In the realm of post-"Scream" teen slasher flicks, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" isn't terrible. Which isn't the same as saying it's good! Because, objectively, "Ikwydls" is not a "good" movie. In fact, it's a pretty dumb one. But I'll be damned if I haven't watched it at least seven or eight times, and that's mostly thanks to Sarah Michelle Gellar's oddly compelling performance as Southport, North Carolina's doomed resident "Croaker Queen" Helen Shivers. Here's how old I am: I saw "Ikwydls" in theaters. The year was 1997, and I was...12? 14? Let's go with 14 (for now). We were in the midst of a horror "revolution," which is to say: one good movie came out ("Scream"), that movie became a giant sleeper hit, and Hollywood just kept making lesser versions of that movie over and over again until it stopped working for them. (I peg the end of...
- 4/16/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Welcome to a new bite-size version of Outrage Watch, HitFix's daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Not anxious enough already? Get your fix of indignation below, and stay posted for outrage updates throughout the day. Are you an avid watcher of "Game of Thrones," "True Detective" and/or "Law & Order: Svu"? Do you breathlessly anticipate each new episode of said TV shows? Then you may be complicit in the culture of violence against women. At least that's according to author and The Rumpus contributor Anna March, who in a thoughtful new piece for Salon takes aim at shows that regularly feature women being raped, murdered and otherwise brutalized under the guise of entertainment. "I wonder how the entertainment value of narratives driven by violence against women undermines the message that that violence against women is real, it is serious, and it is pervasive," writes March.
- 4/14/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
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