A group of pre-graduation revelers accidentally bump into a stranger on a dark and windy night, thinking that the teenagers who hit the victim transported the "corpse" to the beach to try to cover up the crime, but even more unexpectedly found that the person who was hit did not seem to be dead.
But this group of dead teenagers still decided to throw them into the sea and "throw away the body"...
In the second year after the incident, the death team successfully entered the university and became a college student, and the matter was already forgotten.
One day, one of the girls received a letter that said, "I know what you did last summer," almost on the spot.
In a panic, the girl hurriedly contacted several other people to discuss countermeasures, and the others who heard the news also received death threats one after another.
A bloody revenge and murder began...
I believe many people have seen the 1997 release of "I Know What You Did Last Summer", starring Ryan Philippe, Sarah Michelle Gela, Jennifer Love Hewitt and others, who were still teen idols at the time and became old acquaintances of American dramas in the blink of an eye.
Because of the film's success, a series of "last summer" films were developed —apparently, none of them as good as the first one.
This first half of the suspense, the second half of the thriller and bloody horror movie, although there is still a youth theme horror film habitual protagonist IQ is not enough hard wounds, but the handsome men and beautiful women of the eye-catching collocation and good rhythm, still won the attention of many fans, but also became a classic IP.
By 2021, Hollywood has rebooted a lot of classic IPs, and horror genre films are not small, but "I know what you did last summer" is particularly eye-catching in horror thriller reboots.
It's just that the project, which was adapted from a film into a TV series, will be produced by Wen Ziren (rumor has it that There was a possibility of Wen Ziren directing, but it was ultimately not realized).
The 2021 reboot version of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" has a total of 14 episodes, and the premiere adopts the mode of simulcast 4 episodes, hoping to attract the audience through the coherent plot unfolding.
In terms of the results of the first four episodes, the plot is "unfolded", or even too unfolded, but "attraction" is really not very successful.
After the broadcast, imdb's 1-star comments focusing on "water injection" and "god unfolding" were also overwhelming.
The reason for this is nothing more than that the drama version of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" incorporates too many "youth pain literature" components, and is mixed in the story line of all the characters without priority, so that the audience who originally rushed to see the drama with suspense, thriller and horror elements look slow and annoying in the clouds.
It seems that each character in the play has their own youth pain.
For example, the mother committed suicide, the father favored the sister, and the original family pain of the twin sisters with very different personalities;
For example, the emotional entanglement and sexual distress between Asian gay men and Asian rich women;
Another example is the white boy who has an affair with his twin sister, but seems to have something happening with his sister...
If the first 2/3 of the first episode is to unfold the slightly chaotic and dull relationship between the characters, then after the car accident occurs at the end and the reversal of the deceased is clearly explained, the second episode should start to run straight to the suspenseful revenge scene.
As a result, in the second episode, the emotional entanglement and psychological activities of various branches began to be pulled back and forth, and even the main plot could not be seen in the slightest connection.
Although it can be seen that the director tries to use the parallel editing of clockwise narrative + interpolation to create a suspenseful and deciphering atmosphere.
However, because the progress of the main line is almost drowned in the trivialities of youth pain, it seems to be unhelpful but adds to the chaos, even if in the second episode finally appears to be abused and killed by the Avengers, it does not stimulate the audience's desire to chase the drama.
So when you stuck to the third episode, or even the fourth episode...
How to say it? I was bored watching the show last time.
In general, the drama version of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" does add a lot of "details" to the film version, and also tries to make each character and even the character's family (such as the heroine's father) more plump and three-dimensional.
However, the practice of weakening the main line to the point of nearly disappearing in order to increase these side plots is not a clever arrangement.
If you're looking at the rebooted version of I Know What You Did Last Summer at the heart of "I Know What You Did Last Summer"—suspenseful horror and fast-paced—you're going to be disappointed—perhaps that's the main reason the show has only a 5.1 rating on imdb today.
But if you don't notice the audience of the drama version because of the film version, you may be able to accept that this is a simple Suspense drama of American adolescent pain literature, and you can even find some desire to chase the drama.
As for Wen Ziren's supervision, it may be easy to use, but it is really not good.
In today's Hollywood, where many film and television dramas that are related to horror are eager to be linked to Wen Ziren, watching the golden signboard become a smashing signboard because of excessive consumption, it has to be said that it is a great irony.