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33. I Know What You Did Last Summer

Inviso - 7
Charon - 17
Johnbobb - 25
Scarlet - 29
Genny - 30
Karo - 30
Snake - 38
JONA - 40
KBM - 40

Inviso - One of the best things a slasher film can do is craft a cast of characters so awful that youre cheering for the villain to cut them to pieces. IKWYDLS manages to pull this sort of cast together, with volatile asshole Ryan Phillippe, arrogant beauty queen Sarah Michelle Gellar, doofy dumbass Freddie Prinze Jr., and stuck-up know-it-all Jennifer Love Hewitt. But even better, this isnt a case of a group of dumb teens getting stalked at random. No, these kids run a guy over with their car and dump his body to hide the accident. Its no wonder the guy doesnt die and comes back to kill them. The pacing is great, with the killer opting to psyche them out first, rather than going for the kills immediately, and the end result is an intense series of kill sequences and chases that just feel awesome overall. This is just a really solid slasher flick, and I enjoyed it.

Charon - Easy to count among Scream cash-in's, this film features a talented cast of young actors who'd go on to major success and a plot that's plenty memorable. This movie is set in a real-life style situation, where you're forced to make a quick decision that will impact the rest of your life. To me, this movie was always more than just a Scream knock-off. The suspense is good, the killer isn't who you'll guess at first and while he may not be quite on the level of a lot of recurring antagonists on this list, the Fisherman to me is a fairly good villain even if his motive ends up pretty simple. It's just a fun film to me.

Johnbobb - This is one of the best examples of horror that's competent without really being GOOD. It's got suspense, it's decently shot, the set pieces are nicely varied. So why is it that I find this film ultimately forgettable? Maybe the bland characterization; very few horror films fit the main teen horror tropes as neatly as this one does, with the nice girl, the bad boy, the beauty and literally just "the other guy." Maybe it's the villain, who I imagine most of the people ranking won't remember the name of by the time the rankings are up, despite the fact that finding the identity is so central to the plot. It feels like a training video on how to make a horror movie; it's good enough at what it does but doesn't have enough of an identity of its own.

Scarlet - In another attempt to create a 90s version of the Brat Pack, a surprisingly loaded cast is handed the singularly most generic teen slasher script ever unimagined by a screenwriter. Can Iron Bull, Buffy, the chick from an LFO video and Shooter salvage this flan of a film? Nope. And this failed Brat Pack reboot would slink into obscurity eventually.
Rating: 25/100

Genny - I'll be honest I never was too wild about I Know What You Did Last Summer. Even as a kid I thought Scream pulled off the whole 90s mystery/slasher horror thing a helluva lot better and this latest rewatch did nothing to change my mind. It's campy and fun, but also chokful of inescapable clichs, and it does nothing truly clever enough to warrant two sequels. Don't believe the hype, it's 6/10 at best.
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