I Know Who Killed Me
I Know Who Killed Me, was mostly forgotten about when it hit theatres in the summer of 2007. That summer I was doing an internship and wasn’t watching a lot of TV so when I went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I was surprised to see another movie playing staring Lindsay Lohan that I had never heard about. Then the very next week when I went to the movies it was gone and I remember not hearing anything about it ever again. It did win quite a few Razzie awards, two specifically for both of Lohan’s characters she plays and was generally considered the worst movie of the year.
Now I bought this movie before I had seen it because it was cheaper than renting it and will tell you right now I have seen this movie three times. I say that just to let you know that I did actually sit through the whole thing enough to get a feel for it.
So if you happen to want to see this movie unspoiled you might want to stop reading but honestly it isn’t worth watching so don’t worry. The main plot of the movie is that Lohan was kidnapped after a football game and went missing for a few days. She turns up on the side of the road with her hand cut off and her leg so mangled that it has to be cut off as well. When she finally comes to she has some short term memory loss and doesn’t recognize her parents and claims to be another person entirely. This is when the movie kind of takes a turn and really becomes more about how every one thinks shes loosing her shit and more about her memories than the whole killer situation. So Lohan decides that the girl they think she is, is in actually trouble and has to find her on her own since no one believes she another person. Skip to big scene of her confronting her killer who was her piano teacher and the last scene you find out she was telling the truth and had a secret twin all along. After a struggle she kills the teacher and saves her twin in the nick of time, all is well, roll credits.
That being said this is easily a bad movie. First the killer is pretty easy to identify during the first 10 minutes of the movie. I am usually the one that doesn’t catch on to the clues given to me during a mystery movie but I Know Who Killed Me really doesn’t try in that field at all. This leaves you feeling that Lindsay Lohan’s character is just really stupid the whole movie. Now the whole movie revolves around her trying to convince every one that she isn’t the girl they think went missing. During this process you really start to get mad at her and think that shes lying or for some reason her memory was messed up during the attack. So when you finally find out she was telling the truth the whole time you don’t feel like it is a twist as much as you are angry that that is the direction they decided to go. Furthermore her being two different people turns the movie from plausible to ridiculous. You are suppose to believe that the “twin esp” (that one twin can think/feel what the other is feeling/thinking) is so strong that her arm and leg fall off because her twin is being tortured.
The bottom Line
The movie is bad but it really isn’t the worst movie and certainly not the worst horror movie. If you enjoyed Final Destination, Jeepers Creepers, or House of Wax, than really you might actually like I Know Who Killed Me. I think the reason it got such bad flack was that people were waiting for Lohan to make a flop. Don’t get me wrong she fucked up royally by getting a DUI the week before it came out so she couldn’t actually do any press for it. Really that is the reason to movie tanked so hard, the content is really just sub average not horrible. If you like bad horror movies you might want to try it out and on the plus side the soundtrack for it was actually really good.
