I Know Who Killed Me

I Know Who Killed Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Sivertson
Produced by	Frank Mancuso, Jr. David Grace
Written by	Jeff Hammond
Starring	Lindsay Lohan Julia Ormond Neal McDonough Brian Geraghty Garcelle Beauvais Gregory Itzin Kenya Moore Rodney Rowland Jessica Rose Megan Henning
Music by	Joel McNeely
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Editing by	Lawrence Jordan
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)	July 27 2007
Running time	105 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$12 million
Gross revenue	$7,233,485
Official website
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile

I Know Who Killed Me is a 2007 thriller film starring Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, and Neal McDonough. The film was directed by Chris Sivertson. Based on the Screenplay by Jeff Hammon. Filming began on December 16, 2006 and finished in late February 2007. It was released on July 27, 2007. Tagline:

• If you think you know the secret...Think twice.
• Look For The Clues...

Plot

The quiet suburb of New Salem is being terrorized by a brutal serial killer who abducts and tortures young women, holding them captive for weeks before murdering them. Aubrey Fleming, a talented pianist and aspiring writer, appears to be his latest victim when she disappears without a trace during a night out with friends. As the days tick by, the special FBI Task Force convened to track the killer begins to lose hope of finding her before it’s too late. Then, late one night, a driver discovers the young woman by the side of a deserted road, disheveled and critically injured, pleading for help. The girl is rushed to the hospital, where Aubrey’s distraught parents, Susan and Daniel, wait by her side as she slips in and out of consciousness. When she is finally able to speak, she shocks everyone by claiming to be a down-on-her luck stripper named Dakota Moss who has never heard of Aubrey Fleming. Convinced Aubrey is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, her doctors, parents and law enforcement officials can only wait for rest and therapy to restore her memory. But after returning to her parents’ suburban home, she continues to insist that she is not who they think she is, despite bearing bizarre wounds identical to those of the serial killer’s previous victims. The FBI agents are further mystified when they search Aubrey’s computer and discover a short story about a girl with an alter ego named Dakota. When Dakota begins to suspect she may be Aubrey’s identical twin sister, Susan shows her a video of her pregnancy ultrasound clearly revealing there was only one fetus in her womb. Confused and terrified, Dakota starts seeing visions of a menacing figure slowly butchering his captive. Convinced that time is running out both for Aubrey and herself, Dakota confronts Daniel with a shocking truth that leads them on a frantic hunt for the killer. Aubrey and Dakota are twins, born to Virginia Sue Moss, a crack addict. Moss gave birth to them the same time the Flemings have their own child, who dies in the incubator. Daniel Fleming quietly raises one as his own daughter, paying Virginia over the years by mail. Dakota finds the envelopes and attempts to find her parents, when she suffers sympathetic resonance from her twin's wounds, and is found by the highway. It turns out that the two are stigmatic twins, with a strange mental connection that lets them share pain, communicate, and even share experiences, which explains some of Aubrey's stories. After investigating the grave of Aubrey's recently murdered friend, Jennifer Toland, Dakota finds a blue ribbon from a piano competition, with a message from Jennifer's (and Aubrey's) piano teacher. Dakota realizes that the teacher murdered Jennifer and Aubrey after they expressed intentions to quit, taking off their fingers and arms in a twisted retribution. Dakota and Daniel confront the killer. Daniel dies in the process, but Dakota finds Aubrey where the killer buried her alive and frees her. The movie ends with the two lying together on the ground, looking out into the night. This is Lohan's second film starring as both twins, the first being The Parent Trap.

Main cast

Lohan and Siverstone discussing her performance during production.

Reception

Box office

The film's opening weekend North American box office gross was $3.5 million,^[1] making it the 9th top grossing film that weekend. It went on to gross a total of $7,233,485 million in the U.S. The film's budget was around $12 million,^[2] and the film went on to gross over $8.6 Million dollars at the box office worldwide^[3] and by the end of December it has grossed $9.87 million on DVD rentals in the United States making a total of $17 million,thus bringing back its $12 million budget.^[4]

Reviews

Critics attacked the film for Lindsay Lohan's acting and for its violence, while defenders (mostly in foreign countries) interpret it as a truthful film on the darkest aspects of a society, and how people do anything to try to be the best at something".. Bloody-Disgusting.com, an American website, gave the film 4 out of 5 stars.^[5] I Know Who Killed Me also had bad reviews^[6] RottenTomatoes.com shows a 8% approval rating from critics on the U.S with the consensus statement: "Distasteful and ludicrously plotted".^[7] It currently holds a 16% rating on Metacritic, which indicates "extreme dislike or disgust."

Release dates

USA-27Jul,2007 UAE-3Jan,2008.[2][3] LEB-30Aug,2007[4]

Sex and Nudity

To prepare for her role as a stripper, Lohan visited strip clubs in New York, and California, and she met with strippers. Lohan did not dance topless in the film, although the sex scene is fairly explicit, showing her topless from behind. The MPAA give the film an R ^[8]rating for grisly violence including torture and disturbing gory images, and for sexuality, nudity and language. The beginning of the film has two scenes of topless dancers and Lohan dancing in front of them. In another scene a graphic picture of a dead girl with her (full) clothes off is shown on a morgue slab. One of the most controversial and talked-about scenes involves Lohan dancing on the pole for several minutes, although she remains clothed (albeit scantily so) throughout the scenes. ^[9]

Home Releases

DVD Release

The DVD was released in November 27 2007. The art cover of the DVD shows Lohan dancing and crying on a pole with two faces, the faces are the twins Aubrey Fleming and Dakota Moss. ^[10]. The Region 2 DVD was released in December 2007 with no extra material and different cover art. The alternate ending is a clip showing that the entire plot was actually written by Aubrey, as she was writing in the beginning of the film. The test audiences thought this ending was too expected, so it was cut from the film. By December the DVD has grossed $9.87 million^[11]

• Alternate opening
• Alternate ending
• Blooper Reel
• Extended Strip Dance Sequence
• Both Full Screen and Widescreen versions of the film
• Subtitled (Spanish, French, English)

Blu-ray Release

The same day of the DVD release the Blu-ray was also released. The film was highly well received by people making it the highest Blu-ray Disc for the month of November. ^[12].

• A restored version of the original film
• Alternate opening
• Alternate ending
• Extended Strip Dance Sequence
• Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
• Subtitled (Spanish, French, English)

Soundtrack

I Know Who Killed Me
Film score by Joel McNeely
Released	July 31, 2007
Recorded	2007
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	95 min.
Label	Varese Sarabande
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link

The score for I Know Who Killed Me, composed by Joel McNeely, was released on July 31, 2007.^[13] The soundtrack was well received by music critics and is surprising, since the film had mixed reviews.

Track listing

1. "Prelude for a Madman"
2. "Duality"
3. "Fairytale Theme"
4. "Daughter Is Dead"
5. "End of Innocence/Aubrey Is Gone"
6. "Mother's Grief"
7. "Search for Aubrey"
8. "Bus Stop"
9. "Spontaneous Bleed"
10. "Going Home"
11. "Jennifer's Room"
12. "Some People Get Cut"
13. "Investigating Stigmata"
14. "Mirror"
15. "Graveyard"
16. "I Know Who Killed Me"
17. "House"
18. "Dad Dies"
19. "Death of Norquist"
20. "Prelude/Reunited"
21. "Chopin: Valse Brillante"

References

External links

• Official site
• I Know Who Killed Me at the Internet Movie Database
• Official trailer at Apple.com