I Know Who Killed Me

I Know Who Killed Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Sivertson
Written by	Jeff Hammond
Produced by	Frank Mancuso, Jr. David Grace
Starring	Lindsay Lohan Julia Ormond Neal McDonough Brian Geraghty Garcelle Beauvais Gregory Itzin Kenya Moore Rodney Rowland Jessica Rose Megan Henning
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Edited by	Lawrence Jordan
Music by	Joel McNeely
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date	July 27 2007
Running time	105 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$12 million
Box office	$21.4 million

I Know Who Killed Me is a thriller-mystery film released in 2007.

In 2008, the film won eight Golden Raspberry Awards, a new record (beating Showgirls and Battlefield Earth) including Worst Film, Worst Actress and the first ever award in a new category, Worst Excuse For A Horror Movie.

Plot

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The quiet suburb of New Salem is being terrorized by a brutal serial killer who abducts and tortures young women, holding them captive for weeks before murdering them. Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a talented pianist and aspiring writer, appears to be his latest victim when she disappears without a trace during a night out with her friends. As the days tick by, the special FBI Task Force convened to track the killer begins to lose hope of finding her before it’s too late.

Then, late one night, a driver discovers a young woman by the side of a deserted road, disheveled and critically injured. The girl is rushed to the hospital, where Aubrey’s distraught parents, Susan (Julia Ormond) and Daniel (Neal McDonough), wait by her side as she slips in and out of consciousness. When she is finally able to speak, she shocks everyone by claiming to be a down-on-her luck stripper named Dakota Moss who has never heard of Aubrey Fleming. Convinced Aubrey is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, her doctors, parents and law enforcement officials can only wait for rest and therapy to restore her memory. But after returning to her parents’ suburban home, she continues to insist that she is not who they think she is, despite bearing bizarre wounds identical to those of the serial killer’s previous victims.

The FBI agents are further mystified when they search Aubrey’s computer and discover a short story about a girl with an alter ego named Dakota. When Dakota begins to suspect she may be Aubrey’s identical twin sister, Susan shows her a video of her pregnancy ultrasound clearly revealing there was only one fetus in her womb. Confused and terrified, Dakota starts seeing visions of a menacing figure slowly butchering his captive. Convinced that time is running out both for Aubrey and herself, Dakota confronts Daniel with a shocking truth that leads them on a frantic hunt for the killer.

Aubrey and Dakota are twins, born to Virginia Sue Moss, a crack addict. Moss gave birth to them the same time the Flemings have their own child, who dies in the incubator. Daniel Fleming quietly raises one as his own daughter, paying Virginia over the years by mail. Dakota finds the envelopes and attempts to find her parents, when she suffers sympathetic resonance from her twin's wounds, and is found by the highway. It turns out that the two are stigmatic twins, with a strange mental connection that lets them share pain, communicate, and even share experiences, which explains some of Aubrey's stories.

After investigating the grave of Aubrey's recently murdered friend, Jennifer Toland, Dakota finds a blue ribbon from a piano competition, with a message from Jennifer's (and Aubrey's) piano teacher. Dakota realizes that the teacher murdered Jennifer and abducted Aubrey after they expressed intentions to quit, taking off their fingers, arm, and a leg in a twisted retribution. Dakota and Daniel confront the killer. Daniel dies in the process, but Dakota finds Aubrey where the killer buried her alive and frees her. The movie ends with the two lying together on the ground, looking out into the night.

Cast

• Lindsay Lohan as Aubrey Fleming/Dakota Moss
• Julia Ormond as Susan Fleming
• Neal McDonough as Daniel Fleming
• Brian Geraghty as Jerrod Pointer
• Garcelle Beauvais as Agent Julie Bascomez
• Spencer Garrett as Agent Phil Lazarus
• Gregory Itzin as Dr. Greg Jameson
• Kenya Moore as Jazmin
• Rodney Rowland as Kenny Scaife
• Jessica Rose as Marcia
• Kelsey Arynn as Anya

Reception

Box office

The film's opening weekend North American box office gross was $3.5 million, making it the 9th top grossing film that weekend. It went on to gross a total of $7,498,716 in the U.S. The film's budget was around $12 million, and the film went on to gross $9,401,206 at the box office worldwide. By January 13 it had grossed $12 million on DVD rentals in the United States making a total of $21.4 million. Lindsay Lohan's July 24, 2007 DUI arrest prevented her from being able to promote the movie, which was released days later.

Reviews

I Know Who Killed Me received mostly bad reviews. RottenTomatoes.com shows an 8% approval rating from critics with the consensus: "Distasteful and ludicrously plotted". It currently holds a 16% rating on Metacritic, which indicates "extreme dislike or disgust." Richard Roeper ranked it number one on his "Worst movies of 2007" list. The film received nine Razzie nominations, the most of any film in 2007. It won eight of them, including two awards for Worst Actress (Lindsay Lohan playing twins), Worst Director (Chris Sivertson), Worst Screenplay (Jeff Hammond), Worst Screen Couple (Lohan and Lohan) and a new category, Worst Excuse for a Horror Film. The only award it lost was Worst Supporting Actress (Julia Ormond), who lost to Eddie Murphy for his role in drag in Norbit. The movie set a record for the most Razzie wins ever, previously beating the tie held by Battlefield Earth and Showgirls with seven wins each.

Despite this the film did garner a few positive reviews. Fangoria praises the film's imaginative use of colour: "the director and his visual team bathe the film in deep blues and reds, a welcome departure from the dirty green, sodium-lit palette of similarly themed horror fare, and the end result is simply a beautiful, eye-popping visual treat, so stylized that one can’t help recalling Argento’s approach to SUSPIRIA." And according to "The Movie Boy": "Lohan's stripteases and pole-swinging theatrics at the gentleman's club are notable for being genuinely steamy, sleekly shot and choreographed".

Releases

DVD release

The DVD and Blu-ray Disc were released in November 27 2007. The art cover of the DVD shows Lohan, in blue, pole-dancing, with the faces of her alter egos Aubrey Fleming and Dakota Moss on either side.Amongst the extras are alternate opening and ending scenes with the latter showing that the entire plot was actually written by Aubrey. However, the test audiences thought this ending was too expected, so it was cut from the film. Other extras include an extended version of Lohan's strip dance at the club and bloopers. By January, the DVD had grossed $11.99 million.The Region 2 DVD was released January 28 2008 with different cover art showing a close-up of Lohan, in red, doing her pole-dance at the strip club.

Soundtrack

Untitled

The score for I Know Who Killed Me, composed by Joel McNeely, was released on July 24, 2007.

Track listing

1. "Prelude for a Madman"
2. "Duality"
3. "Fairytale Theme"
4. "Daughter Is Dead"
5. "End of Innocence/Dakota Is Gone"
6. "Mother's Grief"
7. "Search for Aubrey"
8. "Bus Stop"
9. "Spontaneous Bleed"
10. "Going Home"
11. "Jennifer's Room"
12. "Some People Get Cut"
13. "Investigating Stigmata"
14. "Mirror"
15. "Graveyard"
16. "I Know Who Killed Me"
17. "House"
18. "Dad Dies"
19. "Death of Norquist"
20. "Prelude/Reunited"
21. "Chopin: Valse Brillante"

External links

• Official site
• I Know Who Killed Me at IMDb
• Official trailer at Apple.com