Why I Know What You Did Last Summer’s Show Is More Brutal Than The Movie
Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer offers a major twist on the basic premise that makes it far more heartbreaking & brutal than the 1997 film.
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Why Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer show is far more brutal than the 1997 movie of the same name. Both the TV series and the first film are based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel, but the updated edition takes certain creative liberties that not only set it apart from its film counterpart, but make it far more devastating as a result.
To be sure, the premise for I Know What You Did Last Summer is the same as the film. Following their high school graduation, a group of teenagers run someone over, killing them and disposing of the body so as to avoid facing the consequences of their actions. While they’re haunted by their own guilt, their past crime actually comes back for revenge a year later, threatening, stalking, and ultimately killing them off one by one. However, unlike the 1997 film, which saw the characters being followed by a fisherman who previously killed someone, Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer sees the teens — Allison, Johnny, Riley, Dylan, and Margot — run over Lennon, one of their friends.
The accident is made all the worse by the fact that the person driving the car when Lennon was hit was none other than her twin sister Allison. There’s no doubt running a stranger over is bad. Leaving him for dead when he was still breathing even more so. But knowing the victim personally is awful, and it’s even more brutal considering all of Lennon’s friends — and especially Allison, who was believed to be her twin that night — decided to lie about what happened to her, leaving her in a cave to be washed away by the ocean and claiming she ran away to everyone in town. Knowing Lennon raises the stakes for the characters in I Know What You Did Last Summer, making them far more personal as well. Every threatening message, every kill thereafter is more terrifying because of the nature of events.
What’s more, Allison must carry on living as Lennon because she never revealed her true identity to Dylan, Margot et al. There’s a lot of guilt and shame wrapped up in killing one’s own sister, as well as essentially taking her life after, especially since Allison and Lennon’s final conversation was a heated argument. On top of all this, Lennon’s friends have no idea which twin they actually killed. The fact that they would all rather cover up “Allison’s” death instead of facing the consequences for their actions is terrible and suggests they value their own lives over that of a friend. That many of them, including Allison on occasion, show little remorse, more scared of what the killer knows than in what they did, makes I Know What You Did Last Summer far more cruel than the film could ever be.
At least in the movie, the characters are somewhat removed from the killer who goes after them. They feel guilty for leaving him to die, but they also didn’t share a close relationship that would have made their actions far more savage. As it stands, the I Know What You Did Last Summer series changes just enough of the story to up the stakes and make the accident and the killings thereafter much worse than its movie predecessor.
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