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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Could have (should have) been better with a little work
Overall, this movie wasn't too bad. I thought the actors did a good job with the characters that could have easily been your run of the mill horror movie stereotypes (the asshole jock, the prom queen, the brainy girl, the blue collar kid, etc.). But what I really had a problem with was the fact that the killer was your typical horror movie cliche. While Williamson wittily lampooned horror movie cliches in Scream, in IKWYDLS he seems to use ever single one in the book. For example: the heroine who finds a mangled body in her trunk but when she brings her friends to see it only moments later there is nothing to see (despite the fact that it was covered with dozens of live crabs). Or when the killer appears behind the guy on the balcony and hacks him to pieces while his girlfriend watches but no one will believe her and of course there is no body again only minutes later. Or just the way that the killer is always around the corner and always knows everything his victims are going to do. Or how the killer can be ran over, drowned, mangled, etc. and still keeps coming back... The potential was there in the plot for them to flesh him out and actually make him a believable character, but instead he's nothing but one big cliche. And don't even get me started on the sequel, which was ten times worse.
La endemoniada (1975)
Mediocre Exorcist clone
This film apparently was a Spanish attempt to cash in on the success of The Exorcist, which came out the year before. To sum up the cliche'd plot, a cult of Satanic gypsies kidnaps a little baby boy, and the police arrest an old gypsie witch that they suspect has the child. The witch jumps out of a window to her death, but manages to possess the police chief's teenage daughter. The girl starts getting a foul mouth on her, and later transforms into a teenager version of the old witch and sacrifices the missing baby to Satan and then proceeds to kill a few more people for good measure. After the little witch tries to kidnap her baby cousin to sacrifice, finally a priest tries to exorcise her leading to the rather pointless ending.
Overall, the movie was very slow and had little originality to offer. The violence wasn't particularly gory or graphic and there aren't many special effects to speak of. The only good thing I can say for this movie is that they did a good job of making the transformed version of the young girl look a lot like the old witch.