Ill Always Know What You Did Last Summer Raincoat

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Some people really don't know how to permit things become...

I Know What You lot Did Last Summer (1997) is a horror/slasher picture show very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Lois Duncan, starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Honey Hewitt, and Ryan Phillippe. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson, who also wrote Scream (1996).

The tale starts with a party and the consumption of besides much booze, equally these stories tend to do, during a beach party after Helen Shivers (Gellar) wins the Croaker Canton Beauty Pageant. On the way dwelling, however, a drunken swerve of the friends' car leads to the death of a fisherman on the side of the road. The four determine to tell no one, and to forget the whole affair, throwing the torso into the ocean. But somebody saw, and the adjacent summer, they start to take vengeance, warning the four with an ominous message: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID Last Summer. Earlier long, people start dying, killed past a rain-slicker-clad figure wielding a claw...

The film was followed by two sequels: I Still Know What You Did Terminal Summer (1998) and the direct-to-video I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summertime (2006). In July 2019, it was appear that a television serial based on the films was being developed for Prime Video, with James Wan serving as a producer. The series premiered October 15, 2021.

For tropes applying to the original novel, see its own folio.

This movie contains examples of:

  • Adjusted Out: Barry's female parent features prominently in the volume, and Helen's parents have a couple of scenes besides. Helen's male parent just appears as an extra, and Barry's female parent is barely seen.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Julie is a redhead in the book, and brunette in the film.
  • Adaptation Expansion: A minor example. In the book, the grade divide with Ray coming from a poorer family unit didn't really inform the character as well much beyond internal malaise. In the film, this becomes office of his motivation for covering upward the accident - pointing out he doesn't have a rich family to help.
  • Accommodation Caption Extrication:
    • A pocket-size example. Elsa in the volume is an overweight bitter girl who'south jealous of Helen'due south beauty and easy success - she has to piece of work long hours and even so lives at dwelling house, while Helen gets a cushy task equally a conditions girl and is able to beget a dainty apartment. In the flick Elsa is just every bit cute, and Helen has a failed effort at becoming an extra and gets reduced to working in the family department store. So Elsa's jealousy and dislike of Helen isn't actually explained.
    • Elsa still living at home isn't actually given an explanation in the picture either. Helen's family unit in the book were struggling financially, with lots of children to look after. Elsa still lives at home to both give her family unit more than coin, and look after her younger siblings. Their younger siblings aren't seen or mentioned in the movie, and Elsa also has quite a nice job every bit the supervisor in their parents' department store - and then it'south unexplained why Elsa is nonetheless at abode (although we only come across her interact with Helen before she goes to bed, so it's possible she does alive somewhere else and happened to be at the house that night).
  • Accommodation Name Alter:
    • Helen and Elsa's concluding proper noun Rivers becomes Shivers.
    • The victim goes from David Gregg to David Egan.
    • David'due south sis goes from Megan to Missy.
  • Adaptational Bewitchery:
    • Elsa, Helen's sister, is described as very unattractive throughout the volume. In the moving-picture show, she's just as pretty as Helen is. Elsa was written as apparently-looking in the script; the director decided that if Helen is gorgeous, Elsa should be too.
    • Julie has a moment in the book where she notices her mother going gray-haired, and her hands looking very sometime. None of this is shown in the film, and her mother looks quite youthful.
  • Adaptational Badass:
    • In the book, Julie is knocked out while Ray fights the killer offscreen. In the film, she helps him fight the killer.
    • Helen likewise just lives in the volume considering the killer has gone to target Julie, with a Let'south Get Dangerous! moment of climbing out her flat window. Here she'due south able to fight the killer off multiple times simply ironically doesn't walk abroad from their final encounter.
  • Adaptational Intelligence:
    • In the moving-picture show Julie is said to take been an splendid educatee whose grades are slipping due to the trauma of the accident. It'southward the opposite in the book - where Julie was a slacker who had to really piece of work hard to improve her grades after the accident. Julie makes considerably less stupid mistakes than in the book; for instance, she sent anonymous flowers to the funeral there, which ended up getting her pegged as the culprit, and she was unknowingly dating the victim'south brother.
    • Helen arguably in the book was more naive, adjoining on ditzy sometimes (she's oblivious to Barry cheating on her). At the accident, she'due south at first trying to talk some sense into the boys (she's considering going to the police), doesn't hesitate to fire back at Barry with taunts and helps Julie effigy out some of the clues (in the book information technology was Ray who did this).
  • Adaptational Jerkass:
    • Elsa by extension of Helen's Adaptational Karma. Elsa in the book resents how easy Helen has everything, and has to work hard to support their big family. With Helen being a fallen dazzler queen and Elsa now her superior in the family business concern, she seems even nastier past comparison. And she'southward besides equally gorgeous as Helen, meaning she has no reason to be jealous of the latter's beauty.
    • The teens compared to how the accident goes from volume to film. In the book, they immediately go to detect a payphone to anonymously call the police. In the motion-picture show, they decide to dump the apparently dead body in the bounding main to comprehend it up.
  • Adaptational Karma:
    • Helen in the book suffers no negative consequences from the accident - and in fact gets a dainty chore equally the local weather condition daughter, making her able to afford a posh apartment (an impressive feat for a nineteen-year-one-time). In the flick all the same Helen's attempts at becoming an extra have failed, and she'southward reduced to working in her parents' department store. Also, she does autumn victim to the fisherman here, although that goes a lot farther than anyone wanted her to suffer.
