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Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)


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hahaa
Review date: 2008-03-01 Rating: 8 out of 10

i thought this was a surprisingly funny film!i'd never heard of it before and just happened to spy it in the bargain bin at the local blockbuster. i'm glad i did. The thing i liked about this film is that everywhere you look in each scene there are clever, yet subtle hints at other horror films. You have to look closely to find them but its a really funny production and i'm glad i own it!

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Definitely Inferior To Scary Movie
Review date: 2008-02-01 Rating: 4 out of 10

With the tagline "If You Liked Scary Movie, You'll Love This!" Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th, straightaway has a lot to live up to (as personally I feel that the Scary Movie saga is nothing less than exceptional.) Sadly however Shriek disappoints in more ways than one.

The film is a spoof comedy that follows a sexy reporter (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) who has a knack for getting into tight situations. She teams up with a bumbling mall cop (Tom Arnold) and together attempt to catch a rather clumsy killer who is intent on killing off the most popular kids at Bulemia Falls High School. Initially I thought that Shriek was going to be a great film. It has a really good and genuinely funny opening sequence and for the first half hour or so, I sat here believing that I was in for a comedy treat. Alas it never came. Don't get me wrong as there were a reasonably good number of reasonably good jokes, but I found them to be a tad predicable. And in some cases the jokes were just not funny at all (for example when Boner has a heart attack but all the Viaraga he took stopped him from dying? I just don't see why that was funny.) Whereas Scary Movie kept you interested and kept making you fall of your seat in laughter, the comedy of Shriek is far more passive and visual. I normally laugh at anything, but I found myself quickly becoming bored and being left unsatisfied. The plot development is basic and again predicable and the acting from most of the cast leaves a lot to be desired.

It wasn't all disastrous, as I already said some of the jokes were good, and I liked a few of the characters (such as the principal and the Nurse) who were inventive and well thought out. Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh giving Shriek a two star rating, but I can't help think that the film could have been, and more to the point, should have been so much better. So if you're bored, or you're just looking for a film to stick in your dvd player to pass the time, a film that won't overly stimulate you, then by all means give Shriek a go. Otherwise look elsewhere.


Has its moments, but they're too few and far between
Review date: 2007-05-20 Rating: 6 out of 10

Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th has its moments, but by and large this spoofalicious film is exceedingly average in terms of the laughs it manages to induce. Still, you have to appreciate the effort that went into it, as SIYKWIDLFT sinks its parody hooks into a vast number of genres: teen slashers, teen comedies, teen TV dramas, Baywatch, TV commercials, and more. If you go to IMDB, you'll find a listing of movies referenced here - although even this long list cannot possibly be complete. Even the likes of Lassie, Grease, and Chariots of Fire aren't safe from the satirical hands of the film's writers, and you can't tell me you ever expected to see Chariots of Fire satirized in a dumb horror comedy. That's the highlight of the whole film for me.

Shriek and Scary Movie were made at basically the same time, so don't go thinking Shriek is a tired rip-off of the tired rip-off that is Scary Movie. Scary Movie just happened to be released first, relegating this film to direct-to-video limbo. These are very different films, though - even though they were both constructed around the Scream concept. Shriek isn't as raunchy, and I think it's probably also the funnier movie of the two. Here, following a parody of the famous Scream opening scene, the story settles on the shoulders of four teenaged friends who all get notes from the Killer in the same vein as the teens in I Know What You Did Last Summer, even the new kid at school, Dawson Deery. Bulimia Falls High School is quite a place, a school where Chucky roams the hallways, Rose Marie (as Mrs. Tingle) and Partridge Family matriarch Shirley Jones (as Nurse Kevorkian) mold the minds of the young, and Coolio heads the administration (as the pimped-out Administrator Formerly Known as Principal Interest). Tom Arnold shows up as Deputy Doughy Primesuspect, while Tiffani-Amber Thiessen is the empTV reporter trying to exploit the murders for her own professional gain

If you're really into parodies like this, you'll not want to let your attention drop for more than a few seconds, as there is always something going on in the background - the Killer running around unnoticed by all, the principal making all kinds of crazy announcements (including this classic description of the upcoming band fundraiser: "liquor in the front, poker in the rear"), and various references to other films and TV shows. Still, despite all this effort and several genuinely funny moments, Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th has a lot more hits than misses. It all balances out to a pretty average comedy.

please no
Review date: 2006-12-11 Rating: 2 out of 10

spoof comedies,we all love them,dont we?,well yes,if they are done well,this movie isnt one like that,instead what you get is a film that runs out of steam after the opening credits and crawls along with a desperation that is worthy of being put down to end the misery,a poor script,acting that is shocking and lacking any charm makes this one of the worst films i have ever seen.

A Gulity Pleasure!
Review date: 2006-10-16 Rating: 8 out of 10

If you're excepting SHRIEK IF YOU KNOW WHAT I DID LAST FRIDAY THE 13TH (2000) to be a masterpiece of cinema, then stay 100% away. But if you're looking for a stupid but funny film to pass the time, then this is the film to watch.

Five high-school teenagers are being stalked by a bumbling mask killer while a sexy female TV news reporter falls for a mall cop who's in search for the killer.

This gulity pleasure spoofs SCREAM (1996), I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997), GREASE (1978), PORKY'S (1982) and some others. To be truthful, I found this more enjoyable than the four SCARY MOVIE films (2000-2006)!

A good way to past the time if you want to watch a so-bad-it's-good film.

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Actor(s):
Harley Cross
Kim Greist
Simon Rex
Chris Palermo
Aimee Graham

Creators:
Aimee Graham (Primary Contributor)
Chris Palermo (Primary Contributor)
Andrew Ooi (Producer)
Doug Blake (Producer)
Harold Bronson (Producer)
Joel Morrish (Producer)
Kai Ephron (Producer)
Joe Nelms (Writer)
Sue Bailey (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781588171269
Binding: DVD
ISBN: 1588171264
Number of items: 1
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen,
Release date: 2001-02-27
Universal product code (UPC): 031398757825
Region code: 1
Running time: 86 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2000
Language: English (Original Language)

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