by Donna Reynolds

Created on: January 04, 2009   Last Updated: January 05, 2009

It amazes me that out of so many articles not one person found this movie in any way good. In fact, it seems as though everyone is rating Lindsay Lohan and not her movie. I went into this movie not even expecting to watch it all, being that I'm not a huge fan of her acting. I actually was only going to record it for my mother to watch and couldn't get the VHS tape to rewind before the movie started. And yes I still use the good old fashioned VHS tapes. I'm planning to get TIVO soon. But that is not the issue at hand. Within the first five minutes I was so pulled in that I sat down on the couch, only getting up once to make popcorn and grab a glass of green tea.

For those who didn't like the story I have to wonder if any of you went in knowing that it was a psychological thriller and not a horror movie. Psychological thrillers and horror movies are far different from one another. Psychological thriller is, like horror, a specific sub-genre of the expanded thriller genre. However, the psychological thrillers often incorporate a little mystery as well as the elements typically expected of the thriller genre. Generally, thrillers focus on plot over character which is why I believe that many of you were led astray. You expected to see intense, physical action and this was not the case with I Know Who Killed Me. The reason it lacked all the thriller action you expected was because psychological thrillers tend to leave the suspense to be created by multiple characters preying upon one another's minds. In the case of this movie the suspense comes from within one solitary character (which would be Aubrey) and said character must resolve a conflict within their own mind. Usually, this conflict springs from trying to cope with something that has happened to them in their physical state. The conflict within Aubrey, as with many other psychological thriller characters, was made more vivid with physical manifestations and physical torture of the characters at play.

Horror movies, which is what many of you seem to think this movie was labeled, are movies with the sole purpose of trying to "get a rise out of you", or scare you. There are usually supernatural elements involved, you know, those things that can't possibly be real. Some good examples of horror movies are Dracula, Child's Play, Psycho, The Omen, Halloween, Carrie, and Nightmare on Elm Street (which quite frankly gave me nightmares as a kid). In no way was I Know Who Killed Me ever suppose to inflict feelings of fear.

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