It’s not bad, if you take it for what it is, one of those movies where car windows are easily broken and pieces of glass don’t hurt, but most importantly where the villain can teleport, he can go everywhere and never be seen, he can enter female dorms, carry dead bodies around, walk around armed, deliver messages by hand, and nobody ever sees him or hears him.
That kind of story.
Plot:
Helen is elected Croaker Queen, they go the the beach to party. Helen plans to go to New York and become an actress and then marry Barry and live happily ever after. Julie will go to college in Boston, but hopes her relationship with Ray will survive the distance. Barry drinks a lot, he’s totally drunk so they don’t let him drive.Ray does, but Barry just can’t stop being an idiot and starts moving, being obnoxious, and he drops his bottle of whiskey making Ray lose his focus on the road. When they hit something, they stop and find a man covered in blood. Ray checks his pulse and thinks he’s dead, so Barry yells and yells until they stop talking about calling the police and start agreeing with his plan to get rid of the body so nobody will know and their lives will not be ruined. The boys carry him but Ray can’t bring himself to throw him into the water so Helen helps Barry. The man now moves and grabs Helen’s crown/tiara so Barry swims to get it back, and sees the man open his eyes. Still, he goes out, says nothing, and they act like the man’s dead and promise never to speak about it again.
One year later, things are not as they had hoped before the ‘accident’. Helen is working in her family’s shop, run by her sister Elsa. Julie is at College but not doing well and Ray is a fisherman. Julie comes home to find a hand-delivered letter: “I know what you did last summer”.
She hurries to talk to Helen, and together they go to Barry’s house. He’s not any better than he ever was, no. Barry thinks it must be Max because that night he drove that way and saw them there. So Barry confronts him and leaves. The Fisherman with the hook kills Max (for whatever reason…) then he enters Helen’s house and cuts her hair during the night. And yet in the morning (after telling the other guys about it) she appears at the Parade with a new haircut, perfect as always.
Julie finds Max’s body and lots of alive crabs in the trunk of her car, but it’s all gone when Barry and Helen come to see.
He was very quick in cleaning it all up…
Next, Barry is killed and Helen starts screaming because she saw it, but since there’s no body when the cop takes a look (no big body, no, but he didn’t notice the dripping blood… what a brilliant cop…) he does not believe her. He puts her in the police car and drives away, but stops for a man who appears to have trouble with his car. It’s the Fisherman, of course, and he kills the cop.
Helen breaks the window with her feet, exits the car and runs. She reaches her shop and Elsa lets her in, but they’re very slow in closeing the back door, so he’s already inside and he kills Elsa. There’s a bit of escaping and running, but eventually he kills her too.
Julie at first thought that the Fisherman was David Egan, so she talked to his sister to find out if someone connected to him might be seeking revenge, but when she goes back to talk to Melissa, she realises that she was wrong. The Fisherman is Susie’s father.
She died in a car accident and David felt responsible. Melissa thinks he killed himself because of it, but it’s almost certain that he was killed by Susie’s father too.
Now Julie tries to warn the others, but can’t find helen (of course not) so she goes to Ray.
Ray never told them that he had gone to meet Melissa months ago, and now when Julie discovers it she gets the stupid idea that it’s all Ray’s doing, so she runs away and Ray goes after her. A man stops him and tells her to go on his boat… and she does!!!
Can you believe that???
She does!!!
And of course she finds pictures and newspaper bits that prove he’s the Fisherman. The boat is moving an it’s dark, yes, but she can see Ray and she has a murderer on the same boat, wouldn’t it be better to jump off the boat and swim away, as much underwater as possible, since she’s still close?
No, she stays on the boat, and Ray will join her, and it’s a long long battle. She also finds Barry and Helen’s bodies in the ice. But at the end Ray and Julie come out of it alive, talk to each other and resume their relationship, much lighter now that they know they never killed anybody (… still… oh well)
The police searches the boat but can only find his severed hand and the hook, but no bodies. So it’s no surprise that a year later she finds a message on her shower: “I still know” and then ‘someone’ attacks her.
It ends there, no more details, so it’s a very open ending, it could mean anything.
Maybe he entered the girls dorm unnoticed or maybe she’s allucinating after such a traumatic experience, especially since the letter had already brought it all back… who knows…
Well, if you’ve watched the next movie, you know :-p
Characters - actors
Julie James is Jennifer Love Hewitt
Helen Shivers is Sarah Michelle Gellar
Barry Cox is Ryan Philippe
Ray Bronson is Freddie Prinze Jr
Max is Johnny Galecki
Benjmin Willis/Fisherman is Muse Watson
Elsa Shivers is Bridgette Wilson
Melissa Egan is Anne Heche
ITA So cosa hai fatto
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