Do You Wanna Know a Secret?

Plot synopsis:
A college male receives a note under his dorm door that says "do you wanna know a secret?" He assumes it is from his girlfriend Beth (Dorie Barton). He goes into the hallway to find her and is killed by someone in a mask.
One year later Beth and her friends, including her new boyfriend Hank (Joey Lawrence), go on vacation in Florida. The group includes Oz (Thomas Anthony Jones), Tina (Leonora Scelfo), Nellie (Elsie Escobar) and Brad (Chad Allen). The first night Brad tries to hit on Beth, but she explains that they are just friends.
Brad is attacked on a sailboat while the others are in the house. His bloody shirt is found in the water, though his body is missing. The group sees a message on his computer: "do you wanna know a secret?"
One night while drinking, Tina kisses Hank. Beth refuses to talk to him until the next night when he saves her from getting roofied at a club. Beth goes outside the club for air, where she witnesses the boy who tried to drug her being murdered by someone in a mask. When the cops arrive, they find "do you wanna know a secret?" is carved in the boy's back. An FBI agent (Jeff Conaway) tells the kids not to leave the house, as they are all suspects for both murders.
The next day while Hank and Beth are showering, Oz is attacked in the kitchen. Outside at the pool, Nellie realizes that Tina's throat has been slit. Before she can call for help she is attacked from behind and falls into the pool. Oz regains consciousness, and sees the same message written on the wall in blood. He runs outside to find both Tina and Nellie dead. When the cops arrive, Oz is arrested for the murders.
The cop who arrested Oz is in the bathroom at the precinct when he sees the message on the wall. He is then murdered by the masked figure. Oz is released. Beth is waiting outside the police station when she sees a truck drive by. The driver is wearing the mask she remembers from the murder at the club. Hank is nowhere to be found so she follows the truck out to the glades and waits for Oz to meet up with her.
Oz and Beth search for the killer in the dark woods. They are separated and Oz is knocked out from behind. He wakes up in the basement of a church and hears Beth's scream.
Upstairs in the church Beth is tied up in a wedding dress and blindfolded. The man removes Beth's blindfold and his mask, revealing himself as Brad. Beth sees that the dead bodies of Tina, Nellie, and the pastor are set up in the pews, as if watching. Brad starts cutting Beth's dress open with a knife, when Oz shows up. Brad and Oz fight but Brad wins and ties Oz up again. Beth asks Brad why he killed everyone. He explains that the secret is he loves Beth so much he would do anything, including staging his own death and killing all the others. He then holds up Hank's severed head.
Beth secretly unties her hands and attacks Brad. He knocks her to the ground but Oz gets untied and attacks Brad. As Brad is about to kill Oz, Beth stabs him through his entire body. As Oz and Beth exit the church, Brad jumps up again and is shot by the FBI agent. The agent reveals that the dead pastor was also Brad's father.

Tags: murder

Review:
The only good thing about this movie (If anything.) is Joseph 'Joey' Lawrence..
Do You Wanna Know A Secret is one of the worst slasher movies out there.
(The only great ones were, Valentine, I know what you did last summer 1+2, Urban Legend 1+2 and H20.) Some weren't so bad but this one is awful.
Joseph Lawrence stars in this movie, and he's okay here but the rest of the cast are bad and I mean bad.
Well, in that case all you have to do is stay far, far away from "Do You Wanna Know A Secret", as it's just the umpteenth pointless post-"Scream" slasher with absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever.
The plot is extremely ridiculous; the characters are insufferably dumb, the gore-factor is negligible and the whole thing is just plain boring!
As you can derive from the title already, this film is mainly inspired by "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer", as the events take place in a similar setting and the killer's motivations are equally stupid.
One year after the still unsolved murder of her boyfriend, Beth Morgan, her new adulterous lover and four other simple-minded college students go to Florida to spend their Spring Break holiday in a fancy beach house.
Suffering through crap like this only makes you realize that the delightful spirit of the 80's slashers is gone for good..
Then this movie would have been a blast and a completely new vision on the horror scene.At the moment, a 2.7 rating is on IMDb and it doesn't deserve a that low appreciation.
