Movie Review

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Rated: R; Genres: Drama, Horror, Suspense; With: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (R) Written by Kevin Williamson, who penned the allusively witty, genre-bending script for Scream, this is nothing more than a slick version of the kind of gruesomely formulaic teen slasher film that Scream took off from. In a North Carolina fishing village, four high school graduates, out for a summer joyride, hit someone on the road and dump the body in the ocean, only to realize he's still alive. The following summer, they're haunted by a deranged killer. The story has more holes than the bodies do, but the shocks are efficient, and Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt knows how to scream with soul. B-

Originally posted Oct 31, 1997 Published in issue #403 Oct 31, 1997 Order article reprints
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