[Lostie!]

I Know What You Did Last Summer:
5/10

Yeah, this doesn't really work for me. For a slasher, the kills are few and far between and the mystery (the most important element in a movie that takes this whodunit format) just doesn't amount to a satisfying resolution at all.

It's funny because Friday the 13th had the killer be someone we'd never seen before (something I HATE in mysteries), but Pamela Voorhees was such a brilliant character that I can't hate the reveal too much. Here, we technically had met the killer earlier (as a body in the road), but the reveal feels even less satisfying. On top of that, the final chase is just boring and not really the thrilling experience (for me anyway) that I'm sure they intended.

I loved Anne Heche's character Missy so I kind of wish she was the killer. Or if not her, Freddie Prinze Jr. When it leads you to thinking it's him near the end, only to do a swerve and end up being this guy who we don't really know at all (other than from the accident scene, but his face was still essentially a mystery to us) ... yeah, that frustrated me.

And then of course they had to include the obligatory final scare.

It gets a 5 and not lower because I didn't absolutely hate it with a raging passion, but I didn't exactly like it either. My main feeling when it was over was ... meh.

Rankings:
1. Scream 2 (9/10)
2. Scream (8/10)
3. Friday the 13th (7/10)
4. House of Wax (6.5/10)
5. I Know What You Did Last Summer (5/10)