Slashing all the way, like "I know what you did", and a who-is-it that when getting to the end convinced me of that who-and-why.No big surprise, just a nice flick to watch with a cola, popcorn and no urge to get a difficult plot, deep characters.
Way too tame teen slasher flick; they just don't wanna make 'em like they used too!.
If you're going to slice and dice a bunch of youthful ingenues as a plot premise, then you definitely need to cater to your audience in the tried and true tradition of such things.
Most audiences can forgive non-actors in horror films, but why would you gather together a bunch of hot bodies during the casting call and not have any of the pulchritude on display once filming started?
It's a big mistake not to provide some T and A in this kind of genre film; and if a beefy little stud like Joey Lawrence isn't going to display his ass, then the audience should get to see him gutted and gurgling!.
When I searched for a few of the actors in this movie, they had been in very few things that I had heard of, and that came as absolutely no surprise.
I can't decide whether to feel sorry for them for the embarrassment of being in a movie this bad, or to feel that they should never be offered another acting job again.
This movie was so bad that I actually sat through the whole thing almost praying it would have one minute of good movie time to justify the hour and a half that was wasted.
Set at a beach house where a group of college friends are celebrating vacation, this movie suffers from numerous problems making it not worth seeing.
Third, the rate of the film is very choppy and awkward to watch most of the time making suspense building very difficult, leading to very few surprises for the audience.
To the films credit, it is the only movie that I will ever say is the worst movie I have ever scene, and i've seen a lot.So, just like a bad joke you would have been all the happier never hearing, the next time someone asks you if you want to know a secret you will be yelling no, you really don't as you run in the opposite direction..
College kids renting a vacation house are slaughtered all because they know some deep, dark secret.Lame, and I mean lame slasher movie with no logic, no brains, and worst of all no T&A.
Slow and boring, this slasher film tries to be like I Know What You Did Last Summer, but fails on all counts.
Do you wanna see a pointless horror movie?.
This is one of the worst horror movies I have ever seen...
Was their one good death scene where you actually saw gore?
OK people, the movie is no Halloween or Scream but i don't thing it deserved that bad of a rap and I definitely don't think it should have gotten a 2.9 either.
I've seen movies with worse plot, worse acting and a worse ending than this one.
I went into thinking it was gonna be crap since everyone trashed the movie but to my surprise it wasn't THAT bad.
They Tried to make an "I Know what you Did Last Summer", but ended up making A "Scream".
But Hey, What do people Expect From a Horror Movie?
I actually see myself watching this movie a whole lot for some reason.
Well OK, I watched this movie a little over 2 years ago and now I pulled it out of the dusty shelf to watch it again and I must say, I actually think this movie is good.
This movie caught a buzz as the bootleg I Know What You Did Last Summer 3, much like Final Stab was to Scream 4, and well this movie isn't that bad.
I mean it had flaws and of course it would be laughable to release this in the theaters but still for a midnight popcorn flick, this movie is not half bad.
Plus it shows off Joey Lawrence's new beefy look though obviously even that hasn't won him any big Hollywood roles either......I feel bad for the man, he had such a career in the early and mid 90's with blossom, some Disney movies and the everlasting Lawrence brothers show.....Joey Lawrence was a bit player in the sitcom scene, but then like in a 360 degree turn, his career went south only doing low budget movies like this one.The movie also throws you off guard in, it makes you think between the crew, there really is a secret that someone knows, to only be disappointed in the end to find out the secret.
But also I am a sucker for college themes and I also in college went on spring break in a mansion sized beach house similar to the one in here so it just made me feel sentimental about this movie.A so-so slasher flick.
Joey Lawrence is good, the rest of it is bad!.
I will admit the only reason that i Really watched this film is because i Love Joey Lawrence!
Its an okay horror movie there are some parts that make you jump and you will never guess he killer.
Now i thought Joey Lawrence was actually quite good in this film he plays Hank Ford the typical hunky boyfriend, but still quite good, the only thing that lets him down is that his part is badly written (and thats hardly his fault is it?) Plus there are some NICE scenes where you see Him kick Boxing in a club and a sexy shower scene!
this incomprehensible film starts in connecticut (i think) with a scene stolen out of "exorsist 3" and then moves to florida (i think) where we're treated to all the fun trappings of direct-to-video horror, namely: rich kids with the run of a gigantic house, nudity-free sex, booze, racial profiling, "raves", random FBI involvement, goofy masks, murders unrelated to the plot, and horrendous music.
and it shakes me to the bone that i am about to write this -- joey lawrence is one of the strong points of the movie.