    • Julie in a sense likewise. The book has her buckle downwards and better her school piece of work after the accident, resulting in a prestigious college acceptance letter of the alphabet to Smith, besides as a new fellow. In the picture, she's far more emotionally affected by the accident; her grades have plummeted and she's on her own, even barely in contact with her mother.
  • Adaptational Location Change: The novel is implied to take place in New United mexican states (there are mentions of Cibola National Wood and Sandia National Laboratories, which are located or headquartered in the country, respectively), only the film moves the action to N Carolina.
  • Adaptational Villainy: The victim of the accident in the volume was an innocent little male child. Not only did the victim in the film not actually die, he had just committed a murder himself.
  • Adaptational Wealth: The book says that Helen's family unit is fairly poor, with a lot of kids, and Elsa is still at domicile because her family needs the money. In the picture show, they ain a section store and seem to have a nice house. Helen is the contrary; she's able to afford an apartment of her own in the book, while she's however at abode in the motion-picture show. Ray also draws a comparison to the others having coin and connections.
  • Developed Fear: Helen's parents are subjected to a astringent, admitting off-screen, case of this. It'southward mentioned that they are worried about her and want her brought home after her Freak Out at during the parade and claiming Barry was killed. And then not only doesn't she get in home, but neither does their other girl who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The fact that their children besides Helen and Elsa may have been Adjusted Out just makes information technology worse.
  • Historic period Lift:
    • Barry is a few years older than the gang in the book. Helen is a year above Julie too, who is still in high school. The film makes all the characters the same historic period.
    • The victim in the book was a fiddling boy on a cycle. In the film, information technology's an adult.
    • The victim'southward sister is a teenager in the book, but is in her twenties in the film.
  • Alliterative Name: Applied to boats: Ray's boat is the Billy Blue while Ben Willis' is the Sweet Susie.
  • Apathetic Citizens: The people at the beauty contest hold Helen back and don't seem the least scrap concerned fifty-fifty though she's screaming her head off for someone to help Barry.
  • Asshole Victim: The fine details are upward for debate, but this is a slasher flick that actually attempts to justify all the diverse teenagers getting killed; a hit-and-run probably doesn't deserve a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, only it'due south not the usual innocent batch of campers either. Information technology'due south and then revealed that the man they hit had simply committed a murder himself, and didn't die when they dumped the torso in the sea.
  • Badass Longcoat: The fisherman's raincoat. It'south probably no coincidence that he dies when he'due south no longer wearing it.
  • Bait the Canis familiaris: Elsa'southward first line of dialogue is offer Helen a ride domicile afterwards the pageant, but she'south quick to insult her sister for deciding to stay out tardily, and this sets the tone for near of their later interactions.
  • Beauty Contest: Helen wins ane at the start of the film to become the 'Croaker Queen'. The next year, she rides in the parade and helps officiate the other contest.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: A justified example. The killer cuts off some of Helen'south hair while she's asleep, but she reappears for the pageant with information technology all tidied up. Naturally the killer wouldn't want to give her a reason to miss the parade. And something more farthermost would prompt the attention of her family unit, requiring her to go to the police.
  • Big Bad: The Fisherman, aka Ben Willis.
  • Big Blood brother Bully: Gender Flipped just Elsa spends most of her screen fourth dimension mocking or belittling Helen.
  • Black Spot: Julie receives a note saying "I know what you did last summer". A like notation existence constitute in David Egan's property tips her off that he wasn't the homo they hitting.
  • Blood from the Mouth: Officer Caporizo later on the Fisherman stabs him.
  • Bloodier and Gorier: The villain of the book I Know What You Did Concluding Summertime never successfully killed anyone, while he kills several in this version.
  • Bloodless Carnage: Almost. The film was originally shot with nigh no onscreen blood, simply that inverse when producer Erik Feig noted that with Elsa'south death, it would be medically incommunicable for there not to be blood. So that scene was reshot with a visual effect of blood splattering on glass.
  • Brainy Brunette: Julie more than manifestly in the moving-picture show than the volume - where she was a redhead who had to piece of work hard for her grades. She'southward also implied to be a bit of a feminist.
  • Tin can't Become Away with Nuthin': Barry and Helen are the ones who dump the torso in the river, and they're the ones who die.
  • Chase Scene: Helen gets quite a famous one that runs through a park, her families department shop, and finally ends in the narrow alleys behind the store.
  • Chekhov'south Gunman: Max initially just seems to exist to provide suspense about whether or non they'll get defenseless after the hit and run.
  • Composite Character:Ben Willis is a combination of the novel'southward two characters of Collingsworth Wilson (the person hunting the four leads) and David Gregg (the person who was run over in the volume).
  • Condensation Clue: Or peradventure Condensation Sequel Hook: the writing on the fogged-up shower stall glass at the end of the moving-picture show, Foreshadowing the 2d picture's title.
  • Nighttime Hugger-mugger: The striking and run that starts the plot.
  • Expiry past Accommodation: Nobody dies in the book. Helen and Barry are killed off, as is Helen's sister Elsa.
  • Disposing of a Body: The characters did it last summer.
  • Downer Ending: The moving-picture show ends with the Fisherman being yet alive and attacking Julie while she was showering at her college, seemingly killing her. This was Retconed in the sequel as a nightmare she had.
  • Expository Hairstyle Alter: Julie has curly pilus in the intro, only it is unkempt later the blow. Notably in the finale segment, it's curly once again.

