I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer
| 21 August 2008 (USA)
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A cricket team are dispatched by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for a torment he endured 20 years earlier.

Reviews
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
R. Nathan Hund ...as long as you know it's a "B" slasher movie. If you don't know anything about cricket, I doubt you'll like it. But if you know as much as the average Aussie- and that's why the Ozploitation works- then it's pretty funny. Every piece of cricket kit is exploited to great effect. Lots of cricket jargon; it doesn't come off as pedantic or elitist, it just uses all those odd images to do something very cricket. In a B slasher movie. Isn't that worth the price of admission? If you're a cricket nutter it is!It never gets above its station. And if you want a scary B-movie for your date, well, you might just bowl a maiden over! And if you didn't get that last joke, you probably won't like the movie. A solid 6/10 in my book. As to the negative reviews, I can see how if you knew little or nothing about cricket how it would be a real yawn.
ironhorse_iv Honestly, I didn't care for any of the characters in this film. So when they were soon killed off by the killer. I spent most of the time yawning where suspense was supposed to be. How can I take this movie seriously when one of the victims was killed by choking on a jock strap and another one running nearly nude in bondage gear? The violence is very over the top even the gore can't be taken serious, when how one the guy's "intestines" were obviously just 10 strands of sausage links? The FX shots are bad, as the splattered blood in the bathroom always disappears, making it look faker than it already did. The movie has the nerves to tease the audiences. In one scene, somebody picks up a chainsaw and look at it. I was thinking "Oh, this will be used later on. That's why we're being shown it now." But then nothing. Then another scene had a guy about to set another guy on fire that went nowhere. This movie is full of teases and not follow thru plots. It's said the DVD, it's a horror comedy, but the movie is not funny nor does it seem like a horror comedy. Everybody plays it the roles too straight that I didn't figure out it supposed to be funny. Let me state out about the title of the film. This film has nothing to do with any of the America 'I know what you did last summer' horror series. So I don't know why they had this title. It's no way parodying those films. It seems to sucker up viewers into seeing their film, mistaking it for the far more popular 'I know what you did Last Summer'. Film by an Australian-British crew, this low budget horror satire flick is about a cricket team being killed off by a killer known as Phil Phillips (Otto Heutling) because as a kid, Phil suffered a life-scarring memories of being bullied. He kills his victim in cricket relation ways, such as putting nails in an athletic cup supporter. It's a bit hard to take the killer seriously when he dresses like the Fifth Doctor from Doctor Who. Director Stacey Edmonds stars in the film as a cop who must team up with another arrogant detective (Jai Koutrae) to set out to find the killer before it's too late. In my opinion, it's already too late. It took two years to film so they had plenty of time to fix it up and yet the movie when finish, sucks. The film tries too hard on color grading as the film footage looks like it melt in the sun. There was also some a pointless camera shake to the film giving the movie a look like it's filming during an earthquake. The acting is poor, as I hear them reading out their lines. The sound was pretty appalling as it get loud in some scenes and soft spoken in others. Then there is awful cursing that would make a sailor says what was the point of that. There is an overt homage to the 1986's James Cameron's film Aliens ending that really out there. At less, Mortal Sin as the film soundtrack is a nice touch. It mixed poorly with the film itself. The movie suffers from really bad editing. Some scenes last way beyond their natural length to the point that it become awkward. There is a lot of pointless fillings such as driving intercut with people doing nothing. There is a worthless woman nudity shower scene that would jump kick the perverts out there. Don't worry women, there are plenty of stupid male masturbation and crotch shots scenes that you can kick your rocks off. All of them pretty dumb. I do like the split-screen suspense, but it felt lost. When use correctly split-screen extensively to depict the many simultaneous events, enhancing the movie's real-time element as well as connecting its multiple story lines. It can show actions occurring simultaneously, but in the split-screen in this film. It's all the same shot. I know they were going for Director Brian De Palma's style, but it didn't work. Then there is the twist that comes out of nowhere. It was alright, but gees, this is a bad tribute to B-movie Ozploitation filmmaking. For 75 minutes, it's a short film, but in my opinion, it's still a waste of time, like watching real cricket. The DVD has some extras, like behind-the-scenes of the low budget gory effects and full uncut version of the shower scene. It's really really worth the price, if you find this movie in the dollar bin at Wal-Mart. I wouldn't pay any more. I wouldn't bother buying it if I even wanted to see it. I would just borrow it from somebody. Well it was certainly a lot better than the follow up "I know how many assists you had this season". Whatever its intentions 'I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer" doesn't deliver.
