I Know Who Killed Me was supposed to be the film that re-introduced Lindsay Lohan to a new audience and break her free from the Disney crowd. This year has been full of a few misfires within our favorite genre, beginning with Primeval and piquing with the abomination of Hostel: Part Two and the recent Roland Joffe thriller that didn’t click (I’d say due to the tinkering of the powers that be over at After Dark Films and their re-shoots). But this new film surely hammers the final nail into the “torture-porn” coffin of films.
Lindsay stars as Aubrey, an over achiever in high school that has a penchant for writing. Her stories are written about a girl named Dakota, who grows up on the wrong side of the tracks…(plot point one).
Awkwardly sprinkled about the first act of the film is a serial killer torturing girls. Smash cut to a football game and Aubrey with her friends. After the game, she disappears and all of a sudden she’s being tortured. The film plays just like I wrote that last bit. Plot holes, plot holes, and more plot holes.
Aubrey is then found on the side of the road. In the hospital, the docs and police attempt to piece her story together but she says that her name’s not Aubrey…it’s Dakota. And the mystery begins to unfold.
I will be honest and say that I have been a Lindsay Lohan fan since seeing her in Mean Girls and that I believe she has talent beneath her troubles & a beauty like no other. But in her latest film, the poorly executed thriller from the director of The Lost which is a cult favorite, I Know Who Killed Me is going to be the Gigli of our record breaking summer.
Words cannot express how bad this film is. I was invited to the cast and crew screening that was Lohan-less and the mood was very somber. Lindsay’s performance, albeit not-so-great, was truly the best part of this crappy film. Regarding her first onscreen sex-scene…She looks good but one cannot help feel like a creep and think about her in 1998’s The Parent Trap and have guilt.
One other thing that truly annoyed the hell out of me was their over-saturation of the color blue. Granted, I like the poster artwork…but they use the same damned color everywhere. In the back of my mind, I thought they were going to have the color represent something like Shymalan did in The Sixth Sense with the color red. Nope. Not even a tune by the Blue-Man Group.
Thinking more about the film, whatever seemed to pop off the page surely did not transcend to the screen. Looking back at some of Sivertson’s decisions with the film, clunky as it may have been, if they had taken a look at some of Hitchcock’s films, the creators really could’ve had something special that channeled Vertigo. But alas, it seems as though 360 Pictures was more interested in creating a logo for their company that steals from the cleverly crafted Twisted Pictures logo which falls before the Saw films.
Rehab is recommended for everyone involved with this debacle.
– Jack Reher
- Interview with J.R. Bookwalter - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Andrew J. Rausch - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Rick Popko and Dan West - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Director Stevan Mena (Malevolence) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Screenwriter Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead 2007) - January 22, 2015
- Teleconference interview with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) - January 22, 2015
- A Day at the Morgue with Corri English (Unrest) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actress Thora Birch (Dark Corners, The Hole, American Beauty) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actor Jason Behr, Plus Skinwalkers Press Coverage - January 22, 2015
