I know what you did last summer

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Movie
German title I know what you did last summer
Original title I Know What You Did Last Summer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Jim Gillespie
script Kevin Williamson
production Stokely Chaffin ,
Erik Feig ,
Neal H. Moritz
music John Debney
camera Denis Crossan
cut Steve Mirkovich
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I know what you did last summer is an American horror movie . It was published in 1997 and had two sequels with the same basic theme by 2006. The film is based on the novel I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan , but takes numerous liberties with the template.

action

One of the highlights of the American Independence Day celebrations in the American fishing town of Southport is the election of the fish queen, the Croaker Queen . In front of her watching friends Julie, Barry and Ray, high school graduate Helen has left her five competitors behind. In the evening the two couples drive along a coastal road celebrating. In the opening credits one saw a young man sitting on a cliff with a rotating medallion in his hands. In a careless moment, Ray, who is behind the wheel, runs over something. On the side of the road, the friends find the body of a man with a face covered in blood. In their panic, the young people decide to cover up the accident and throw the apparently lifeless person into the nearby sea. In doing so, Helen's crown, believed to be dead, tears underwater from the beauty contest. When Barry jumps up to save her, he sees the man open his eyes. Again, the young people do not take this as an opportunity to help the injured person and instead swear to themselves that they will forget the terrible incident and never say a word about it again. The medallion remains on the bank.

A year later, the friends have largely lost sight of each other. Julie is returning home from college for the summer break and finds a letter. The content is just a single sentence: “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!” (Eng. “I know what you did last summer!”). She then gets in touch with her former best friend Helen, who is also unable to cope with last year's accident. Together they look for Barry, who believes in a joke and suspects one of Julie's friends, Max, to be the sender of the letter. Max let Julie and Ray get him off the night a year ago when he drove past the four's car shortly after the accident. After the unsuspecting Max was visited and threatened by Barry, he is killed by a stranger in an oil jacket with a packing hook . Barry is hit and injured by the same man. The other three visit him in the hospital.

Julie, who knows that a David Egan was found dead from a crab net two weeks after the accident, researched with Helen in a newspaper archive that on July 4, two years ago, Susie Willis, the dead man's fiancée, drowned in his car after this drove it over a cliff. The two go to Egan's sister Missy, who says that a friend of her brother named Billy Blue has given her condolences . In the evening a figure in an oil coat enters Helen's house and overhears a conversation between her and her sister. The next morning, July 4th, Helen finds herself with her hair cut and "SOON" written on her mirror, while Julie discovers Max's body in her trunk, which, however, disappeared again when she was Brings Barry and Helen over. Ray joins them and Julie decides to go to Missy's college yearbook again to identify the suspected pseudonym Billy Blue from the photos. When Julie tries to reveal the accident to her, she speaks of her brother's suicide and shows a suicide note “I WILL NEVER FORGET LAST SUMMER”, which Julie interprets as a threat of death. A dispute ensues because Missy insists that her brother drowned and did not wear the Susie tattoo Julie saw, or any tattoo at all. Julie realizes that she was wrong about the victim's identity. She returns to the newspaper archive again, where in an article the fisherman Benjamin Willis is named as Susie's father.

Despite the events, Helen has traditionally had to take part in the new Croaker Queen election as last year's winner . Barry watches from a gallery . Helen observes how someone in an oil coat appears behind Barry and knocks him down with his hook. Desperate, Helen tries in vain to get up through the crowd. During the subsequent inspection of the gallery by a police officer, he overlooks traces of blood. When he is about to drive Helen home, a breakdown vehicle blocks their way in an alley. The figure in the oil jacket kills the policeman who got out of the car. Helen manages to escape from the police car and into her sister's shop. However, the murderer has already got in through the unlocked back door and kills the lady in charge. Helen was able to flee at first, but was found by the man in an alley a few meters from the busy street and, despite strong resistance, was also killed.

Julie rushes to the harbor and finds Ray, who has become a fisherman after last summer, on his boat. It gushes out of her that she now assumes that a year ago someone other than herself and David Egan was on the road, namely Ben Willis, who first murdered Egan and was then hit by them but not killed. Ray asks Julie into his boat, but then she sees the boat name Billy Blue . Julie runs away, Ray follows, a fisherman knocks Ray to the ground and calls Julie to escape to his boat. There she sees a pin board with photos of her and her friends on it. The fisherman hangs up the medallion and hints at the accident. Julie realizes that she has Ben Willis in front of her and that the ship is already at sea. She escapes below deck while Ray gets on Willis' ship in a motorboat. In the ice room, Julie comes across the bodies of Barry and Helen. When Willis tries to hook the hook in Julie after fighting Ray, his hand is caught in a rope on the rigging . Ray releases the winch safety device , causing Willis to be pulled up and his hand on the block of the pulley system ripped off; Willis falls into the sea. Ray explains to Julie that he felt guilty about seeing Missy.

