction, script .Contrasting with other films and other terror films, this film I think is intended for people with a good taste.

Had this on VHS, but wanted it on DVD. Fine, but the movie looks like a VHS- to DVD-transfer. Very bad picture quality and the movie suddenly stop at the end credits.

If you like 90s horror then your gonna really enjoy this movie, it arrived on time and in perfect condition, it works on UK/Ireland blu ray player's so don't worry about that, I'm very happy with it, highly recommended it to any horror fan who hasn't seen it yet, and there's a sequel that I also recommend.