‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ is so fucking bad

It's not like the original was a great movie to begin with. But I'm sure it's still better than the remake.

R1 it was a fun slasher. As stated, this isn’t even fun or campy. It’s just BAD.

Maybe try reading?

R2, which is why I said "but I'm sure it's still better than the remake".

It'll be streaming in 45 days day.

How does Madelyn Cline have a career. She’s so bad

The best part for me was Tyriq Withers. Oh mama!!!

Yeah he was hot as fuck as Teddy r6.

It’s nothing but a cash grab. God what a way to completely shit all over the original. The female lead is insufferable and the acting from everyone involved is atrocious. It’s obvious who the killers are and the “twist” at the end is ridiculous and is a complete slap in the face to the original film. This is no threat to Superman at the box office.

It’s terrible. And what was up with all the humor? Madelyn Cline’s character lost TWO fiancés and seems unbothered.

The original deserves to be shit on. It sucked.

I loved the original.

But the two female leads are NOT JLH or SMG. It really makes you appreciate what stars they were back in 1997. Madelyne Cline looks like a poor man’s Amanda Seyfried. The other girl is NOT JLH.

I enjoyed SMG’s surprise appearance.

The original was cashing in on Scream. It was low-rent.

This film has the same title as the original?

Is there a black friend who dies early - i.e., evidence of studio pandering to MAGA by demonstrating that DEI is D-E-A-D?

I saw it last night, and while I liked it, it suffers from the same thing all modern horror films suffer from. It doesn’t have the grimy feeling or the atmosphere that horror movies used to have during the peak era of the ‘70s - ‘80s. From the ‘90s on, horror lost something. That said, it does have a lot of male eye candy, and it was good seeing Billy Campbell (who’s still hot, btw) as Tyriq’s rich dad.

The Brandy cameo at the end surprised me. It suggests that this one may have a sequel.

Is it as bad as The Strangers remake?

Acting ability certainly didn't keep Jennifer Love Hewitt in roles but at least she had charisma and the it factor.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is barely in this reboot. Don't waste your money. It will be on streaming by August 1st.

R19 everyone knew that already. The focus is the 5 new teens. The legacy characters are secondary.

See: Scream 5

R15 nonsense. The 90s slashers were all great and added mystery to their stories on top of building suspense. You felt a sense of danger for the characters.

00s onward is when it changed.

Don’t include the 90s (30 years ago) in the list of modern movies. Scream is a classic.

R20: I know fag.

The SMG cameo was terrible. It would have worked better had she turned around and blood started pouring down her face and then Madelyn Cline wakes up.

The issue is the scene went on for too long. It lasted a few minutes and she kept talking. That completely ruined it.

Saying 90s films are modern is like people in the 80s saying films from the 50s were modern.

We are far removed from the 90s.

[Quote] Scream is a classic.

Scream is simmering armadillo feces. The fact that millennials and younger Gen Xers are so obsessed with it shows how low the bar was for horror in the nineties.

Slashers in general suck. They were lampooned so brilliantly in a commercial a few years back that ridicules the need to have moronic decision after moronic decision made in order for the “plot” to move forward.

The thing that annoys me about Scream is how clever and meta it thought it was about the whole genre. It’s not as “knowing” as it thinks it is. That, and it’s boring. Really, really boring. And that fucking fright mask, do us a favor.

R25 you’re entitled to your opinion but understand it’s an opinion. You speak as if it’s a fact.

Fact is most disagree with you. Scream was a good time and yes, smart.

[quote] The Brandy cameo at the end surprised me.

Does she kill anyone with her car?

The horror films of the late 1990s were more meta. My favorite horror films are from the 1980s: the slashers. Give me a group of good-looking, dumb, horny teens and a face covering, and you've got a fun movie for 90 minutes.

Other than the delicious Tyriq, the Milo character was very cute too; there was really nothing new or fun about this movie. Even the red herrings weren't all that good. I clocked who the killer was almost immediately, and only doubted myself once.

OP- Did it have some decent gore or any suspense? For aa shitty film like this, that's all I look for...

