(“This is your future, Julie,” Barry screams at her.) Helen then goes off to New York for her show-biz career, and Julie heads for college, but by the next summer they're back home again, pale, chastened and racked by guilt. They're afraid to go to the police and risk reckless manslaughter charges. In a panic, they dump him into the sea, even though he is not quite dead. And then, driving home, they strike a shadowy figure walking in the road. They build a bonfire on the beach and debate the old urban legend about the teenage couple who found the bloody hook embedded in their car door. Barry is a jerk who likes to get in fights and drive while drunk (“Can you say `alcoholic'?” Julie asks him). (The reference is to a fish, but the pun is intended, I fear.) Blinking back tears of joy, she announces her plans: “Through Art, I shall serve my country.” We meet her friends: her obnoxious, rich boyfriend Barry ( Ryan Phillippe) her brainy best friend, Julie ( Jennifer Love Hewitt), and Julie's boyfriend Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.).
(Christmas and Graduation Day are also popular, although Thanksgiving now seems reserved for movies about dysfunctional families.) In a small North Carolina town, a beauty pageant ends with Helen (Sarah Michelle Geller) being crowned the Croaker Queen. Like so many horror films, this one is set on a national holiday-the Fourth of July.
The shot leads us to anticipate dread, horror and atmospheric gloominess, but, alas, it is not to be. “I Know What You Did Last Summer” begins dramatically, with the camera swooping high above a dark and stormy sea, and then circling until it reveals a lonely figure sitting on a cliff overlooking the surf. The best shot in this film is the first one.
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