I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1998 slasher film and sequel to the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer. The screenplay was written by Trey Callaway, based on characters originally created in a popular novel by Lois Duncan. Callaway's script was published in an edited "young adult" format, leaving all descriptions of violence but omitting the harsher language. The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer, and Freddie Prinze, Jr.. The film also include cameo appearances by Jeffrey Combs, Jennifer Esposito, Bill Cobbs, and an uncredited Jack Black. On August 15, 2006, Columbia Pictures released I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer as a straight-to-video sequel to the film. The Blu-Ray version of the movie was released on July 14, 2009.
Plot
In I Know What You Did Last Summer, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) had just spent a harrowing summer running for her life and dealing with the brutal murders of her high school friends by a vengeful fisherman named Ben Willis. One year later, Julie has fled her hometown to attend college in Boston and leave the painful memories behind her (she mentions that the cliffhanger ending of I Know What You Did Last Summer was a nightmare of hers). Karla Wilson (Brandy Norwood), Julie's spunky friend and roommate, wins an all-expenses-paid Bahamas vacation for four on the Fourth of July weekend, providing she can name the capital of Brazil. She answers "Rio", and is told that she is correct. Julie wants to invite her boyfriend Ray on the trip, but he declines, hurt by her refusal to visit him in Southport, where last summer's murders took place.
Thus, Julie, Karla, Karla's boyfriend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer) and their new friend Will Benson (Matthew Settle) head to the Bahamas. When they get there, they find that the other hotel guests are leaving because hurricane season has begun. Soon several murders occur at the resort and Julie is forced to tell the others about her past. Suspicion falls on the voodoo-practicing porter Estes (Bill Cobbs), who is trying to protect them. It is revealed that the vacation was arranged especially for Julie, and Karla hadn't "won" anything because she'd incorrectly answered the question (the capital of Brazil is Brasília). Estes leads them to a graveyard site where Ben Willis' family is buried and there is one tombstone that has Julie's name and the years written on it in blood with an open hole, where Ben plans to dump her body in after he kills her. It turns out that another person of the Willis family is alive: Will Benson is in fact Ben Willis' son and he drags Julie away from the others after killing Estes and Tyrell. Will takes her to his family's graveyard and introduces her to his father. She hadn't known Will was related to Ben. The survivors attempt to hide in a small building, but this does not work.
Ray arrives just as Ben catches up with Julie and Will. In the fight, Ben accidentally stabs his son with his hook and is shot with Ray's gun several times by Julie and falls into an empty grave. The Coast Guard arrives, rescuing Ray, Julie and Karla. In the last scene, Ray and Julie are in their newly-purchased house. As Julie enters her bedroom and sits down on the bed, she looks in the mirror leaning against the bottom part of her wall, and notices the fisherman under her bed. The film ends with Ben Willis grabbing Julie, leaving the situation ambiguous.
In the sequel film, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, it is implied that Julie and Ray were killed by an evil entity of Ben Willis.
Cast
Production
While the film is set in The Bahamas, it was actually shot at: El Tecuan Marina Resort Costalagree, in Jalisco, Mexico; Los Angeles, California; and Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.
Reception
The sequel made a gross $16.5 million at 2,443 theaters during its opening weekend. Unlike the original, the sequel opened at number two at the box office and dropped to number five only a week later. At the end of its fifteen week run, the film grossed $40,002,112 in the United States.[4] The film grossed $84,002,112 worldwide according to IMDb.
The film got less positive reviews from critics than the original. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer has an overall rating of 7% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to a rating of 38% for its predecessor, with Liam Lacey calling it "A lazy, hasty effort that offers little beyond a few jack-in-the-box startles and a high body count" while Paul Tatara said "It's not a bad film for what it is". It also has a 21 score on Metacritic compared to 52 for the original. The highest review score on Metacritic was 60 which came from Variety, who said "Purists will find the pic's obviousness disappointing, but there's no question that the film delivers a sufficient shock quotient to satisfy its youthful target audience". The worst review score was 0 out of 100 from Austin Chronicle who remarked "You want REAL terror? If this second outing proves profitable, we'll be looking at Yet Again I Recall the Summer Before the Summer Before Last. Now that's scary."
References
Budget and Gross Proof
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