Can't wait to catch Dangerous Animals at end of month when that one comes out on VOD

No r29. That’s my biggest gripe… there was zero suspense. You never felt a real sense of danger for the characters either and there was not a single good chase scene. Actually, there was NO big chase scene. Whenever the killer wanted to kill them it was mostly easy and happens fast.

Also (minus the Gabriette character) every kill is the men. All the men die first with the women always surviving somehow. Conservatives love throwing the word woke around for shit that isn’t even woke, but that was legit bordering on “woke”.

Also, any suspense that could be built is killed immediately with silly one liners. Seriously, why was there so much humor added to this? It’s like it was trying to be a Marvel film, dropping one liners shortly after someone is killed.

Bizarre.

The director (who also wrote it) should never be allowed to work again. She could have made a good movie but fucked it all up.

The atmosphere of the original was what made it so good. It was quite well directed. You also had well-known actors in small roles (Johnny Galecki, Anne Heche)

The beauty of the original Scream was that you had Drew Barrymore advertised front and center on the poster and in all the promotional material only to have her killed off ten minutes into the film. It gave you a sense that anyone in that movie could be fair game.

Yes r32

Plus Drew’s kill was so brutal and intense. The opening scene was what everyone was talking about. Best of the franchise.

I Know… had great tension and atmosphere. Very dreary in the small town setting. The buildup to the group finally being attacked was great. That doesn’t happen in this one. No one wakes up with their hair chopped off or a dead body in their trunk or chased by a car in the middle of the night. They get letters like 2 or 3 times and it’s pretty silly.

I agree, r11, though I suppose stars are increasingly a thing of the past. All four leads in the original were huge in the teen world at the time.

Now, teens watch TikTok videos of other people playing video games… or videos of chubby chicks putting on makeup/cooking.

[quote]Don’t include the 90s (30 years ago) in the list of modern movies. Scream is a classic.

Scream is not that great after repeated viewings. In fact, the only truly good part of it is the opening Drew Barrymore scene. Same with Scream 2 and its opening sequence (the rest of the films are shit from start to finish). I stand with what I said previously -- peak slasher horror was '70s and '80s output - the classics. Everything from the '90s on is lacking, and as the decades pass and CGI is added into the mix, it just gets progressively worse. I'm hoping that one day someone gets it right. Set that shit in the '80s or something, where we wouldn't have to endure the annoying trope of people pulling out their smartphones or Googling every two seconds for starters.

I love slasher films, but I have zero interest in paying to see this. The trailers all looked so boring. The cast is bland as hell.

R35 AGAIN, that is called an OPINION. You continue stating your OPINIONS as facts.

Many don’t agree with you and Scream continues to be a fixture in pop culture. Go to school.

R34 false. IKWYDLS was the movie that made their movie careers take off. No one knew the two guys prior, JLH was only known for Party of Five and SMG was a soap star turned Buffy.

After this is when they started getting cast in movies.

Aww, look at the butthurt millennial at R37.

I’m with r37 only because r35 writes in a block of text.

Bro, no one’s reading that.

[quote]Bro, no one’s reading that.

R37 did, and the point remains. Bro.

You know, I thought SMG was so elegant and radiant in her cameo. She kind of has this Morgan Fairchild quality now.

Anne Hehe was horrible in the first movie. Wretched.

Debbie Salt’s reveal in Scream 2 is fantastic!

The beginning of Scream 3 is also terrific. Parker Posey is way overrated, as always, but I love the line, “I’m the real Gail Weathers.”

I like this except from Ebert's review:

[quote]That’s when one of them gets a note that says, “I know what you did last summer.” As they panic and try to find out who sent it–who knows what they did–the movie loses what marginal tension it has developed, and unwinds in a tedious series of obligatory scenes in which nonessential characters are murdered with a bloody hook wielded by the Fisherman, a macabre figure in a long slicker and a rubber rain hat.

[quote]“This is a fishing village,” one of the friends says. “Everybody has a slicker.” Yes, but not everybody wears it ashore, along with the hat, during steamy July weather. Only the Fisherman does. And since the movie doesn’t play fair with its Fisherman clues, we’re left with one of those infuriating endings in which (danger! plot spoiler ahead!) the murders were committed by none of the above.

This was hot garbage. It looked like a Netflix movie.