@@natsohigh5552 she wasn’t an airhead. She put up way more of a fight than Julie and had way more character. Barry and Helen should’ve lived not Julie and Ray
Weird story I had been talking to the author about coming on my show and we traded emails back and forth untill she unfortunately died when she was found in her kitchen on the floor dead from a stroke or heart attack. I was devastated she was so kind in her emails and the one phone call we had.
Thanks for this recap. I read the original novel in the early 90s sometime in junior high. To me it was easily forgettable as I was already consumed by the fear street series and the novels of Christopher Pike. But in high school when the movie came out, I was very excited to see the slasher update and still enjoy it 25 years later. In 97 I even wrote a parody called “I know what you did last Period” 😂
OK, I KNOW the narrator must be young as hell if he didn’t know “Last Summer” was based on a book. 🤣🤣 That was one of the most popular novels in my junior high school, along with books from Stephen King, Christopher Pike, Dean Koontz, and VC Andrews. OK, maybe I’m just old as hell. 🤣🤣
My parents are likely older than you and they don't know anything about the book. Please don't assume someone's age just because they don't share your experiences or memories.
Get the movie Catch Hell, it's more recent but he looks the same, catch it for 6-7 bucks brand new on e bay and your crush will slip into full force once again if you haven't seen it already.
I'm so glad you mentioned the book in your video, I don't think most people know how different the story is. I discovered Lois Duncan in 6th grade and by the time I was in my early 20's I had read every one of her books. She was such a great writer. I read an interview with her once and she wasn't particularly pleased with how the movie turned the story into "a slasher flick."
I remember this came out back in my circus days. We were in Chicago for a month and a bunch of us saw this and The Wedding Singer. It was near the end of our first season and we had new people joining the show so it was a way of welcoming them into the family.
@@Clownboy15 George Carden. I wasn’t a performer, worked in props and then was working as a stand-in for the tiger handler when the old one got fired. Was trying to make that my full time gig but I ended up leaving to come home. You?
@@willrunriot I was with Ringling’s red unit on the 127th edition. I did concessions. By the time we were in Chicago I had my own little stand. But my main was getting into Clown College, which I had been given verbal assurances I’d get to go in ‘98, but it was closed a couple of weeks after New Years.
I read every damn thing from Lois Duncan when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Her books were a reliable go-to recommendation when I worked in bookstores and libraries!
The twist in the book would have been impossible to pull off on film when (SPOILER two characters are actually the same person END SPOILER), but it is a great teen thriller. The character of Helen even has a cool chase scene of her own in the book. The 1997 film remains one of my favourites. Suspenseful, fun throwback to 80s slashers.
I recently saw Prom Night (1980) and couldn't help but notice how similar I Know What You Did Last Summer is to it. There's even a girl aggressively telling her friends not to tell anyone about their accidental crime, like Ryan Phillipe's character.
I would really like to see the I know what you did last Summer franchise get rebooted and come back to theaters. With the success of scream being resurrected as it has been, I know what you did last Summer is ripe for the picking. No legacy sequels though, I'm so over that. Just give us a good remake or a brand new story. Perhaps they could find a way to blend the stories from the film and the novel together?
I never could get into this movie. I always thought it felt kind of slow and lifeless. Call me crazy, I like I Still Know better although it's terrible.
Lois Duncan's books were a huge escape for me during a very toxic adolescence - I was very isolated and her books were such a huge comfort A teacher who cared for me introduced me to her books in 5th grade with some of the more tame themes and I eventually continued with my own exploration of her work her book about the very real unsolved case of her daughter meant volumes to me and i wish id had an opportunity to write to her before her passing may she rest in peace and live on through adaptations of her beloved works ♥️ even with changes to the plot, the core concepts she created were amazing
They should make a sequel with Jennifer Love and Freddie Prinz and have their daughter involved in another hit n run with her friends, but this time make the Killer one of her high school friends (revealed at the end), bring ray and Julie back to fight down the illusive killer who is revealed to be Ben Willis grandchild, and have muse Watson return alongside. Make Julie's daughter the lead, but when she's kidnapped make Julie the saviour lead character. Kill off Freddie Prinz
*Apparently Freddie and Jennifer Love were contracted to do the 3rd movie. I don't know what happened, but I really hope they make the sequel they were talking about earlier in the year with Julie and Ray*
Freddie did an interview recently and he said the Director HATED HIS WORK, he said the director wanted someone else play his character, bullied him...DAMN
This one confused me a lot when it came out. I'd read the novel in the 70s, but I was getting it confused with the 65 movie - I Saw What You Did (which included a prank call 'I know who you are, and I saw what you did'). This was the very early days of the internet (when this movie came out), but I worked at Barnes and Noble at the time and was finally able to figure things out.
