I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Danny Cannon, 1998)

[SicCoyote]

Well here's one people may disagree with
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Now at the time of release I kept away from 'I Know' because it was a big mainstream reaction to Scream being such a success. But when I finally watched it a few Halloweens ago I actually found it wasn't that bad, in fact it was quite good.

Now I kept away from 'I Still Know' because everyone said it was crap, but tonight I decided I would take my dvd of 'I Still Know' off the shelf and see if I would echo what I had read from many other reviewers. To my surprise I am not going to.

The film starts off with Julie(Jennifer) confessing about what happened the summer before last and last summer(the one where the last movie happened) pretty much to help everyone who hadn't seen the first one catch up on what happened in the first one in a very brief way. This turns out to be a dream one of many our heroine has been having since the first film. Then we are introduced to her new friends and updated how she's getting on with Ray(Freddie Prinze) from the first film. She wants to distance herself from him because of the past, so her friend wants to hook her up with some other guy, so a load of stuff happens including winning a trip to the Bahamas and they head off on holiday where they are greated by more of our supporting characters including a small role by Jack Black, the porter played by Bill Cobbs, and drum roll, Jeffrey Combs as the grumpy hotel manager.

Now if this seems like quite a bit of description without having got to the killing well yes it is, that's one of the flaws with the movie it seems to go for a long time before anything really starts to happen and you kind of forget you're watching a horror movie. But it doesn't drag, apart from some lightly annoying teen drama and a couple of RnB songs so it's not that much of a fault. That's the problem with Horror Sequels, usually you've killed off all but a couple of your characters from the original movie so you have to introduce and build up a whole new load of hook fodder.

Any way, after a couple too many false scares for my liking the film builds up pace a storm begins over the island and the killings start racking up. There's some good scares even if most of the kills are very well signposted for the experienced. There's a decent amount of gore but only as much as you would expect in a teen slasher. The plot is nice and convoluted but not too many leaps of logic(although running away when he's got his arm through a door and you have an axe does seem a bit stupid).

The ending I was very pleased with and I actually really liked the 'twist' which I won't go into, but I really didn't see it coming.
(Oh I don't mean the extremely Cliche final shot of the movie I saw that coming a mile away)

So as far as Teen Slashers go I thought this was actually a very good one even it felt like it was very much aimed to appeal to the female teen demographic with all it's pretty boy actors and the absence of female nudity. But there's plenty for the rest of us to enjoy if you accept those things.
Rather silly but well produced teen slasher that's a good slice of 90s fun.
7/10

[Rissos]

Got to disagree with you here Sic. I thought the whole thing was a joke. Possible spoilers ahead, although seeing as the film is ten years old, I'm not that concerned:

In particular I thought that, even though the education system in many countries is abysmal to say the least, surely a sizeable proportion of the audience would spot the error made during the phone call near the beginning, and therefore know the whole thing is a set up. In poarticular, we are asked to believe that somebody studying Politics would get the question wrong!

Ok, rant over. Apart from that, there were some humerous charachters, but again, everthing is brought crashing down with the usual disappearing bodies and repetition of the first movie.
3/10

[SicCoyote]

I argued the point about the Brazil question with someone else.

When I was watching it, I couldn't think of any other cities in Brasil except Rio, but still thought, that's not the right answer, is it?(it used to be up till 1960)

Just cause you've studied something in college doesn't mean you know all about it, cough dpi cough. Plus they're fictional.

But then, what does it matter, it's a set-up, yes, but why and by whom?

Anyway point is it doesn't matter if you noticed or not, it's a horror movie, our group of teens strangely win a trip to the Bahamas, of cause it's a set up.

Spoilers remain no matter what ages the film is.

[Wayne]

I give "still Know" and "I'll always know" 5 out of 10 to be honest. I for one don't automatically dislike mainstream, just a big chunk of it. I have all three films and the first one is OK but I think the sequels aren't as good.