With the stench of failure slowly peeling away after finishing the Paranormal Activity films, I decided to go with a 90’s slasher flick that was cheesy as hell, loaded with one of the all time big named casts in the history is horror, it was a perfect time to bring horror back. Scream brought it back in 96, by 97 this was a big hit.
So let’s tackle this cast, it’s brilliant, at least for it’s time. Sarah Michelle Gellar, I love her to this day, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddy Prinze Jr, Ryan Phillipe, Johnny Galecki, Anne Heche, and Bridgette Wilson, who you may not know by name, but she was the hot chick in Billy Madison. Admit it fellas, she was smoking hot in that movie.
So if you have been living under a rock, here’s how the story goes. the 4 big names were celebrating Sarah’s pageant win, and Ryan had too much to drink, causing Freddy to hit somebody while driving. In a panic, they assume the person to be dead, so instead of owning up to it like Hewitt wants to, they decide, let’s dump the body. Was they go to do that, the person is still alive and grabs Sarah’s tiara as they dump him. Fast thinking Ryan jumps in to snag the tiara so as not to leave evidence.
A year later, Jennifer gets a letter stating “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, which happens to be the name of the movie. Well, needless to say, the person is out for revenge. The acting is bad even for a slasher. the girls are stellar eye candy, and I’d guess the guys were for the girls back then, especially Johnny Galecki. Now, I kick back and watch this greatness, keeping in mind, it’s not great. The movie would have succeeded in the 80’s without the huge cast, but by the 90’s, horror was dying a slow torturous death, as if they was watching Paranormal Activity 5. This movie would kill it at the box office if it came out this year. Look at Cabin in the Woods and how popular that became with only 1 big name, a small appearance by Ripley, and the 2 awesome guys working the control room. I am not familiar enough with popular teens nowadays, but if you threw together 4 big name teen celebs and gave them an above average plot, it’d be huge.
This is so cliche ridden, which was a plague at the time of horror movies to some, but a lot of people seemed to forget, just like in an action flick, sometime you just want something you are familiar with. That’s what this movie bought, and it was fun. This movie supposedly took place in North Carolina, yet not a single Southern accent. Really, nobody?
OK, the movie is over. I question, why does Scream get like holy grail status, and this movie is somewhat forgotten? This movie is every bit as good and more star studded, better soundtracked, and has a better antagonist reason. Scream is awesome, that’s getting reviewed this year, but everybody loves Ghostface. How many people even remember his origin story, or who he was in part 2 or 3 or 4. Yeah, meanwhile, the Fisherman is simply that. He got hurt and left for dead. That is a better reason. Anyway, I have to give this movie a 7.7. I can’t go 8, it’s not what you may call brilliant, but it is extremely entertaining and the pacing was perfect. They didn’t waste your time with inane bullshit. They got in and out. I would recommend you take another viewing of this if you haven’t seen it in awhile. It has aged amazingly well. Please watch it.
I have to do 2 pics. Sarah will always hold a special place in my heart. She’s beautiful and there’s something about her.
Breasts Total
37 Bare breasts
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