I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

Director:

Chris Sivertson

Writer (WGA):

Jeff Hammond (written by)

Release Date:

27 July 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

If you think you know the secret...Think twice.

Plot:

An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital insists that she is not who they think she is and that the real Aubrey Fleming is still in mortal danger.

Plot Keywords:

Hospital | Killer | Serial Killer | Small Town | Story

Awards:

8 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Bonnie Aarons	...	Fat Teena
Michael Adler	...	Dr. Alex Dupree
Garcelle Beauvais	...	Agent Julie Bascome (as Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon)
Art Bell	...	Himself
Stacy Daniel	...	Reporter #2
Michael Esparza	...	Gilberto
David Figlioli	...	Lanny Rierden
Amy Fuehrer	...	Reporter #1
Jane Galloway Heitz	...	Nurse Irma Beck
Spencer Garrett	...	Agent Phil Lazarus
Brian Geraghty	...	Jerrod Pointer
Cornelia Guest	...	Dr. Hannah Sommerly
Megan Henning	...	Anya
Jesse Hlubik	...	FBI Agent #2
Gregory Itzin	...	Dr. Greg Jameson

MPAA:

Rated R for grisly violence including torture and disturbing gory images, and for sexuality, nudity and language.

Runtime:

USA:105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | UK:18 | Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) | Philippines:R-13 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Finland:K-15 | Germany:18 | USA:R (certificate #43593) | Australia:MA (2008) | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | Italy:VM14

Filming Locations:

Fremont Theater - 1025 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, California, USA

Company:

360 Pictures

Trivia:

This is the third time Lindsay Lohan played two characters in one film. Her first time was as Hallie Parker and Annie James in The Parent Trap (1998) where she played twins and her second time was in Freaky Friday (2003) where she played Anna Coleman and Tess Coleman, whose body were swapped after an unfortunate Chinese curse.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the sex scene at one point you can see Dakota from the back without a bra. Then as she grabs the blanket and sits up you can see that she is wearing a strapless bra. Then later when she is smoking and turns around again you can see that she isn't wearing a bra at all and is holding tightly to the blanket.

Quotes:

Gilberto: People get cut. That's life.

Movie Connections:

References The Mad Room (1969)

Soundtrack:

Grand Valse Brillante in A minor Op. 34, No. 2

Hilariously Bad

My friend won tickets to a pre release showing of this movie in Boston. I went into the theater with absolutely no idea what it would be about and with no preconceived notions. I left the theater feeling confused and thankful that I hadn't actually paid to see it.

This film takes every thriller movie cliché in the book and slathers it on ad nauseam. I'm not opposed to a good cliché thriller movie, but at some point it becomes comical. The plot was extremely contrived and had enough holes to fill the Royal Albert Hall. Perhaps the scenes explaining the plot ended up on the cutting room floor in favor of some of the more grotesque and gratuitous gore scenes (of which there were plenty). The film's twist, one so ludicrous even the most die-hard Lohan films will giggle, is pulled directly from left field after a seemingly magical epiphany by the film's main character. The filmmakers thrown in a plethora of minor characters with undeveloped and unresolved story lines in an attempt to "throw off" the audience. Nevertheless, not ten minutes into the film, I, along with the others I was with, had successfully predicted the antagonist.

The final thirty minutes of the film was a non-stop laugh riot. The packed theater of varying demographics was rolling in the aisles as cliché after hackneyed cliché flew off the screen in rapid succession to hilarious results. I joked to the person beside me that I hadn't laughed as hard since the first time I saw "Borat".

Stylistically, the movie is a film school student's wet dream rife of "artsy" shots and recurring motifs. Unfortunately, for the audience, this does little to redeem from the film's most blaring flaw: it's entire premise.

It's difficult to fairly critique the film's actors given what they had to work with. I can say that Lohan's performance seemed rather bland and stale throughout, as though in the back of her mind she knew the movie was trite and looked at it more as a paycheck than a serious mark on her resume.

Aside from the occasional, "I almost died laughing when....", I heard scarcely a good comment in the lobby after the film. As a horror-comedy this film might have actually been good, but as a thriller it missed the mark entirely.