Not only did I never realise that it was based on a book by Lois Duncan, but that Duncan was very vocal about her distaste for the film adaptation, since they turned a personal tragic event into a standard slasher.
In my opinion, this movie is one of the best horror movies ever made. I feel like if the “hook man” had a better and more iconic look, this movie would be way more recognized.
Never understood the love for this flick..... Everybody is so miserable or an asshole.... They all talk in that predictable Dawnson's Creek Dialogue.... The kills are meh.... There's no sense of fun or irreverence 80's slashers used to have....
I think I might actually like this movie more than Scream.... But, I remember renting this book from the library or something after I had seen the movie. I REALLY liked the book. And just recently, I decided to buy it. Got a copy of it off of Amazon, started to read it, and was like, "What's with all these references to the internet, UA-cam and all this other more modern stuff?" Cause I knew it was written in the '70s. THEN I found out about her updating her earlier works for modern times, and I absolutely hated it! I ended up buying an older copy of the book too, just so I could have the ORIGINAL text to read.....
I just flipped when I saw White Bat Audio on the credits! The absolute best synthwave producer there is. So glad you use and credit their stuff. JoBlo knows Synth.
One of my professors at college was Jeff Howard, the writer of Ouija: Origin of Evil, Midnight Mass, and the Netflix Resident Evil series. Him and Mike Flanagan were going to make this series together, but the producers didn’t like the ending he had written. Supposedly. I think that’s how he said it happened.
I was struggling with a chronic illness for a long time when an online friend of mine introduced me to a horror film series I'd never heard before, about like a bad b-blick version of that ending of Dirty Dancing? Or was it Ghost? Anyway it was all about the hairy potter dude who supposedly presented himself as a claymaker but instead whipped folk with a stick and even thought he could talk to snakes that he draped over everyone. Since I *hate* horror flicks I never watched all of it, but she told me they were actually based on novels and had the best visuals in a book to movie she'd ever seen. Asked her if she knew David Bowie, and we unfriended from there. Wait did, wait *looks around* ....did technology exist when...................
Aside from the scream franchise no other slasher film had the box office that I know had during that time period and still stands as one of the highest grossing films of the subgenre
I dub thee pretty much Perfection, certainly a masterpiece of the genre. I also love the 2nd one, and OH NOOO, I even like the 3rd one. It's not ass good as the first 2, but it's good enough for a cheesy night.
@@thealienbros5431 your right. My bad. I get the movies mixed up. Both "Scream" and "I know what you did last summer" both sucked. I'm kind excited about that new "Evil Dead Rise" movie
Whenever I hear the "what are you waiting for" line my mind instantly goes to the scary movie riff on that scene 🤣
"What am I waiting for?, what am I waiting for?!?!........FUCK YOU!!!!!! UGH"
Same! 😂
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I remember that the four core actors in the film were HUGE back then. Young people nowadays have no idea.
One of the better horror movie's of the late 90's but did anyone feel that Helen should have been the lead in the movie and survived instead of Julie
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Yes. But that's because I was obsessed with buffy. But also I like her as the final girl more.
No
No. No one wants the airhead, pageant winner as the lead.
@@natsohigh5552 she wasn’t an airhead. She put up way more of a fight than Julie and had way more character. Barry and Helen should’ve lived not Julie and Ray
Weird story I had been talking to the author about coming on my show and we traded emails back and forth untill she unfortunately died when she was found in her kitchen on the floor dead from a stroke or heart attack. I was devastated she was so kind in her emails and the one phone call we had.
Wow. Messed up. How old was she?