    Buzzfeed : "You know Julie of a sudden cares about living over again, because her hair is more boisterous and curly."

  • Heart Awaken: The man that protagonists ran over does right subsequently Barry gets on front of his face underwater.
  • Fallen-on-Difficult-Times Job: Sort of. Helen is working in her family's section store after the Fourth dimension Skip, having claimed her motion to New York "didn't really work out" (she was planning to become an extra).
  • Fallen Princess: Helen appears to be such. She's implied to exist a popular girl at school, and wins the local beauty pageant at the start. There's also cheerleading memorabilia in her room. Only her plans to make information technology as an extra in New York neglect, she and Barry carve up up and she'southward reduced to working in a department store.
  • Fanservice:
    • Julie in a tight tank top she wears for the final third of the film and only a towel at the end.
    • Helen likewise walks around wearing hot pants in the second act.
    • Barry shirtless in a towel after showering.
    • Both male person leads get scenes in tight wife-beaters.
    • Helen's wearing apparel for the parade is also extremely flattering.
  • Last Daughter: Julie, who's a far more of an obvious Final Girl compared to her book self - she gets an Accommodation Dye-Task to become brunette, is said to exist an splendid pupil, and takes the moral loftier ground.
  • Foreshadowing: An early scene between Helen and Julie has the sometime talking most how important having good pilus is, and checking that hers is withal looking good. Elsa afterwards taunts her most how obsessed she is with her hair, non knowing the killer is in the closet, possibly fifty-fifty giving him the idea to attack her that manner.
  • Freudian Excuse: The killer is a man who lost his daughter.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: The Fisherman. A seemingly normal local human, he became a serial killer subsequently the loss of his daughter.
  • Genre Savvy: When the girls go to visit the family of the man they killed, Helen says "Jodie Foster tried this and a series killer answered the door." She besides says "Angela Lansbury e'er had a plan" - and she and Julie utilise Jodie and Angela as aliases with Missy immediately after.
  • The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Helen and Elsa, far more so than in the book. Elsa is more obviously the smart sis - in a prominent position at the family department store, more business savvy and she wears spectacles. Helen is the pretty sister (or rather, the prettier sister) naturally - having previously been a teen beauty queen and was planning to become an extra.
  • Head-Turning Beauty: Helen Shivers is a beauty queen, introduced winning a local pageant and her three friends (even Julie) gushing about her looks. She's also played by the beautiful Sarah Michelle Gellar, with gorgeous blonde Rapunzel Hair and perfect make-upwardly in every scene.
  • Hooks and Crooks: The killer carries a gaffing claw.
  • Horror Doesn't Settle for Elementary Tuesday: All 3 films accept place around the Quaternary of July.
  • Impromptu Tracheotomy: Max is killed when the Fisherman impales his throat with the gaff claw he took from him moments prior.
  • In Proper name Only: The original volume and the picture share but grapheme names and a striking-and-run that sets the plot in motion. Everything else is dark-and-mean solar day — the Duncan novel is a mystery/drama in which none of the main characters die, while the flick is a slasher.
  • Irony: When dumping the body, Barry says to pretend he'due south a serial killer and they're doing everyone a favour. Information technology turns out he's correct .
  • It Was Hither, I Swear!: Used repeatedly (and relentlessly). The most egregious instance is the dead body and 400 venereal stowed in the trunk of one grapheme, only to disappear equally suddenly. Not only does the body and crabs disappear inside minutes, but the trunk'southward carpeting is as well pristine clean.
  • Jerkass: The deputy, who openly disbelieves Helen and not in a respectful way.
  • Jerk Jock: Barry, but more then in the book. He was a football player and goes to higher on scholarship. In the movie he's only shown at the gym in one case.
  • Kid Detective: referenced but mostly averted when Helen and Julie go to the Egen'due south house and Helen nervously references Murder, She Wrote. They're besides a picayune older than nearly versions of this trope.
  • Meganekko: Helen'south sis Elsa is shown to be merely equally cute as her, and she also wears glasses when working in the shop.
  • Menacing Stroll: While going later on Helen, the Fisherman chooses to calmly stride after her while she's running abroad in panic.
