In 1996,Wes Cravenresurrected a dying horror genre with his meta-slasherScream.
One by one, her friends then begin to die.
I Know What You Did Last Summerhad a mixed response when it was released in 1997.
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Critics didn’t respond to it like they did withScream.
She opens it to find a dead body covered in crabs and rightfully freaks out.
Is Julie losing her mind or is the killer messing with them?
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There’s nothing they can do.
They can’t go to the police, so they’re at his mercy.
She has had it with the games.
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If this guy is going to attack them, do it already.
What are you waiting for?"
We wish Craven and Williamson got to see out their vision.
The scene was instantly iconic, to the point thatit was mocked inScary Movieand is now a meme today.
I was literally like, Are you kidding me right now?
This is what Im gonna do?
This was a great idea.
But the scene deserves some more analysis.
It’s a powerful moment of audience recognition.
Up until this point, Julie James has been meek.
She’s going to act now.
It was in this short scene thatone of the most famous slasher final girls was born.
And it all came from the mind of a child.
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