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I Saw What You Did (1965)

Rate: 8
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1/25: You may see Joan Crawford on the cover of I Saw What You Did, but she isn't the star.

She has a small role and is shown killed by being stabbed in the belly at her ugliest that's replete with caterpillar eyebrows and stacked jewelry around her neck that resembles a chandelier. How her character is so naïve to believe that she can blackmail the killer into marrying her if she'll keep what he did as a secret is beyond me.

Thus, Andi Garrett and Sara Lane have the honors of dominating the show from start to finish as two unbelievably stupid teenage girls who make prank calls to various strangers who are randomly picked out of a telephone book. Of course, bad things happen, and they manage to land a killer who's played by John Ireland. No matter what, the catchy premise sets the film up as a black-and-white thriller.

Yeah, there's a moment in the shower which is straight out of Psycho, but that's the farthest it goes. Therefore, this is the best film that William Castle had done in his career. It's much better than a 1990 film called Lisa. Don't be fooled by the picturesque estate owned by the Mannerings as it was all constructed on a sound stage with the help of a fog machine.

By the way, what the girls did is extremely illegal today. Take one scenario from the film as an example. Somebody randomly calls a woman and says that she's being cheated on her husband with the caller herself. Now, what if the wife gets upset and decides to kill her husband? That shit will land the prank caller in prison for felony murder.

All in all, if you want to see a fun, foggy suspense picture by William Castle, then I recommend I Saw What You Did.