craighepworth I have been watching slasher films since I was a kid, to say I've seen some rubbish in my time is putting it mildly, but this film has achieved something great in my eyes....it's the WORST film I have EVER SEEN and that's including all of the straight to video junk of the 80s which is rated 1 star on here.To say this film is terrible is like saying Hitler was a bit nasty. I'm a playwright and if I ever wrote anything this bad I would want everyone around me to tell me I should quit....and fast.Nothing in this movie makes sense, nothing is good, the Lighting, the Direction, the Sound, the Cinematography, the Acting, the story, the Suspense, the Humour ....hell even the costumes were bad.As a slasher it fails at every turn, not one of the kills are well thought out, shot well or acted well. The lead guy (the Detective) is the most unlikeable hero (I was rooting for him to die) and the 'Twist' at the end was so naff I wanted to rip my own eyes out.The shower scene had one of the worst body doubles I've ever seen and as far as shower scenes go it would seem more in place in a slasher (a bad one) from 30 years ago.Most of the victims (grown men) pretty much sat there whilst the killer murdered them, not really fighting back and it looked ridiculous. The man who was getting his hair cut was a big muscle guy and instead of fighting back the oh so scary guy in cricket gear he just sat there.....so much for butch Aussie men.It had the typical 'let's insult the brits' as most Aussie films do (get over it all ready) and the hairdresser characters sexuality was questioned (yawn).The 'visual effects' shots were so bad, I've seen better in short film that were made for £10 and the gore was beyond stupid (and fake looking) The cast ranged from bad to bloody awful and the Director and writers should be ashamed for coming up with such garbage. Don't get me wrong I love slasher/comedy genre pics, I even like the tacky ones like Prom Night, Graduation Day, Silent Night Deadly Night etc but they all look like Oscar winners compared to this, this one does not just scrape the bottom of the barrel, it digs down deeper.The biggest sin of all though is one thing a slasher film should NEVER be no matter how bad or good it is is boring......this one is coma inducing.The name of this film is what will get people to rent it but PLEASE PLEASE Don't, you would have more fun staring at a blank wall.It did have one good thing going for it.....it was short AVOID AT ALL COSTS
david-thekrug-hess Firstly, what a weekend. Freakshow programmers did themselves proud - Alien Raiders, Battle of the Bone, Vlog, Shadowland and I Know How Many Runs etc. A real diverse bunch of movies."I Know How Many..." is a micro-budget movie from Australia, made from start to finish it seems by 2 folks; Doug Turner and Stacey Edmonds. Kudos to them for getting this film over the line and finished to such a high standard."An evil, imposing cricketer returns 20 years after being bullied to kill his ex-teammates" - can't really go wrong with that premise! Although I admit the cricket theme went over my head, the film stuck to the slasher norms. Was more horror than comedy - the splashy gore was fun, and the nudity mandatory. The comedy was more of a giggle/chuckle rather than laugh-out-loud - I would have preferred a more "Shaun of the Dead" style comedy, but hey, you can't have everything.For a low budget film, it looked and sounded great - as an aspiring filmmaker, I'm hoping they do a similar making-of as the "Broken" short film (google "What is Broken?").As definite must-see for fans of slasher movies, horror/comedies and aspiring filmmakers! Here's hoping they get distribution in the US - I can't get enough of this Ozzie horror.