I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER

US, 1998, 100 minutes, Colour.
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer, Muse Watson, Bill Cobbs, Matthew Settle, Jennifer Esposito, John Hawkes.
Directed by Danny Cannon.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is an immediate sequel to the successful original. This time there is a new location, a new writer. However, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr appear again. They are again menaced by the mysterious fisherman, played by Muse Watson.

Julie and Ray meet again when Julie’s roommate at college gets free tickets to a resort. She goes with her boyfriend and Jennifer Love Hewitt takes a friend. While they are there, enjoying the life of the resort, the same menace appears – that the killer still knows what they did. It is a year later, he still wants his revenge.

Direction is by British Danny Cannon who made a number of interesting films including The Young Americans and Judge Dredd but who has spent years writing, directing and producing the CSI series for television.

1.The popularity of the original? Inevitability of a sequel? The quality of the sequel?

2.The similarities of plot? The characters? Variations on a theme? The murderer and his pursuit?

3.The focus on Julie, studying, her friendship with Karla? Karla and her character, friendship? Tyrell as her boyfriend? The winning of the tickets, the decision to go on the vacation? Taking Will as a friend?

4.The holiday, the lifestyle, relaxation? Intimations of trouble?

5.Ray, his arrival, supportive of Julie?

6.The murderer, his vengeance, his pursuit?

7.The characters on the island, Estes, Nancy and the bar? Humorous background to the serious themes?

8.The build-up to the climax, the confrontations, the violence? - All resolved? Or not?

9.The continued popularity of this kind of horror film with young characters?