I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer Year: 2006 Director: Sylvain White Written by: Michael Weiss Threat: Demon Fisherman Weapon of Choice: Hook Based upon: none Color/B&W/3D: Colour Language: English Country of Origin: USA IMDb page:

Other movies in this series:
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Rish's Reviews
You'd have thought, considering my affection for the original, that I was the instigator of us checking this one out. But he was the picker in this particular occasion. Hence, the blame falls on his shoulders.
Set in Colorado (and shot in scenic Utah, apparently), IAKWYDLS tells of a new foursome of young people who make a tragic mistake and decide to cover it up. In this case, it's a prank gone wrong (just why it goes wrong is never explained . . . hmmm), that causes the death of their friend, the town sheriff's son. We join up with our two couples one year later and find out . . . gasp! . . . that someone knows what they did last summer. Someone in a hooded rain slicker, brandishing a lethal, familiar-looking hook.
Ho hum.
For some reason, I had very little patience with this film. It wasn't that it was bad (though it was certainly more bad than good), and it wasn't that it was poorly done (though you might say that), it's just that I didn't expect much from a direct-to-video sequel to a beloved film (by me, anyway) where none of the people involved in the original turns up.
I'll Always Know is bland, fairly scare-free, not very creative, and pretty pointless (though I did like the final shot of the film). Nobody was very likeable, but the movie wasn't fun either (which probably is an indication as to how difficult this sort of thing really is).
We spend a great deal of the movie trying to figure out who the fisherman is this time, and tyranist paused the disc once or twice to see if we had it figured out yet.
So, do I spoil it? Do I say nothing? Ah, frak it, I'll tell you: the killer is none of the many suspects. SOMEHOW, the killer is the same fisherman we so feared in the first two installments, only now an unstoppable, demonic force with red glowing eyes and goey brown blood.
Hey, I like demons. I'm all for them. My cousin is one. But I don't know if it's fair to do that to an audience. Plus, the revelation comes so damn late in the game that it could only feel like what it is: a setup for a potential line of undead fisherman movies.
And here comes the embarrassing part: I'd really like to see a couple of undead fisherman movies.
Posted: December 26, 2006

The tyranist's thoughts
Guilty as charged. It seemed like a massive oversight not to review this one quickly. After all, the original was one of the films that we were watching when this site came into existence.
I had hoped that they would do something original. Or that the story would be completely separate and possibly not informed at all by the original. It would have made the title a bad one, but I think it would have made a much stronger movie.
I like the scenery and the small-town feel of the setting. The actors weren't awful, but they weren't really what I would call good. Not that the script demanded it.
There were a couple of nice moments, but not really much else to recommend it.
I do have one big gripe with the movie, and that is to ask who the third girl on the DVD cover art is? She isn't in the movie. There are really only two girls and three boys in the movie along with a couple adults. Was it that they didn't think we would pick this up if it didn't have enough pictures of a some pretty young actress?
I think I'll hate them for that.
Posted: December 26, 2006

Total Skulls: 24

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc.
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?