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Publication: The Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.
If you are going to make a teen slasher movie, make sure you have enough characters to keep the carnage moving. You can only almost kill people so many times before the movie feels like a pre-teen television horror show trying not to offend its audience.
"I Know What You Did Last Summer," the latest horror movie from "Scream" screenwriter Kevin Williamson, only gives us four characters. And we know those four have to stay around for the final bloodbath in the end, so for the rest of the movie we have to make due with near killings and characters we barely know turning up dead.
These four friends are on their way home from partying heavily during their last summer together before college when they accidentally run a man over. Fearing their futures are in jeopardy, they decide to dump the body and never speak of the incident again.
One year later, the four return to their sleepy North Carolina fishing village with their lives having been...