A year later, Julie is back at university and on the phone with Ray. In the shared bathroom, she receives a letter addressed to her. When she opens it, she finds an invitation to a party. When Julie tries to get in the shower, she notices a message on the shower door: "I STILL KNOW" (Eng. "I still know"). A dark figure in an oil coat jumps towards them through the door and all you can hear is a scream.

background

  • Lois Duncan , the author of the book I Know, What You Did Last Summer , publicly stated that she hates the film because the makers made a slasher film out of her 1973 book . She particularly disliked that given that her 18-year-old daughter Kaitlyn was found murdered in her car on July 16, 1989.
  • The film was shot in 50 days in various cities and locations in North Carolina and California .
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt auditioned for Helen , Sarah Michelle Gellar for Julie . They were cast for the other role.
  • In the film Julie and Ray and Helen and Barry were couples, in real life the actors of Ray and Helen, Freddie Prinze Jr. later married . and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
  • The film had a budget of around 17 million US dollars . He grossed over $ 125.5 million worldwide, including over $ 72 million in the US alone.
  • Kevin Williamson wrote the script for I Know What You Did Before Scream Last Summer . , however, could not sell it to film companies. It was only after Scream hit theaters in 1996 that Columbia Pictures bought the script for I Know What You Did Last Summer .
  • In one of the first scenes, Helen tells her friends that they want to go to Dawson's Beach . This is a reference to the Dawson's Creek series written by Kevin Williamson.
  • The uncut version of the film was approved in Germany from 18 until 2015, after a re-examination by the FSK it was downgraded to 16.
  • In the scene with Julie James and Helen Shivers driving to Melissa Egan's country house, Helen Shivers asks her friend, “ Shouldn't we have some kind of plan? Angela Lansbury always has a plan. “Helen is referring to the fictional character of investigative writer Jessica Fletcher, played by actress Angela Lansbury , in the crime TV series Murder is her hobby from the 1980s. In the following scene, Helen mentions the actress Jodie Foster , who had to suffer during their lifetime under various stalkers, for example in relation to the insane assassin John Hinckley, Jr. .

Sequels

The film was followed by two sequels. In 1998 Danny Cannon directed I still know what you did last summer , which again featured Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. participated. Eight years later, I will always know what you did last summer , which, unlike its predecessors, was released directly on DVD and has a completely different line-up.

Reviews

  • Cinema : “Let's not kid ourselves: Without Scream's wake , 'I know what you did last summer' would not have been spared the fate of the video premiere. (...) Conclusion: moderately exciting slasher. "
  • prisma : “A predictable slasher film (...). The typical follow-up to the hit movie "Scream" by Wes Craven , for which Kevin Williamson also wrote the screenplay, is an unoriginal film that quickly flattens out after a useful start and has hardly any formal qualities to offer. Since the film was a big box-office success despite its boring story, a follow-up was a must. But apart from the fact that the titles are getting longer than they already are - "I still know what you did last summer" followed in 1998 - there is no increase to report. "
  • Lexicon of international film : “A largely conventional, but definitely exciting horror film with some overly horrific scenes. Although without ironic reflection on the mechanisms of the genre, he creates an interesting psychological scenario that deals with the topic of guilt as well as the need to face it. The topic is not dealt with consistently. "

Nominations and Awards

year event category Result
1997 ASCAP Award Top Box Office Films, John Debney Nominated
1998 Saturn Award Best horror film Nominated
1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Female Newcomer, Favorite Actress, Jennifer Love Hewitt Won
1998 Favorite Supporting Actress - Horror, Sarah Michelle Gellar Won
1998 Favorite Actor - Horror, Freddie Prinze Jr. Nominated
1998 Favorite Actress - Horror, Jennifer Love Hewitt Nominated
1998 Favorite Supporting Actor, Ryan Phillippe Nominated
1998 IHG Award Best movie Nominated
1998 MTV Movie Awards Best Breakthrough Performance, Sarah Michelle Gellar Nominated
1998 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress, Jennifer Love Hewitt Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for I know what you did last summer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 79 040-a V).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Trivia on IMDb.com. Accessed: May 22, 2009
  3. ↑ Filming locations on IMDb.com. Accessed: May 22, 2009
  4. ↑ Box office / business on IMDb.com. Accessed: May 22, 2009
  5. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on May 1, 2015
  6. ^ Cinema review, accessed June 10, 2007
  7. ^ Prism criticism, accessed June 10, 2007
  8. ↑ I know what you did last summer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 26, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used