I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER REVIEW

We on day 3 of the 31 days of horror and today Uncle Benny has a special review for you. Today I focus on “I know what you did last summer.”
Okay so this movie fucking blows. I’m saying this in my Conor voice but dammit I just can’t fucking turn away. It’s a guilty pleasure movie. Nostalgia wins.
I’ve seen better acting from porno movies on xvideos. They make those “I’ve come to fix your plumbing” porn scenes look like academy award material. The only good performance in this movie was from Sarah Michelle Gellar. She stole the show acting wise and she should’ve been the lead character in my opinion. I love Jennifer Love Hewitt but it’s a no from me big dawg. She is top shelf milk right though. I can’t even drink milk cause I would possibly shit myself but I’d take that chance with Jennifer Love Hewitt for sure. The 90’s version Jennifer and the 2025 thicker than Dame Dash tax debt version Jennifer.
This movie is about holding white privilege accountable. 4 teenagers go out and party and accidentally hit a man with their car and kills him. They discard the body and make a promise to never speak of the night again. A year goes by and all 4 of the teenagers are being stalked with clues about what they did last summer. A game of cat and mouse begins.
Now we all know if this was reality. Those 4 white kids would’ve reported what they did, beat a manslaughter charge, got probation and would’ve been at a Morgan Wallen concert drunk off 80 beers by the end of it all. This is a movie so these thugs must pay for what they did last summer.
I know I said Sarah only showed up acting wise but I gotta give Ryan Phillippe his props cause he did play the asshole “Barry” really well. I never wanted to give a character a wedgie so bad in my life. He was the typical rich kid that takes boxing classes, dances off beat to Travis Scott songs and says “bro” every 2 seconds. He was just an absolute chad in this movie. Freddie Prinze Jr plays “Ray” a beta soy boy bitch. He was supposed to be the strong honorable type but came off as a cuck.
Jennifer Love Hewitt plays “Julie” and I shit you not I never seen a more useless main character in my life. When you watch the finale of this movie this fucking genius did nothing but scream. She did not help anyone and did not inflict damage to the villain. Again I do not understand why she was the main character. Sarah’s character “Helen” was better and had one of the best chase scenes in the film. Actually the scene was the best scene in the movie in general. Sarah Michelle Gellar should have been the lead character in this movie. I’m going to assume that Jennifer Love Hewitt had the bigger name because of the show “Party of Five” so that’s why they chose her for the part over Sarah.
If you look at the characters Julie and Helen, Helen is a beauty queen who sees life as an easy path because of her looks and she is humbled by failure when she goes to New York to continue modeling and pageant work and ends up back in her hometown working in a clothing store. Julie just goes to college and has an overprotective mom. Fucking boring.
I will give the characters this, they’re not perfect and they go through failures. Usually in teen slasher films the teens are rich with no worries in the world. In this movie they all have dreams and those dreams do not work out and then they have a killer chasing them on top of that.
The story overall is a story of accountability and morality. What would you do if you were in the position of these teens? Would you turn yourself in? Would you just drive off? Would you try to cover it up yourself? I don’t think any teenager would’ve done the right thing because teenagers are fucking dumb. We see the consequences of their actions in the most extreme way imaginable.
The majority of the movie is a mystery so the characters have to do detective work and figure out who is stalking them and who could’ve seen what they did last summer. It keeps the movie at a solid pace.
I wish there was more gore in this movie. The kills are trash in this film. The killer being based on a fisherman means there should’ve been some crazy creative kills in this one. It was very vanilla. I think the mystery aspect was more entertaining than the kills.
Overall did this movie age well? No. Is it watchable? Yes. It pretty well directed and paced but I think you will have a good laugh watching I know what you did last summer and be thoroughly entertained.
Love, Benny
