I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a horror film first released in 1997. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Anne Heche. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson based on a popular novel written for teenagers by Lois Duncan. The film was followed by two sequels, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer which was released theatrically in 1998 and I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer which went Direct-to-DVD on August 15th, 2006.

Plot

A group of four teenagers -- Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt), prom queen Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), and angry jock Barry William Cox (Ryan Phillipe) -- accidentally run over a man with Barry's car while partying the summer after their senior year of high school. Barry convinces the others to help him dispose of the body rather than report the incident, but at the end of her first year of college, Julie receives a mysterious letter stating, "I know what you did last summer". Upon her return to her home town, she quickly learns that Barry, Helen, and Ray have received similar notes, leading to fears of blackmail, especially from the already paranoid Barry. Soon, the four of them are stalked by their mysterious, raincoat-clad blackmailer -- who has yet to make any demands. Julie and Helen investigate and meet Missy Egan (Anne Heche), the sister of the man they killed. Meanwhile, the blackmailer begins to get violent, assaulting Barry with his own car. This turns out to be just the first of many physical threats; the blackmailer begins to terrorize and eventually kill off the four friends and everyone they know.

Deaths

David Egan: Presumably pushed off a cliff into the water
Max: Hooked through the mouth and pulled over an oven
Barry: Hooked in the chest and stomach
Police Officer: Hooked pulled up stomach
Elsa: Throat slashed with the hook
Helen: Hooked to death by the killer

Subsequent Careers

After the film's release, Prinze and Hewitt emerged as the two most popular young stars in the country. Prinze went on to do a string of romantic comedies aimed at the teenage market. The film was followed by two sequels, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer which was released in 1998 and I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer which went straight to DVD August 15th. Hewitt's career initially floundered in the late 1990s after a poorly reviewed television biography of Audrey Hepburn and an ill-fated 1999 television series. However, at the turn of the millennium, she rose to fame as a actress, working in movies alongside Jackie Chan, and most recently, receiving a starring role in the hit CBS Television Show Ghost Whisperer. Meanwhile, Gellar's role in the movie, alongside starring on her TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, began a long career of horror for the actress. She furthered her horror career by appearing later that year in Scream 2. She would later go on to star in 2004's The Grudge and will appear in its upcoming sequel The Grudge 2 (October 2006). She will also star in the upcoming horror thriller The Return.

Gellar and Prinze would later marry. Gellar denied her interest in Prinze began when they met on the set of this film. Prinze was romantically involved with another woman at the time. On the David Letterman Show, Prinze joked about his first date with Gellar. According to him, their first date was the occasion during which he felt that he could have sex with her. Letterman retorted that if that was what a first date was, he didn't think he'd ever been on a date.

Prinze and Gellar later costarred as Fred and Daphne on the movie Scooby Doo.

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Plot

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