{"id":8447,"date":"2024-11-18T00:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2024-11-18T00:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T05:08:29","slug":"i-know-who-killed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/11\/18\/i-know-who-killed-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know Who Killed Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I Know Who Killed Me <\/strong>(2007)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 TriStar\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 106 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (graphic bloody violence and gore, torture, language, sexuality, nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Chris Sivertson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Jeff Hammond\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joel McNeely\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: John R. Leonetti\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 27, 2007 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Spencer Garrett, Kenya Moore, Gregory Itzin, Thomas Tofel, Bonnie Aarons, Michael Esparza, Donovan Scott, Paula Marshall, Brian McNamara.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $7.2M (US)\/$9.6M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\n

\u00a0Or as I like to call it, I Know What Killed Lindsay Lohan\u2019s Career.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s true I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> (LOVE that title!) is a stinker. Fortunately, it\u2019s a hilariously bad stinker that\u2019s entertaining for reasons not intended by director Chris Sivertson (All Cheerleaders Die). Lohan (The Parent Trap) plays a dual role in this gory thriller about the kidnapping of a college student by a sadistic creep. When she\u2019s found about three weeks later (minus a few limbs), she claims to be somebody else. That somebody else is a stripper who does nasty things with customers\u2019 cigarettes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019ll discuss the plot in more detail in a bit even though no written description could ever do it justice. It\u2019s so ludicrous you have to see it for yourself. Not that audiences bothered to do so in the two weeks I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> played in theaters. The writing on the wall was there from the start. You could tell how bad it would be by the trailer. The studio declined to screen it in advance for critics, NEVER a good sign. When they did see it, they panned it mercilessly. As a suspense-thriller, I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> sucks. It does, however, succeed as an unintentional comedy. It\u2019s laughably bad.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now for the plot, but while you read it, let\u2019s play a game. You tell me which role better suits Lohan given her trainwreck of a life off-screen. Aubrey Fleming, aspiring writer and gifted pianist, lives in upscale New Salem with her parents, Daniel (McDonough, Captain America) and Susan (Ormond, Legends of the Fall). She has a devoted jock boyfriend, Jerrod (Geraghty, Chicago PD). You can tell she\u2019s a serious type because she wears glasses when she reads her short stories to her classmates. Oh yeah, she\u2019s also a virgin. I\u2019ll wait until the laughter dies down.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One night after a big football game, Aubrey disappears, the victim of a serial killer who\u2019s been terrorizing the area. He\/she kidnaps his young female victims and keeps them for a while, torturing them by cutting off limbs before dumping their bodies. Aubrey miraculously survives her ordeal, but when questioned by her parents and law enforcement agents, she claims she\u2019s not Aubrey. She insists she\u2019s Dakota Moss, a down on her luck stripper whose drug addict mother recently died of an overdose. You can tell she\u2019s sleazy because she smokes, swears up a blue storm and screws Jerrod when he stops by for visit. Okay, which role do you think Lohan is more believable in? I\u2019ll tell you the right answer in a bit.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Aubrey\/Dakota, sporting a prosthetic hand and leg, goes home with the Flemings hoping she will regain her memory if that is indeed the problem. This is where I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> really goes off the rails. I have no intention of divulging the ending, but I will say that the writer throws a few different theories against the wall to see which one sticks. What is going on with Aubrey\/Dakota? Is it PTSD-related amnesia? Is she so traumatized that she adapts the persona of a character in one of her short stories? Maybe she has a twin sister from whom she was separated at birth? At one point, she researches \u201cstigmata twins\u201d on the Internet. I tried Googling it, but couldn\u2019t find anything. In any event, when we finally do find out what\u2019s going on, it\u2019s told in a manner equivalent to simply saying, \u201cYeah, that happened.\u201d Not that you won\u2019t have figured it out long before the makers decide to tell.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The other mystery in I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> is the identity of the killer. You won\u2019t have any trouble figuring that out either if you know something about how thrillers are constructed. In such movies, no scene or character is superfluous. Early on, Aubrey interacts with somebody about something that doesn\u2019t come up again. We never see this person again either. Given the nature of thrillers, it\u2019s a pretty safe bet the subject and character will reappear in the climax. More than that, it\u2019s inevitable. But the makers don\u2019t want to make it too easy for the viewer. For a movie that favors an electric blue color motif it sure has a lot of red herrings, the most obvious being McDonough, an actor (with piercing blue eyes) who\u2019s played many a villain. You can eliminate him right away.<\/p>\n

\u00a0No matter how hard it tries, I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> fails to generate any real suspense. However, it would be inaccurate to call it predictable. While it\u2019s fairly easy to guess the outcome, it\u2019s not so easy guessing what ridiculous thing will happen next. This movie gets sillier as it goes along. It\u2019s filled to the top with contrivances and plot holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through. Near the end, Aubrey\/Dakota finds a clue that instantly reveals the identity of the killer. How the hell did the local police and FBI miss it? It was right there in the open. If they bothered to look into the victims\u2019 mutual acquaintances, they would have nabbed him\/her. This is a very incompetently written movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acting is atrocious. Lohan, because of her dual role, is twice as bad as the rest of the cast. The answer to my earlier question is that she\u2019s equally unbelievable in both roles. She\u2019s the most unconvincing virgin in movies since Madonna in Shanghai Surprise (1986). As a stripper, Lohan makes Elizabeth Berkley (Showgirls) look like a goddess. She\u2019s neither sexy nor particularly attractive. She\u2019s just sleazy. Her pole routines are dull. Her sex scene with Geraghty is just creepy. Amputee sex, isn\u2019t that a porn category? Ormond is wasted as Aubrey\u2019s mother. She gets little more to do than look at her \u201cdaughter\u201d with great concern and remind her she lives in a non-smoking house. McDonough is wooden as the father who may or may not be keeping a secret. Geraghty is terrible as the boyfriend.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Early on, it\u2019s abundantly clear Sivertson is emulating Brian De Palma (Body Double) with all the plot twists and turns making him, I guess, a Hitchcock imitator once removed. He also adds a bit of a weird David Lynch vibe to the weird, ridiculous proceedings. I will give I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> points for its visual style. It resembles an electric blue-hued Lynch-noir nightmare. It would have been one thing if it was just a bad De Palma\/Lynch knock-off, but Sivertson saw fit to throw in a bit of torture porn action. We watch as the killer cruelly rips the flesh from Lohan\u2019s hand. We watch as Lohan attempts to sew a finger back on. If the look of the movie is weird, the sound is weirder. The soundtrack feels disconnected from the action in the movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0No two ways about it, I Know Who Killed Me<\/strong> is a colossally bad movie. It swept the Razzies that year, taking home eight awards. Lohan won two Worst Actress awards. This movie is like an episode of The Patty Duke Show set at a certain Hostel. But you gotta LOVE that title though. It\u2019s an actual line of dialogue in the movie. It just rolls off the tongue and hits the funny bone.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, one more joke about the title. Call it I Know Who Killed Me Last Summer. No matter what you call it, it\u2019s a total bad movie guilty pleasure.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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