A.V. Club
The characters are never really more than stereotypes... but as the body count begins to mount, you feel their terror build.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer".
1997Rating: 18100 minsUSA
Horror
I Know What You Did Last Summer / Reviews
The Washington Post
A smart, sharply drawn genre film with a moral centre and a solid cast.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Once the setup is in place, the picture degenerates into a formula slasher.
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Time Out
This crude slasher movie... fails to spice up the old recipe and is far too sparing with the basic ingredient - the gruesome slaughter of nauseating American teenagers by a terrifying killer.
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Variety
Combining familiar elements from horror staples and a few novel twists, I Know What You Did Last Summer is a polished genre piece with superior fright elements...
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Empire Magazine
Until it gives up at the two thirds mark, this is a decent companion piece to Scream, but the final act needs to be taken to with a meathook.
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The New York Times
Though it flies in the face of credibility and becomes downright silly by its end, I Know What You Did Last Summer knows its way around the rules of the popular horror-film genre
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Roger Ebert
My bet is that (scriptwriter Kevin Williamson) hauled this one out of the bottom drawer after Scream passed the $100 million mark.
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