I call bulls**t
@@jakeyboy203 why? ...I do 50-70 interviews a year
@@RadioofHorror Doesn't mean your telling the truth show proof show the emails between you both
@@jakeyboy203 you want me to look up emails from 7 years ago?? Who are you I need to prove my self too lol
I Know What You Did Last Summer is right up there with Scream when it comes to slasher movies in the late 90's and it was written before Scream.
Thanks for this recap. I read the original novel in the early 90s sometime in junior high. To me it was easily forgettable as I was already consumed by the fear street series and the novels of Christopher Pike.
But in high school when the movie came out, I was very excited to see the slasher update and still enjoy it 25 years later. In 97 I even wrote a parody called “I know what you did last Period” 😂
OK, I KNOW the narrator must be young as hell if he didn’t know “Last Summer” was based on a book. 🤣🤣 That was one of the most popular novels in my junior high school, along with books from Stephen King, Christopher Pike, Dean Koontz, and VC Andrews. OK, maybe I’m just old as hell. 🤣🤣
My parents are likely older than you and they don't know anything about the book. Please don't assume someone's age just because they don't share your experiences or memories.
I had the biggest crush on Ryan Phillippe during this time. Between this and Cruel Intentions, I was in heaven.
Get the movie Catch Hell, it's more recent but he looks the same, catch it for 6-7 bucks brand new on e bay and your crush will slip into full force once again if you haven't seen it already.
The guy was also really great in Crash, Flags of our fathers, Stop-Loss & Lincoln Lawyer
He looks really attractive in Cruel Intentions.... Must be the chic outfits.
I read the book way before the movie ever came out, and the difference is like night and day.
I'm so glad you mentioned the book in your video, I don't think most people know how different the story is. I discovered Lois Duncan in 6th grade and by the time I was in my early 20's I had read every one of her books. She was such a great writer.
I read an interview with her once and she wasn't particularly pleased with how the movie turned the story into "a slasher flick."
I remember this came out back in my circus days. We were in Chicago for a month and a bunch of us saw this and The Wedding Singer. It was near the end of our first season and we had new people joining the show so it was a way of welcoming them into the family.
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Hey I have some circus days in my past too! 😆
@@willrunriot what show?
@@Clownboy15 George Carden. I wasn’t a performer, worked in props and then was working as a stand-in for the tiger handler when the old one got fired. Was trying to make that my full time gig but I ended up leaving to come home. You?
@@willrunriot I was with Ringling’s red unit on the 127th edition. I did concessions. By the time we were in Chicago I had my own little stand. But my main was getting into Clown College, which I had been given verbal assurances I’d get to go in ‘98, but it was closed a couple of weeks after New Years.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was EVERYTHING in this movie
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I had the biggest crush on Ryan Phillippe back in the day! 😍
I read every damn thing from Lois Duncan when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Her books were a reliable go-to recommendation when I worked in bookstores and libraries!
The Simpsons did this better and it was priceless.
The title: 'I know what you diddly-iddly did'.
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Well not making Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Character the main…and killing her character off.
I remember seeing this movie in high school. I had a friend who was a PA on the crew and got to meet Sarah in Beauford, NC.
Very fun movie and LOVE the opening (Type O Negative's 'Summer Breeze' was super welcomed).
I loved Lois Duncan books when I was 11-13 years old. They were so good for that age. More of her books could have adapted for movies.
They made a movie out of her book “Hotel for Dogs.”
Rank which ones you like in a list! Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Urban Legend, and Disturbing Behavior....
Shut up
The tv adaptation of Killing Mr. Griffin, starring Amy Jo Johnson, Mario Lopez & Jay Thomas, was SO much better than Teaching Mrs. Tingle.
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The twist in the book would have been impossible to pull off on film when (SPOILER two characters are actually the same person END SPOILER), but it is a great teen thriller. The character of Helen even has a cool chase scene of her own in the book. The 1997 film remains one of my favourites. Suspenseful, fun throwback to 80s slashers.
