Filmmaking! Possum!
We’ve hit the halfway point of our eight-week camp marathon and – just like every other week – we have another film with an incredibly convoluted production history. After Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, Cursed and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, it’s time to turn our attention to the challenges of celebrity as Trace, guest star Anthony Hudson (of Gaylords of Darkness Podcast) and I put Lindsay Lohan’s career under the tabloid microscope.
In I Know What You Did Last Summer, the red-headed starlet plays twins separated from birth: good girl Aubrey and bad girl Dakota, the latter of whom experiences a kind of phantom stigmata when the former is kidnapped and tortured by a serial killer. The film is hilariously indebted to both better filmmakers and a ridiculous color scheme that bathes literally everything in either red or blue depending on which girl is onscreen.
It’s a dumb film that thinks it’s smart…and yet, there’s something so endearing about the terrible CGI, the fake leg and the outlandish sex scene that we can hardly complain about I Know Who Killed Me, which proves to be the perfect campy addition to our marathon!
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Episode 41 – I Know Who Killed Me
The boys continue their camp marathon with one of their most celebrated films yet: LiLo’s Razzie-winning, F CinemaScore-awarded, critical and commercial bomb I Know Who Killed Me!
Is it Hitchcock? Is it De Palma? Is it Giallo? Who can say?! Thankfully we have Gaylords of Darkness co-host Anthony Hudson here to help us unpack all of the stripper-y goodness.
Trace walks us through the car wreck of Lohan’s career, Joe repeatedly mispronounces “Dina”, and the trio obsess over Jennifer Tilly’s possum character and how a Disney animated version of the film would play out.
Plus: we try to unpack the symbolism of the film’s signature blue/red colour scheme, chastise the film’s apparently humourless set, and recast Ormond with Celine Dion. Also: Joe adds to his Amazon Christmas Wishlist and Trace tries out his impressions of both Lohan AND Katherine Heigl? We may have gone crazy…
This Week’s Game: we play ‘Fix This Movie’ by hypothesizing one thing that could be done to improve the film.
Cross out I Know Who Killed Me!
Coming up Wednesday: We’re getting extremely contemporary with a look at this year’s genre-busting WTF festival fave, The Perfection!
– Joe & Trace
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