Last Summer (2011 film)

Last Summer is a 2011 American Slasher 3D Horror film written by Stephen Susco and directed by Chris Cunnigham starring Michael Rady, Genevieve Cortese, Matthew Settle, Billy Crudup, Naturi Naughton, Ian Somerhalder, Kieran Culkin, Shirley MacLaine, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Amanda Bynes and Kaley Cuoco. The film serves as the fourth instalment in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise though ignores sthe storyline of the third direct to video film entirely instead following on directly from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

The film is distributed by Screen Gems and was made on a vastly bigger budget then it's three predecessors.

Actresses Jennifer Love Hewitt, Singer/Actress Brandy Norwood and actor Freddie Prinze Jr. all return reprising their respective roles from the previous I Know What You Did Last Summer films.

The film was shot centrally in Madras, Oregon and on certain sound stage sets created by Screen Gems in colloboration with the Weinstein Company and Village Roadshow.

The film was originally set to be written by Kevin Williamson the infamous creator of the Scream franchise (the writer of the first, second and fourth instalments of that series) who had helmed the screenplay of the first I Know What You Did Last Summer and had been the creator of the hit teenage WB series Dawson's Creek.

However as of April 16th, 2010 writer Stephen Susco who had helmed the screenplay of Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On Remake The Grudge and it's sequel stepped in to write for the film.

Director Cunnigham was attached to the project immediatley on recommendation of Williamson who joined the crew as an executive producer and Screen Gems.

The film was released after a large theatrical marketing campaign on July 4th, 2011 and grossed well above it's budget and garnered a mixed to positive reception from critics.

The film was awarded with a Saturn Award Nomination for Best Horror/Thriller film 2011 (losing out to the David Fincher American remake of the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) as well as Saturn Award Nominations for Best Performances of the genre from actors Cortese and Crudup respectively.

The film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc Format on November 11th, 2011 and Digital Copy and Ultra-Violet format on January 16th, 2012.

Summary

The night of 4th of July 2010 six Southport youths heading up the windy mountain roads surrounding Dawson's Beach through a storm come to make collision with a slicker dressed man brandishing a fisherman's hook.

The six youths come into a panic and are joined on the road by a fellow Southport High alumni, a snobby unliked rich girl and the group find themselves faced with the dilemma of manslaughter through the further taken actions of one of the group: Laker Stalk.

The group desperate to protect each one's own individual future agree to cover up the incident, only to a year later on the week leading up to the 4th of July 2011 have a maniac dressed in the same fisherman slicker they saw that night wielding the same sharp silver hook the man they hit that night come after them.

Plot

The film begins with Julie Bronson (Jennifer Love Hewitt) heading to an appointment with her advertising agent Susan Granger (Chelah Horsdal) who is to promote her set up councelling group for survivors of psychopaths.

Julie arrives at Susan's office and is appaled to see the set up the billboard design of her cowering before a fisherman in a slicker with the message "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

Julie in an argument with the superficial Susan tears up her set up posters throughout the building before exiting dramatically and calling now husband Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.) who operates as a simple fisherman still in Southport.

That night Susan prepares to lock up the building bidding goodnight to all the employees departing apart from the janitor.

Susan comes into her office to find a cut up sketch of the billboard image reading For Julie before she is attacked by a fisherman slicker dressed figure wielding a sharp, silver hook.

Susan attempts to flee from the Fisherman as she throws a plant through her office window and flees out into the corridor pass-coding herself from door to door until she reaches where the janitor is mopping up.

Susan being cornered turns a circle and stashes herself in a storage closet.

The Janitor comes into the corridor with the storage closet and Susan only seeing his shadow at first believes him to be the fisherman and backs further into the closet out of sight only to catch a glimpse of the janitor Anson and then prepares to run out only to have the Fisherman attack within the closet and burst out, Susan is then thrown through a door before being stabbed in the back of the head multiple times by the hook.

Cast

• Michael Rady as Reece Matthews
• Genevieve Cortese as Amanda Richardson
• Matthew Settle as Lance Chamberwell
• Billy Crudup as Duncan Evans/ Benjamin Willis Jr. / The Fisherman
• Naturi Naughton as Larena Smith
• Ian Somerhalder as Laker Stalk
• Kaley Cuoco as Alice Himbry
• Kieran Culkin as Truman Phillips
• Lizzy Caplan as LaShawne Marks
• Norman Reedus as Phillip Marks
• Shirley MacLaine as Romola Richardson
• Ving Rhames as Sheriff Marhilik Eastman
• Meagan Good as Deputy Shuritta Shore
• Jay Ellis as Deputy Hakeem Jansen
• Brian Cox as Walter Nasley
• Shailene Woodley as Olivia-Sarah Vemerez
• Philip Winchester as Deputy Blaine Allen
• Bitsie Tulloch as Deputy Jane Vemerez
• Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie Bronson
• Brandy Norwood as Karla Wilson
• Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson
• Chelah Horsdal as Susan Granger
• Lynne Thigpen as Audrey Smith
• John Ashton as Lars Stalk
• Jimmy Smits as Kurt Stalk
• Barbara Flynn as Helen Matthews
• Mimi Kennedy as Connie Stalk
• Dennis Waterman as Robert Matthews
• James Faulkner as Lyle Marks
• Nathalie Baye as Ellen Marks
• Troy Evans as Jedidah Phillips
• Marianne Muellerleile as Alison Himbry
• Gregory Itzin as Neighbour Mike Horris
• Vincent Vescio as Patygoer Tom
• Juliya Chernetsky as Partygoer Tina
• Leyla Milani as Partgoer 
• Jessica Caban as Partygoer
• Dane Davenport as Partygoer
• Chris Jai Alex as Partygoer
• Ryeowon Jung as Partygoer
• Mikey Post as Partygoer
• Gabe Grey as Partygoer

Soundtrack

1. In The Dark- DEV
2. Paradise- Coldplay
3. The Show Goes On- Lupe Fiasco
4. Rocketeer- Far East Movement feat Ryan Tedder
5. This Is Where It Gets Good- Eels (End Credits Song)