| 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 |
| 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.
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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), who Dawson takes a liking to, however 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 realize Agatha's cameraman being murdered. As the day progresses, more and more students are murdered. While in class, each of the group receive a letter from the killer, revealing he knows a secret about them. Each one of the group recall back to a time where they were drink-driving and hit a deer, before dumping it in the sea. This event lead them 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 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 Slabs after school. As the day progresses, each one of the group is attacked but manage 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 are then 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", who 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.
The film currently holds a 14% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 7 reviews (6 negative, 1 positive) and a 40% 'audience' rating.[1]
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".[2]