Review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) by Mark Ronald B — 09 Nov 2008

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1998 horror/thriller film directed by Danny Cannon and staring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer and Matthew Settle. Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1998 slasher film released as a sequel to the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer.

The film was then followed by I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer.In I Know What You Did Last Summer, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) had just spent a harrowing summer running for her life and dealing with the brutal murders of her high school friends by a vengeful fisherman named Ben Willis.

One year later, Julie has fled her hometown to attend college in Boston and leave the painful memories behind her (it is implied that the cliffhanger ending of I Know What You Did Last Summer was a nightmare of hers).

But, despite her best efforts to lead a normal life, the past has caught up with her. On the one-year anniversary of last summer's tragic deaths, Julie's college grades are slipping, and her relationship with high school sweetheart Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze, Jr.

) is faltering, although he secretly plans to propose to her. Karla Wilson (Brandy Norwood), Julie's spunky friend and roommate, wins an all-expenses-paid Bahamas vacation for four on the Fourth of July weekend, providing she can name the capital of Brazil.

She answers "Rio," and is told that she is correct. Julie wants to invite Ray on the trip, but he declines, hurt by her refusal to visit him in Southport, where last summer's murders took place.

Thus, Julie, Karla, Karla's boyfriend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer), and their new friend Will Benson (Matthew Settle) head to the Bahamas. However, the other hotel guests are leaving because hurricane season has begun.

Meanwhile, Ray, who has decided to surprise Julie and go on the trip, and his friend Dave (John Hawkes), are driving out of Southport. Suddenly, they see an idling BMW and a body lying in the middle of the road.

Ray goes to check it out and it appears to be fake, and Dave is impaled by the fisherman who stabs his hook inside Dave's mouth while he waits in the driver seat of the truck. Ray runs as the fisherman hops in the truck and attempts to run him down, and he stumbles into a ravine.

He awakes in a hospital and realizes Julie's in trouble. He leaves without being discharged, exchanges Julie's ring for a pistol, and steals a boat.Meanwhile, several murders have occurred at the resort, and Julie is forced to tell the others about her past.

Suspicion falls on the voodoo-practicing porter Estes (Bill Cobbs), who is trying to protect them. It's revealed that the vacation was arranged especially for Julie, and Karla hadn't "won" anything, because she'd incorrectly answered the question (the capital of Brazil is Brasília, not Rio de Janeiro).

Estes leads them to a gravyard sight where Ben Willis' family is buried and there is one tombstone that has Julia's name on it with an open hole, where Ben plans to dump her body in after he kills her.

It turns out though, another person of the Willis family is alive: Will Benson is in fact Ben Willis' son, and he leads Julie away from the others after killing Estes. Meanwhile Ben disposes of the bartender Nancy (Jennifer Esposito) and attacks Karla.

The survivors attempt to hide in a small building, but this does not work. Tyrell is killed with a hook through the head.Ray arrives just as Ben catches up with Julie and Will. In the ensuing fight, Ben accidentally stabs his son with his hook, and is shot with Ray's gun several times by Julie and falls into an empty grave.

The Coast Guard arrives, rescuing Ray, Julie, and Karla, who was just knocked out by the fisherman. In the last scene, Ray and Julie are in their newly-purchased house, and Julie, who is wearing an engagement ring, hears a sound coming from another bedroom.

She goes to shut an open window in the other room, not noticing the muddy footprints on the floor. As Ray is cleaning his teeth the door mysteriousely closes and locks behind him. As Julie enters her bedroom and sits down on her bed, she looks in the mirror leaning against the bottom part of her wall, and notices the fisherman under her bed.

She screams, and Ben grabs her legs and pulls her under the bed.