{"id":11585,"date":"2006-09-05T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2020-12-31T01:40:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T06:40:03","slug":"ill-always-know-what-you-did-last-summer-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/ill-always-know-what-you-did-last-summer-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You figure in the world of cynical teenagers, technology, MTV, and the over saturation of slasher films, that the characters in this would be a little less horrified. Hell, they\u2019re all very astonished at the story of a masked killer with a hook who comes after teenagers. And the song goes: a group of teenagers, a prank that goes awry, one year later, they re-unite, and the killing starts. Funny thing is, whether it\u2019s Sarah Michelle Gellar, or some girl we\u2019ve never seen before, the characters here are still very interchangeable. I hated the first two films, so I wasn\u2019t keen on watching yet another sequel, and as I guessed it, \u201cI\u2019ll Always Know\u201d is basically just routine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an awful film, but it sure is lame and limp. The Gorton\u2019s Fisherman is no longer some disgruntled fisherman, or the son of some disgruntled fisherman. No, even better now, he\u2019s relegated to another Michael Myers carbon copy. He\u2019s silent, stealth, without a personality or identity, and ends up being more of an entity of vengeance. He\u2019s now an urban myth that frightens the folks of a seaside town in Anytown, USA, and then crashes a ski lodge we\u2019re forced to set down on for the last hour of the film. \u201cI\u2019ll Always Know\u201d is just a ninety minute sleepwalk through the same doldrums of direct to video horror. If you took out the title and inserted something like \u201cSaltwater Slasher,\u201d it\u2019d still basically be a really stupid slasher film that you\u2019ve seen played a million times. Director White tries in vain to add tension and atmosphere, and he does that through jump scares that are very pathetic. Everything makes an explosion, and everything has a resonance of a freight train.<\/p>\n

Doors don\u2019t open, they burst! Radios don\u2019t turn on, they blast! People don\u2019t knock, they bash their fists! People don\u2019t arrive, they pop up with a horrible crash! I wish I had that ability. White\u2019s efforts to inject fright into a boring waste of celluloid are desperate, and you can almost hear White saying \u201cWhen this guy shows up add a loud crash. That will get them frightened.\u201d White never knows how to add or balance tension, or sheer suspense, and instead relies on horribly redundant devices with the twang of the score, and enlisting red herrings that we know will all end up being just dry exercises in mystery. At one point, just to tease us, a character says \u201cI Know What you Did Last Summer\u201d when he easily could have said \u201cI know what happened last summer.\u201d But then, where would the fun be in that? Oh, and I never understood why so many red herrings appear, when the Gorton\u2019s Fisherman never actually turns out to secretly be any of the characters.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the point of alluding that someone is behind this if it never actually turns out to be one of the characters? The entirety of the story is devoted to our characters yammering back and forth about what happened, and our killer just appearing and taunting his victims. In one scene, our killer has the main character Amber up in a lift and has her perfectly cornered, and does nothing but smash the window exposing his hook to her. He disappears only to\u2014you guessed it\u2014re-appear and face off with her in the climax. Not surprisingly, \u201cI\u2019ll Always Know\u201d can\u2019t even be a competent slasher. Alas, the series that was never competent enough to warrant theatrical releases in the first place, is now a direct to video franchise sans the gore, flash, camp, and appeal its predecessors possessed. It\u2019s a very boring, forgettable horror film now forced to have the infamy of being a horrible sequel.<\/p>\n

Somebody kill the Gorton\u2019s Fisherman, already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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