Or an alternative name could be. When the Gordon Fisherman Becomes A Serial Killer.
i had no idea it was a book... i also wear a blacl fisherman's jacket whenever I go out too BUT I also wear a bullet proof vest under it :)
I recently saw Prom Night (1980) and couldn't help but notice how similar I Know What You Did Last Summer is to it. There's even a girl aggressively telling her friends not to tell anyone about their accidental crime, like Ryan Phillipe's character.
Williamson isn’t the most original screenwriter or well he wears his influences on his sleeves.
I would really like to see the I know what you did last Summer franchise get rebooted and come back to theaters. With the success of scream being resurrected as it has been, I know what you did last Summer is ripe for the picking. No legacy sequels though, I'm so over that. Just give us a good remake or a brand new story. Perhaps they could find a way to blend the stories from the film and the novel together?
I remember reading the book after the movie and being so confused.
The Amazon version is HOT GARBAGE! So bad
Amazon's version of anything is hot garbage
I never could get into this movie. I always thought it felt kind of slow and lifeless. Call me crazy, I like I Still Know better although it's terrible.
Poor Jack Black. He just wanted to be stoned
Lois Duncan's books were a huge escape for me during a very toxic adolescence - I was very isolated and her books were such a huge comfort
A teacher who cared for me introduced me to her books in 5th grade with some of the more tame themes and I eventually continued with my own exploration of her work
her book about the very real unsolved case of her daughter meant volumes to me and i wish id had an opportunity to write to her before her passing
may she rest in peace and live on through adaptations of her beloved works ♥️ even with changes to the plot, the core concepts she created were amazing
I always wished they would make an adaptation of RL Stine book “Hit and run”
this movie got me into horror and I’ll forever love JLH…. swoon
i had no idea it was based on a book.
not surprised it was given a full total make over tho .
Thanks for the great video as always mate.
I've seen this movie 3 times, yet I remember nothing about it.
They should make a sequel with Jennifer Love and Freddie Prinz and have their daughter involved in another hit n run with her friends, but this time make the Killer one of her high school friends (revealed at the end), bring ray and Julie back to fight down the illusive killer who is revealed to be Ben Willis grandchild, and have muse Watson return alongside. Make Julie's daughter the lead, but when she's kidnapped make Julie the saviour lead character. Kill off Freddie Prinz
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NO
Seems like a storyline I can get around.
Only watched it for Jen Love Hewitt, as a teen lol
*Apparently Freddie and Jennifer Love were contracted to do the 3rd movie. I don't know what happened, but I really hope they make the sequel they were talking about earlier in the year with Julie and Ray*
Love this channel in Australia keep the great videos coming
I read the book in middle school. And a few other book by Lois Duncan like killing Mr. Griffin which was made into a movie as well.
Freddie did an interview recently and he said the Director HATED HIS WORK, he said the director wanted someone else play his character, bullied him...DAMN
I actually found an old copy of the book at a garage sale. Immediately bought it!
Oh man!!! That book twist is amazing. Should've followed that for the film. That twist could've stood well next to Scream
This one confused me a lot when it came out. I'd read the novel in the 70s, but I was getting it confused with the 65 movie - I Saw What You Did (which included a prank call 'I know who you are, and I saw what you did'). This was the very early days of the internet (when this movie came out), but I worked at Barnes and Noble at the time and was finally able to figure things out.
Didn't it was based on a novel until I started seeing the ending credits & did my research & noticed the difference between book canon & movie canon.
Not only did I never realise that it was based on a book by Lois Duncan, but that Duncan was very vocal about her distaste for the film adaptation, since they turned a personal tragic event into a standard slasher.
Which book
@@Bgdk It was also entitled "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
In my opinion, this movie is one of the best horror movies ever made. I feel like if the “hook man” had a better and more iconic look, this movie would be way more recognized.
Never understood the love for this flick..... Everybody is so miserable or an asshole.... They all talk in that predictable Dawnson's Creek Dialogue.... The kills are meh.... There's no sense of fun or irreverence 80's slashers used to have....
Apparently, there's another movie coming out, starring the Grady twins. It's called ''I'll Know What You Did Last Summer, Forever And Ever''. 👧👧
And ever, and ever, and ever, and ever......
