The nineties brought new life to the slasher sub-genre, how many of these films were made around this time, they were about ten a penny and none of them carried any weighty emphasis, you could be forgiven for mistaking one for another. Four teenagers, a reason, and a murdering fisherman (really a fisherman of all things?) I guess so considering the film's location is a fishing village. The plot is painfully simple and follows the same format as any slasher film, need I have to recite this?Typical teenage fare when it came to the acting, not what you'd call particularly great..., everyone's favourite eye candy from the nineties was there, Sarah Michelle Gellar, as was Leonard from The Big Bang Theory, playing the weedy Max (Johnny Galecki).Indeed there are a number of jump scares but other than that the film wasn't the slightest bit scary, a better way to describe it would be "lame". If you like slasher movies I suppose there's something in it for you, but if you're not a fan of them, you might struggle to sit through this film, it may just annoy you instead.

I remember seein this in '97 in Sterling theater, South Mumbai with my friends. Revisited this recently on a DVD. This is writer Kevin Williamson's follow up to the successful Scream. So expectations were high. The plot - After their high school graduation, four friends head off to the beach but on the way home they accidentally hit n kill someone. To avoid police problems, they decide to throw him into the water and promise each other that they will never discuss that incident ever. One year later they start getting messages from somebody who knows what happened. Later they are stalked by a rain-coat wearing mystery man who uses a big hook. The performances from Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. were all decent. Director Jim Gillespie (Joy ride) did a good job in creating enuff suspense n tension. The ending wasn't predictable. The killer in a raincoat with a hook was an effective n intimidating one. Although the body count is surprisingly low, the tension was enuff. One of the most memorable n tension filled scene is the scene in the alley, with Gellar jus ten feet away from a musical parade/safety n the killer chasing her. The second one is the car in a wooded lane in broad daylight parked outside Anne Heches house. Yeah u heard right. Heche in a small role.

Back in the late 1990s, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was a phenomenon. I remember it being advertised up the wazoo, and then catching it on late night cable some time later and liking it. Unfortunately, a recent viewing proved that this film has aged terribly (if it ever could have been considered "good" in the first place).The plot of this movie is simple: Four stereotypical teens are partying the Fourth of July before going off to college. The "good girl" (Jennifer Love Hewitt), her All-American boyfriend (Freddie Prinze Jr.), the beauty queen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and the hot-head jock (Ryan Phillipe). While driving home on a windy mountain road, their car hits a figure in a rain-slicker. They make the decision to dump his body in the lake to avoid a police investigation. Fast-forward a year later, and all of a sudden a similarly slickered figure begins hunting the four down one by one.This movie is a mess from beginning to end. It does start with a kernel of a decent idea, but even at best it is three-star buffoonery. The characters are not nearly developed enough to make viewers care about them, and the plot is asinine even by horror film standards. By the end, it is a one-star train wreck.The reason this film gets such "strong press" is because it does tap into a sense of 1990s nostalgia. All the main four principles were huge '90s stars, so it was kind of a "perfect storm" of popularity. This is the kind of movie that tweens/teens saw to gush over the "dreamy" guys and the "hot" girls. Plot/character development were an afterthought. This film was meant (from what I have read, and it makes sense) to capitalize on the popularity of "Scream".The truly sad part? This flick had some potential. Those main four are all pretty decent actors, but there is just no material to work with here. Again, a film made too hastily to capitalize on box- office success. It did manage to make quite a name for itself, but that luster wears off rather quickly as soon as you pop it in and press "PLAY".

Kevin Williamson, hot off of the success of his screenplay for Wes Craven's Scream, here adapted the Lois Duncan novel with mixed results.A bunch of pretty teenagers in a coastal fishing town run over a man in the road and try to cover it up. Not a wise move at the best of times, even more so now as the victim, a hook wielding fisherman, is coming to get them.And that's pretty much it. Williamson adds some humour into the play, while director Jim Gillespie plays his shock tactics well and keeps the pretty young cast annoying enough for us to want to see the fisherman guy enact revenge.It sadly gets away from itself in the last quarter once the stalker is revealed, and in truth there's very little imagination gone into the whole pic. But it's a decent night in with beer and popcorn for those after a short sharp shock type horror. 6/10