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Shriek If You Know What I Did
Last Friday the 13th (2000)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
5/25
5/25:
If anyone doesn't remember seeing Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th, that's because
it got lost in the shuffle after Scary Movie came out and instead became
a direct-to-video picture.
Anyway, I'm giving it a very, very weak '4' because there are some good ones in a seemingly endless long line
of jokes. Using Scream and
I Know What You Did Last Summer as the foundation,
at least a dozen of movies are parodied such as Child's Play,
Christine, Titanic,
Psycho II, Porky's,
Grease, and Batman.
Even several popular TV shows and commercials aren't immune. Among the best is the pop-up bubbles from VH1. They
were actually fun to watch back then. I like the opening scene, but the movie went downhill a lot after that.
Trying hard to recover for the longest time, there's too much mediocrity to keep the momentum from coming back. Of
course, there's the mask revelation that takes a while until the audience finally finds out who's the slasher. Be
sure to wait for the completion of the closing credits to find out the fate of everybody; it's funny.
All in all, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th is
Airplane! of the slasher genre.