I think I might actually like this movie more than Scream.... But, I remember renting this book from the library or something after I had seen the movie. I REALLY liked the book. And just recently, I decided to buy it. Got a copy of it off of Amazon, started to read it, and was like, "What's with all these references to the internet, UA-cam and all this other more modern stuff?" Cause I knew it was written in the '70s. THEN I found out about her updating her earlier works for modern times, and I absolutely hated it! I ended up buying an older copy of the book too, just so I could have the ORIGINAL text to read.....
👍👍👍👍👍 for the Bud Bundy reference!
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I was hoping someone would notice
@@MikeConwayX Mission Accomplished!
" Classics like Last Action Hero"? LOL>
I just flipped when I saw White Bat Audio on the credits! The absolute best synthwave producer there is. So glad you use and credit their stuff. JoBlo knows Synth.
One of my professors at college was Jeff Howard, the writer of Ouija: Origin of Evil, Midnight Mass, and the Netflix Resident Evil series. Him and Mike Flanagan were going to make this series together, but the producers didn’t like the ending he had written. Supposedly. I think that’s how he said it happened.
Jennifer was also in the classic hit Sister Act 2
I had no idea it was based on a book. I need to read it now
I read this book back in the 80's.
I was struggling with a chronic illness for a long time when an online friend of mine introduced me to a horror film series I'd never heard before, about like a bad b-blick version of that ending of Dirty Dancing? Or was it Ghost? Anyway it was all about the hairy potter dude who supposedly presented himself as a claymaker but instead whipped folk with a stick and even thought he could talk to snakes that he draped over everyone. Since I *hate* horror flicks I never watched all of it, but she told me they were actually based on novels and had the best visuals in a book to movie she'd ever seen.
Asked her if she knew David Bowie, and we unfriended from there. Wait did, wait *looks around* ....did technology exist when...................
What are you waiting for, huh?!
i hated Jack Black for years because of the sequel so annoying
Hahaha did you? He made me realize my mood of the franchise, huh?
I Have This Movie and The Sequel on DVD And it's not Bad.
Dude I first found out about the book at the school book fair The SCHOOL BOOK FAIR!!!!!
And it was 2004!!!
I adore this movie.. it's a total gem in 90s movies..
Don't forget Way of the Gun too. Incredible movie that never gets any love.
It was flat compared to Scream. Still cool to watch at times.
Are we not acknowledging their soap backgrounds? Gellar revolutionized all my children and won an emmy
Loved this movie
Bouncing between the book and the movie made this video feel pretty scattered. I'm so confused.
Trying to capitalize on the success of a popular horror movie doesn’t always work
Media. For the love of all that is holy, it's *media,* not "mediums." How can you have an entire channel dedicated to this and still get it wrong?
I never understood what made Mike Franks so mad that he want to start killing people some of you will get it some of you will not
Aside from the scream franchise no other slasher film had the box office that I know had during that time period and still stands as one of the highest grossing films of the subgenre
Don't forget about Muse Watson as the fisherman Ben Willis
How do y’all feel about the new reboot/legacy the suppose to be coming out with?
Both the film and the sequel are awesome. The threequel is ass.
Scream was a great movie but i could've done without all the teen horror movies that came after it.
Original story would’ve been a good drama !
So that is why the movie is so Bad...it was a bad adaptation.
At least Julie Andrei and her best friend survived the second one
My second favorite movie, after Scream.
JLH is thr hottest 90's icon, hands down.
good video i love this movie i would love to write a sequel.
Jennifer is absolutely stunning.
I never knew there was a third one
I dub thee pretty much Perfection, certainly a masterpiece of the genre. I also love the 2nd one, and OH NOOO, I even like the 3rd one. It's not ass good as the first 2, but it's good enough for a cheesy night.
Great video 💯
first to like and comment!!! yessssss
NO ONE CARES!!!
Get out of it
Get out of what
I never looked at movies with human killers as horror, especially scream, how is that scary
Hated these movies when they just have to made that killer like jason who they can't kill no matter what they do to him
"I know what you did last summer" sucks!
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@@thealienbros5431 your right. My bad. I get the movies mixed up. Both "Scream" and "I know what you did last summer" both sucked.
I'm kind excited about that new "Evil Dead Rise" movie
SMG was unbeatable in this era, even out shined JLH