One of the best modern day slasher movies..
how come no one liked this movie?!.
the only thing i didn't like about it, was how did the killer get Nelly and Tina's bodies away, and Nelly's blood out of the pool under 30 seconds, and how did the killer walk right into the police station, the walk out, without being noticed, well i guess he could have changed because Beth saw the mask in his car.
As the hype over the Scream movies has passed, I feel like this movie has aged pretty well.
While I saw this movie as a child and didn't realize its shortcomings, today I certainly don't pick up a video-rental caliber rip off of a 90's slasher and expect it to be impressive.
In my opinion, Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
hit all of those notes and therefore is a passable movie.The highlights: I actually liked that they kept most of the kills off screen.
It helped this low budget movie stay believable and really helped amplify the impact of what we actually do see towards the end.
I won't spoil anything but I'll say that at the beginning of the final act I made a list of all the characters I thought would be the killer, and the person who really did it was half way down the list, with 3 or 4 characters I thought more likely.
One scene that calls to the movie's title has stuck with me for years.
They aren't utilized in any ways that make them seem important and are just there to let the meta-slasher formula run its course.In a post-Scream slasher, the best thing about the script is frequently meta references and in-jokes for horror fans.
you will want to watch this movie over & over again.
The Remaining living cast Members & film makers of Gone with wind should be shot for making this movie.
This mindless movie is a piece of crap and boring like the full house repetitions.
For all the people who want to see a great, exciting and cool horror movie shouldn't even think about watching this bunch of mindless work.
I mean I am not like grumping about every movie, but I was disappointed when I watched it.
**SPOILERS** Redicules slasher film that makes no sense at all with a killer running around dressed in a black robe and wearing what looks like a pull-over Peter Lorre rubber mask.
Were told early in the movie, almost the very first scene, that young Beth Morgan was in rehab due to heavy drug use after her boyfriend was murdered in Tennyson Collage about a year ago.It's also brought out that FBI Agent Sacker's (Jeff Conaway), who's obsessed in catching the killer,daughter was also murdered in Tennyson around the same time.
By the time the movie "Do You Wanna Know A Secret" is over it's never explained just what those two killings back in Connecticute has to do with the slaughter in Florida of some half dozen collage students a year later?
At spring break in the Sunshine State the six students spend their vacation at a beach house and before you know it they start getting knocked off one at a time.
Starting with computer geek Brad Clyton, Chad Allen, the killing even spill over into town with a number of people who have nothing to do with the targeted student including the police chief Gavin, Jack McGee, getting sliced open.
The masked killer saves Beth for last in this weird ceremony at a deserted church, in what looks like the Florida Everglades.
Trying to scare it's audience all the movie does is confuse and bewilder it with a number of not-too convincing slasher scenes.
Oz also had a vicious cut on is foot from a large splinter of glass that almost cut it in half and crippled him but later he miraculously recovered, after getting arrested for a murder he didn't commit, in fact he had it out two more time with the killer with him not as much as having a slight limp in his walk!
Beth's boyfriend, who loses his head over her, in the movie Hank Ford, Joseph Lawrence, is also very unconvincing as well as the two girls at the beach house.They together with with Beth Oz end up being the killers victims and then somehow disappearing from sight!
That seemed to have upset Beth even more then her boyfriend being murdered at the beginning of the movie!.
Do you guys wanna know a secret?.
Do you guys wanna know a secret?.
The first 30 minutes of the movie is based on a typical story setting; a bunch of so-called cool teenagers relishing their vacation in Florida and being themselves by behaving very much like the juveniles they are.
The second half hour of the movie gains a little momentum and begins to illustrate a start to the no- where-near unprecedented killings.
While they are busy partying, they slowly (and i mean SLOWLY) begin to get killed because they know some sort of silly secret.
One thing that did however amaze me about this movie, was how much betty (im not sure about her name..the blonde character) looks like reese witherspoon.
Another thing that amazed me about the movie was that it made me jump from my seat a few times.