  • Mistaken for Murderer: Julie wrongly accuses Ray of having been the murderer all forth.
  • Modesty Towel:
    • Barry covers himself in 1 showering in the gym's locker room.
    • Julie walks around in a towel in The Stinger while talking to Ray on the telephone and getting ready to shower. Just her shower is delayed when she sees the "I STILL KNOW" message written on the foggy door.
  • Moral Myopia: Ben's anger at losing his own daughter motivating his crimes feels weak and hypocritical when he's prepared to kill the Shivers sisters after seeing their father while sneaking through the firm and knowing he'd be causing some other family the same pain, especially given how Elsa was completely innocent of hitting him.
  • Nobody Hither but Us Statues: The Fisherman pretends to exist a mannequin in Helen's workplace to have a surprise attack on her later on she passes him.
  • Non Quite Dead: The Fisherman shows signs of move right before they dump the torso. It turns out he lived subsequently all.
  • Offscreen Teleportation: Max'due south body vanishes from the trunk of Julie'southward auto. Although given that she ran the rest of the way to Helen'south house, had to explicate what happened to the other two and and then walk back - information technology does give the killer some time to move it if he was following Julie from her firm. And if Helen's firm is further abroad than nosotros assume from when Julie gets out of the car. The killer however inexplicably appears out of nowhere to impale Helen when she escapes from the department store.
  • One-Hr Work Week: Helen is instantly able to exit her job at the department store to chase leads with Julie, presumably considering she'south working for her family unit (although her boss is her abusive sister Elsa).
  • The Oner: The opening credits happen over a very long helicopter shot over the body of water, going around the cliffs and finishing on David Egan.
  • Peekaboo Corpse: While trying to hide from the Fisherman inside his gunkhole, Julie discovers the bodies of Helen and Barry on ice.
  • Pick on Someone Your Ain Size: Intergender instance; the crazed fisherman is obsessed with killing Julie James and friends after they hit him with their car. He got better.
  • Pink Means Feminine: Helen is the more obvious Girly Girl of the two females, and her bedchamber is painted pinkish. She also has pink defunction and stake pink bedding.
  • Police Are Useless: The inept cop who dismisses Helen equally a hysteric and ends up getting hooked himself. Previously, the teens dismiss going to the police even though Ray was the sober driver, assuming they wouldn't believe he was driving.
  • Punk in the Trunk: Julie discovers the crab-covered body of Max in the trunk of her motorcar. Subsequently she brings her co-conspirators to see it, it has disappeared.
  • Red Herring:
    • When Julie tells Helen virtually the annotation, there are a couple of shots of Elsa looking at them. Elsa is also said to have been in David Egan'due south class at school. In the book Elsa is besides a suspect.
    • Max is initially assumed to be behind the notation, as the simply person the teens saw that night.
    • Missy is also introduced in a way that makes her seem similar she could exist a suspect too.
    • There's a mysterious figure known every bit "Baton Blue" who expressed his sympathies to Missy. This figure is revealed to exist Ray, making him another suspect right before the climax.
  • The Reveal:
    • The killer is Ben Willis (the guy the group actually hit) and not David Egan (who they thought they hit, and who Ben actually killed) or someone trying to avenge him.
    • Ray is "Billy Blue", the mysterious person who called Missy to express his sympathies.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Fisherman after he's left for dead.
  • Rule of Symbolism: The blow and cover-up symbolize the loss of innocence from babyhood to adulthood. The protagonists are teenagers graduating from high school, and the plot takes place after they've spent a year trying to live every bit adults. Helen notably has become a Fallen Princess, Julie was once a straight-A educatee whose grades are slipping, and Barry was one time the Big Man on Campus that ends up in the infirmary. The characters lamenting how they can't go back to how their lives were before the accident parallels how they can't get innocent again.
  • Running Over the Plot: What they did last summertime was run over a pedestrian walking on a coastal road and put the trunk in the water. The twist is that he didn't actually die, and he's back for revenge.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: Max, whose death was added in reshoots, later on filmmakers realized they needed to prove that the killer posed a threat.
  • Sassy Blackness Woman: Julie's college roommate Deb.

