Four teens out for a night of fun are involved in a hit-and-run cover-up that then drives a wedge between their close bond. Most of us know the plot from the book, the movie, or maybe even a campfire tale growing up. The teens in the film are well-spoken and no dummies, but they aren’t self-aware enough to know the rules of the horror film like the young adults in Scream were. Whereas Scream had satire on the brain and worked that into something unforgettable in a way that only that particular film could, Williamson didn’t try to punch up his script for I Know What You Did Last Summer with the same self-referencing quips. Lucking out in the casting department by signing a roster of reasonably bankable stars and, more than anything, good actors, the film benefits from Williamson’s love of horror flicks of his youth and a desire to re-create a straight-up slasher film he could call his own. Yet early on you actually had some decent options to choose from and one of the best of the bunch that still holds up on repeat viewing today is 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer.Īdapted by Scream-scribe Kevin Williamson long before he sold his blockbuster franchise starter, the script for his modernized take on Lois Duncan’s 1973 popular YA novel was snatched up by Columbia Pictures. Many of these were rush jobs that deserved to fade into obscurity along with their forgettable, flash in the pan cast members.
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Though it may be starting another renaissance soon with remakes of films that were made during that fruitful period at the cinema, between 19 you’d be hard pressed to go several weeks without a carbon copy movie hitting your local theater. Review: You can thank 1996’s Scream for reinvigorating the largely dead teen slasher franchise that went toe up in the mid ’80s, at least for an extended period for the next decade. Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Ryan Phillippe, Anne Heche, Bridgette Wilson, Johnny Galecki, Muse Watson, Stuart Greer All in all, this remake is interesting in a film-school kind of way, the kind of unabashedly pretentious experiment that film scholars will dissect for decades to come, but as a movie in its own right, it’s a failure.Synopsis: Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town. This version is set in 1998 but its dialogue and character interactions are straight out of the 1960s, which adds to a disorienting vibe that never settles on a particular tone or atmosphere.
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The infamous shower scene is a downright mess in Van Sant’s version, with its narrative impact dulled by its inevitability and the atrocious stop-motion approach used by Van Sant, which draws attention to the act being committed instead of its significance to the movie’s plot. Vaughn doesn’t seem to have a handle on Bates as a character, playing him instead as a combination of quirks and ticks, while Heche is inscrutable and distant, which negates any audience involvement. After all, the novelty of seeing Hitchcock’s signature picture updated and in color tapers off rather quickly, and the movie’s central problem is exposed: It’s not its predictability nor its familiarity, nor is it the specter of the original, but instead it’s the egregious miscasting of Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates and Anne Heche as Marion Crane.
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Gus Van Sant’s notorious shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic is likely one of the most divisive movies made in the 1990s, but even its supporters will admit that it’s not exactly a thrilling narrative experience to sit through.