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October 29, 2003
The Fisherman
Four kids are out partying one summer night celebrating the end of their high school days. There's drinking involved, of course, and as they speed around Reaper's Curve, their car smacks into something. A deer? No. It's a guy, and he looks dead. Do they call the cops and accept the punishment for their stupidity? No. They drop the body into the ocean and make a promise to bury the truth forever. Yeah, well, there's one person who won't agree to that: The Fisherman.
The following summer, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and her friends receive cryptic notes that claim "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and they freak. That's when a dark figure dressed in a black rain slicker carrying a silver hook begins stalking them. Who saw them hit the man? Or did someone watch as they dumped the body? Julie and her friends - Ray, Helen, and Barry - try to stay alive while attempting to uncover the identity of the Fisherman.
The Fisherman knocks off a few people, including a cop and Helen's sister, and eventually gets to Helen and Barry. At this point, Julie begins to suspect her boyfriend Ray is the killer, and as she runs away spots a local fisherman heading out to the harbor. He lets her on the boat, leaving Ray at the docks, proclaiming his innocence. While on board, Julie stumbles upon a room full of pictures of her and her friends and realizes she got on the wrong damn boat. The Fisherman is none other that Ben Willis (Muse Watson), the man they hit with their car and left for dead. He's intent on making these stupid kids pay what they did to him.
At the end, Ray finds a way to get onto the ship and saves Julie. During the fight, Willis gets his hand chopped off and falls overboard. His demise is questionable since the body is never recovered, and so Julie and Ray will always be left wondering if there's someone out there that Still Knows What They Did Last Summer. But as far as villains go, this is one of the few that, for the most part, had a really good reason to go crazy.
INTELLIGENCE - 6: Willis shows great patience, waiting a full year to recover from injuries before tracking down his targets, and makes very few mistakes.
POWER - 7: He's a very strong man, able to carry 100-pound models, err, victims around on a hook.
VILENESS - 9: Guts people like fish.
SWAY - 6: His non-verbal strategy of leaving notes definitely works.
PURITY - 8: Ben is enraged the kids dumped his body rather than help him, and wants them all dead.
PHYSICAL - 7: The dark slicker and shiny (often bloody) silver hook make for a decent bad guy getup.
TOTAL: 43
Posted by Destro at October 29, 2003 10:00 AM