Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth

Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth
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Directed by	John Blanchard
Produced by	Stephen Nemeth Andrew Ooi
Written by	Sue Bailey Joe Nelms
Starring	Tiffani-Amber Thiessen Tom Arnold Coolio Julie Benz Harley Cross Majandra Delfino Simon Rex Danny Strong
Music by	Tyler Bates
Cinematography	David Miller
Editing by	Richard LaBrie
Studio	Rhino Films
Distributed by	Lions Gate Films
Release date(s)	October 17, 2000 (2000-10-17)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million

Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth is a 2000 American direct-to-video parody film directed by John Blanchard. Several mid and late '90s teen horror films are parodied, as are the slasher films of the '70s and '80s, including the Scream films (1996–present), Friday the 13th (1980), Halloween (1978), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) as well as other non horror films. It is often compared to Scary Movie, a more commercially successful horror spoof from the same year (which coincidentally had as one of its working titles "Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween"). Although there are many different films that are parodied, the film follows the plot of "Scream" very closely.

Plot

While in her house alone dimwitted teenager Screw (Aimee Graham) is attacked by "The Killer" (Chris Palermo). While being chased, Screw dies from electrocution via a bug zapper. The killer, feeling disappointed that he wasn't the cause of her death, lights up a cigarette, leading to the melting of his Jason Voorhees mask into a Scream mask. The next day, new kid Dawson Deary (Harley Cross) signs up at Bulimia Fall High School, meeting up with a new group of friends including Boner (Danny Strong), Slab (Simon Rex), Barbara (Julie Benz) and Martina (Majandra Delfino), to whom Dawson takes a liking, though he is not sure if she is a lesbian. While the group discuss the death of Screw, they remain certain they are safe in school, not noticing the chaos that surrounds them, including a nuclear bomb being built and the killer attempting to murder a student.

The group encounter "EmpTV" reporter Agatha (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) who accuses Dawson as the killer, having already written a best-selling pop-up book about the murders. They then meet Barbara's brother, town sheriff Doughy (Tom Arnold) who is working to find the killer; however, he believes Screw's death was a harmless prank. As the group talk, they do not notice Agatha's cameraman being murdered. As the day progresses, more and more students are murdered. While in class, each of the group receives a letter from the killer, revealing he knows a secret about them. Each of the group recalls a time when they were drunk-driving and hit a deer, before dumping it in the sea. This event leads each to keep their own secret; Martina not giving her grandmother laxatives, Boner accidentally causing his brother to be killed in prison, Slab smoking his uncle's ashes and Barbara having sex with multiple guys, resulting in many STDs. Meanwhile, Agatha and Doughy continuously flirt with each other.

As the group meet up, Dawson gets a letter too, as he was in fact run over by the others while dressed up in a deer costume. The group decide they should spend the night in a secluded house, so arrange to go to Slab's after school. As the day progresses, each of the group is attacked but manages to escape. The killer confronts Principal Interest (Coolio), but he electrocutes himself in a bathtub.

At night, everyone goes to Slab's party. Boner takes an unconscious girl up to a bedroom so he can lose his virginity. The killer attacks him, but Boner suffers a heart attack before the killer can murder him. Martina goes over the rules of a parody movie, before Barbara is chased outside by the killer. However she suffers an allergic reaction to a bee sting before the killer can murder her. As the rest of the party leave, Martina makes a move on Dawson, before they find Slab has abused steroids, causing him to explode. Martina and Dawson then are chased by the killer, as Agatha and Doughy play strip poker nearby instead of investigating the murders. Martina and Dawson defeat the killer as Agatha and Doughy arrive. The killer is revealed as Harding, Doughy's "evil twin cousin", whom Doughy is going to let away with the murders, but Agatha accidentally shoots Harding before leaving Doughy for a pizza boy. Martina, Dawson and Doughy leave the house, where they find Boner is still alive and finally loses his virginity to a nurse. As Martina and Dawson leave, they get a call from a new killer.

Cast

• Aimee Graham as Screw Frombehind, a popular student; she is the first to be killed, dying in the first 4 minutes of the film
• Chris Palermo as The Killer
• Kim Greist as Mrs. Peacock
• Harley Cross as Dawson Deary, the new kid and the hero
• Simon Rex as Slab O'Beef, the dumb, illiterate, steroid-addicted jock
• Coolio as Principal Interest or The Administrator-Formerly-Known-As-Principal, a reference to the artist Prince
• Danny Strong as Bonner "Boner", the neurotic guy that is constantly trying to lose his virginity
• Julie Benz as Barbara Primesuspekt, the stereotypical blonde
• Majandra Delfino as Martina Martinez: The punk girl who looks like Maria DeLuca (also played by Delfino) from Roswell
• Steven Anthony Lawrence as Chucky, a student in the film that resembles the evil doll from Child's Play
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen as Hagitha 'Hag' Utslay, a TV anchorwoman from "EmpTV"
• Tom Arnold as Doughy / Harding, Doughy's "evil twin cousin"; Harding is revealed to be the Killer
• Mink Stole as Madame La Torneau
• Rose Marie as Mrs. Tingle, a substitute teacher who delivers lectures tying the Holocaust with Frankenstein
• Artie Lange as Mr. Hasselhoff;the swimming coach
• Shirley Jones as Nurse Kevorkian, the "School Nurse/Funeral Director"
• David Herman as Mr. Lowelle, a sex-education teacher who refuses to teach Southern Baptists
• Alanna Ubach as Ms. Grossberg

Reception

The film currently holds a 14% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 7 reviews (6 negative, 1 positive) and a 40% 'audience' rating.

Larry Getlen from FilmCritic.com gave the film 1½ stars out of 5, saying the film "drift[s] without a storyline to follow or a character to care about" and was riddled with "infantile sex and fart jokes or gags that are just plain lazy".

External links

• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth at the Internet Movie Database
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth at AllRovi
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th at Rotten Tomatoes