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I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer by Sylvain White
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DVD detailsActor: Ben Easter, Brooke Nevin, David Paetkau, Seth Packard, Torrey DeVitto Director: Sylvain White Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT Producer: Amanda Lewis Producer: Erik Feig Producer: Jefferson Richard Producer: Nancy Kirhoffer Producer: Neal H. Moritz Writer: Lois Duncan Writer: Michael D. Weiss DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1 Running Time: 92 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of I'll Always Know What You Did Last SummerDVD Review: I'll Always Know (I Kinda Hate This Movie) Summary: 2 Stars
For those that don't know, I mark any plot points I'm about to give away with #s so look for those.
Here's another series I have a deep love for. Can you call it a series if there were only two films? Eh, details. Who needs em? Luckily this film took....some in mind. Unfortunately it manipulated some of the details to match the story they unfortunately wanted to tell.
For the good, the cast actually holds up pretty well. Not too much 'B' horror talent here like I was expecting. No distractions in this aspect. And yes, it's the same movie redone over again. Lots of characters and many red herrings spread throughout the cast.
My main problem with the movie was, well the movie as well as it's resolution and let's not forget the camera work! The movie fell apart for me right away when it was based on a loose reasoning that's given away on the back of the dvd box. See they play a prank and one of their friends ends up dead. How much trouble can you get into for that? I'm guessing it's sort of like shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded movie theater or something. Is there much jailtime involved in that? Just enough to ruin the hopes and dreams of some graduating high school students I suppose.
Anyway, despite this weak to me ideal I found myself getting into the movie thanks to some willing suspension of disbelief. I got caught up in who might be doing the murdering and chasing. However the murdering and chasing ended up fairly weak in the film as well. Something the other movies did was give you chills without any murdering taking place. Such as in the first film ###when Helen woke up with her hair sliced. Or the second film when Julie was locked in the tanning bed. Neither character was hurt in any way but there's still a sense of fear that errupts when you realize someone can get that close to them or any other member of the cast at any time! There's only one real occurence of such in this film when the punk girl's guitar gets damaged.###
Another thing lets talk about: ADD camera. You know when the camera goes back and forth or there's quick cuts so the killer is far away and then closer and closer all of a sudden. It's happening more and more in horror films and it bugs me. It really gets in the way of the action for me and takes away that sense of danger. If I can't SEE how close the killer or their weapon of mass murdering really is I don't know how much to fear for the characters being chased. I can understand using such camera work in scenes of drug use to create that sense of disorientation those scenes need. But when you're showing me a chase, show me the friggin' chase okay? Not quick zooms and choppy blocks of it!
And last but not least was the tonal change. The drastic "reimagining" of the whole franchise. Now this will pretty much give away the ending so SKIP THIS PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON"T WANT TO KNOW THE END OKAY? I've done my civil duty, it's your own fault after this if you continue to read the rest of this paragraph. #####The first two films were realisic in that I could see a man going crazy and killing the people who tried to kill him. This movie chucked that idea and made the killer something supernatural. Think Urban Legend 3 but even worse! Although i suppose there WAS vodoo in the second film so there are at least prior hints of the supernatural in the series. But still, to me it's a completely uneccesary change! What, it's no longer scary to have a REAL person be a killer anymore?#####
Even with all the faults I found in this movie, I got some entertainment out of the few moments of tense action and the mystery of trying to figure out which red herring wasn't one. There's only a little here, but it's enough to keep you mildly interested. I'd say people who weren't fans of the franchise would enjoy it more since this isn't as much a continuation of the series as much as it's a pretty well done bastardation of it.
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Description of I'll Always Know What You Did Last SummerA HORRIFYING URBAN LEGEND ABOUT A GROUP OF SMALL TOWN TEENS STRUGGLING TO HIDE THE TRUTH OF THEIR ROLE IN THEIR FRIEND'SDEATH AS WELL AS FIGHTING OFF A MYSTERIOUS MENACE, WHO WANTSTHEM ALL DEAD.
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