    "Get your white equally death, chalky corpse in that car now."

  • Schrödinger's Canon: A lot of stuff about the graphic symbol's families, such as Julie's mother having sensed something was wrong the night of the accident and Helen'south Centre Kid Syndrome, given that Elsa is the only of her siblings confirmed to exist in the flick.
  • Setting Update: The book was set in the 70s, and a plot signal was one character beingness a Vietnam veteran. The moving-picture show is updated to the 90s.
  • Sexy Discretion Shot: Ray and Julie make out at the embankment and she takes off her jacket. Ray asks, "Are you sure?" She nods, and they both fall on the sand kissing as the camera pans away.
  • Shirtless Scene: Barry gets one after taking a shower at a gym and coming out in a Modesty Towel where he finds his own notation from the Fisherman.
  • Slashers Adopt Blondes: Of the killer's targets, the blond Barry and Helen are killed while the night-haired Julie and Ray survive. Elsa is also killed, but merely because she'due south in the manner.
  • Spiritual Antithesis: While information technology was put into product cheers to Kevin Williamson scoring a big hitting with Scream, it has little in mutual with information technology beyond being a stylishly-shot whodunit teen slasher. Scream was a very self-aware Deconstructive Parody of the genre in which both the heroes and the killer were fully aware of and ruthlessly exploited slasher clichés, while this film is a far more straightforward and affectionate Genre Throwback.
  • The Stinger: The film closes with Julie back at college a yr later on, almost to take a shower when she sees the words "I STILL KNOW" written in the steam-covered door, seconds before The Fisherman smashes through the glass and rushes towards her.
  • Stranger Backside the Mask: The twist is that David Egan is in fact not the homo the teens hit with the car. It's really the man who murdered him - though this is foreshadowed before in the film.
  • Sunroof Shenanigans: The fatal machine blow that starts the plot happened because Barry was standing up in the machine's sunroof, acting foolish and distracting Ray from driving.
  • Time Skip: Subsequently the climax, the ending of the film happens "One year subsequently..."
  • Token Black Friend: Julie has a sassy blackness roommate in college called Deb.
  • Tomboy and Girly Daughter: Julie's more studious and career-oriented than tomboyish but Helen has the Girly Girl half of the dynamic down.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Downplayed. While Barry is still ambitious and violent, he becomes extremely protective of Helen after the blow. He rides on the parade bladder with her, and can be seen reassuring her that she looks good.
  • Traumatic Haircut: The killer cuts off some of Helen's hair while she's asleep. The next scene has her wearing a cap to hide it, but it's been tidied up past the time she rides in the parade.
  • True Blue Femininity: The wearing apparel that Helen wears in the Croaker Queen pageant is a light bluish. Very fitting for a feminine pageant queen.
  • Unexplained Emphasis: Anne Heche for some reason puts on a southern accent for her role as Missy. As we never hear her brother David speak, it's unclear why she has this voice. In the scene where Julie tries to explicate to Barry and Helen almost finding Max's torso in her car trunk, the automobile visibly has a N Carolina license plate, then it isn't inconceivable that the picture show takes identify in that land.
  • Villain Brawl: The Fisherman sure does pass up a lot of opportunities to kill those teens. Somewhat justified, every bit his intent is not only to kill them, but to make them squirm and exist afraid. Still, Willis' quest for revenge threatens to expose his murder of David Egan, which he would've been articulate of completely thanks to the teens.
  • We Used to Be Friends: After visiting Missy'southward house, Julie and Helen have this exchange in the car.

    Helen: What ever happened to us? We used to be all-time friends.
    Julie: We used to be a lot of things, Helen.


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