A year later she's out, has a new boyfriend named Hank (Joseph Lawrence) and is about to spend Spring Break with Hank and four other mindless friends in a BIG, beautiful condo in Florida.
Naturally the killer pops up (for no reason) and starts killing again.Lousy slasher thriller--a textbook example of how NOT to do a low-budget horror movie.
And Jeff Conaway pops up in a small role doing a pretty good job.Logic lapses abound--after they realize a friend has been killed two of the girls casually talk about sex; Baston's non reaction to seeing a friend getting killed is kind of funny and WHAT happens to Lawrence?
I liked  this movie really much!
I kinda like movies when theres one person how kills a lot of people.
But i have to say i didn't like the girls in the movie.
There was maybe one that could act in this movie that was Joseph Lawrence.
The other things are that there are so many movies like this one about it.
OK, it's a Joe Lawrence movie, how good can it be?.
starring: Joey Lawrence, Chad Allen, Jeff Conaway, Dorie Barton, Tom Jay Jones, and Jack McGee.plot: Hank (Joey Lawrence), Brad (Chad Allen),  Beth (Dorie Barton), Oz (Tom Jay Jones), and two more friends go to florida for spring break.
Will they catch the killer before every teen in the town is sliced up?reveiw: This one has great actors, a great story, ok gore, hot actors, but no nudity.
And an other good actor who makes an apperance in this movie is Jeff Conaway.
And an other good actor who makes an apperance in this movie is Jeff Conaway.
If you want a good slasher with ok gore but sadly no nudity but you are teased then rent or buy "Do You Wanna Know A Secret?"!7/10..
If you want a good slasher with ok gore but sadly no nudity but you are teased then rent or buy "Do You Wanna Know A Secret?"!7/10..
As time goes by,we encounter more and more slasher flicks that have been rather entertaining.This dumb excuse for a slasher flick excludes all my expectations.I expected a predictable yet entertaining slasher movie along the lines of scream and I know what you did last Summer.What I got was a pathetic excuse for a slasher flick.This movie had no gore,no blood,no gorgeous blonde,and absolutely no plot.Just amateur acting..
The movie could have been a bit more suspenseful, but it was a typical slasher film.
The only serious acting in this was Joey Lawrence, the rest of cast was boring.
So I don't think he even expected anything serious out of this movie.
Although Joey has said that horror films are some of his favorite movies, I don't think this one will be a classic anytime soon..
Simply awful slasher, molded from the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER type of fodder, has beautiful wealthy college students spending spring break in a Florida condo being murdered one by one.
Chad Allen, cast against type as a very intimidating "friend" of the group(..who happens to disappear from the film first, setting up the idea that he's the first victim), has a tough hill to climb with his role, so steep he eventually stumbles, rolling uncontrollably with no end in sight.
Jeff Conaway, needing some cash I guess, has the beleaguered FBI agent role, whose daughter's murder motivates him to seek out the killer, leading him to Florida.
"Do You Wanna Know a Secret?" is a lame and fairly unexciting slasher.**SPOILERS**A year after a college massacre, students Hank Ford, (Joseph Lawrence) his girlfriend Beth Morgan, (Dorie Barton) and their friends Tina Webster, (Leonora Scelfo) Nellie Lopez, (Elsie Escobar) Oz Washington, (Tom Jay Jones) and Brad Adams, (Chad Allen) arrive in Florida for Spring Break.
When they continue to meet gruesome deaths, they piece together the clues and solve the killer's identity before they kill again.The Good News: There isn't a whole lot here that actually works.
The tension at not knowing who or where the killer is.
The main bloodshed acts in the house are pretty good, as there's several deaths all pretty close to each other.
All these, though, are the film's main points.The Bad News: This here is a really lackluster slasher with some major flaws.
This really negates much of the ending's impact, which wasn't that much to begin with as it takes forever to spill to the characters what the audience had known since the film started.
****SPOILER****In this bad riff on I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and SCREAM, Beth, played admirably by Dorie Barton, joins several friends on a Spring Break trip.
OK, a slasher movie.
a very, very stupid slasher movie.We got your stereotypical teenagers in a house thing going.
i swear this is the stupidest slasher movie i've ever seen.