I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

  • 36% of critics liked it
    (42 reviews)

  • 49% of users liked it
    (421,388 ratings)

During the annual July 4th festivities in a North Carolina fishing town, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wins a local beauty contest and departs with her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Philippe) and pals Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.). On their way back home, Ray hits a fisherman… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Kevin Williamson
Genres
Horror
In Theaters
Oct 17, 1997 Wide
On DVD
Aug 7, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    ...competent but uninspired...

  • Richard Harrington, Washington Post

    A smart, sharply drawn genre film with a moral center and a solid cast.

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    ...fun, energetic and fairly scary.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    Teasing and taut, I Know What You Did Last Summer is a teen horror flick with a different kind of kick to it.

  • Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

    The payoff is less effective. It involves several teen-scream modules, such as the $1.98 Startle Effect; the Hand on the Shoulder; and the Is He Dead Yet? gambit.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Unknown H


    Yawn. So there's a group of teenagers, they kill someone, that someone comes back ... are you bored yet? Yeah me to. The classic mix of screaming beauties, testosterone riddled jocks and slightly outcast plain people running around convincing themselves that anything they do for… More

  • Martin S


    It wasn't that good.....but it wasn't bad eighter

  • Jeff "


    1996 onwards saw the great Teen horror boom made famous by Wes Craven's Scream. A year later, they decided to create this mess and basically using the template of Scream as guide on creating a new trend of hip and cool horror films. Well these "horror" films fail to… More

  • AJ V


    An average slasher film with a bunch of TV stars from the 90s. Really, it's nothing special, I think people only talk about it because of the title, I know I've made plenty of humorous remarks with it. Overall this movie has no surprises, it's just so-so.

  • Eric A


    Jennifer Love Hewitt is the only thing this movie has to offer. It's too similar to Scream as it was made a year after.

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