I Know Who Killed Me

Plot synopsis:
The quiet suburb of New Salem is being terrorized by a serial killer who abducts and tortures young women, holding them captive for weeks before murdering them. Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a pianist and aspiring writer, appears to be his latest victim when she disappears during a night out with her friends. She is later seen bound and gagged on an operating table as her hands are exposed to dry ice. As the days tick by, the special FBI Task Force convened to track the killer begins to lose hope of finding him before it's too late.
Late one night, a driver discovers a young woman by the side of a deserted road, disheveled and critically injured. The girl is rushed to the hospital, where Aubrey’s distraught parents, Susan (Julia Ormond) and Daniel (Neal McDonough), 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 she is not who they think she is, despite bearing bizarre wounds identical to those of the serial killer's previous victims, which include her hand and half of her leg cut off.
An FBI psychologist believes Dakota to be a delusional persona of Aubrey, and the agents speculate the persona is to distance and protect Aubrey from the events that happened. Examining Aubrey's laptop, they discover a short story about a girl with an alter ego named Dakota. In addition, a DNA test confirms that Dakota is Aubrey.
Unaware of this, Dakota explains away her injuries as various events that happened before she arrived in town. She begins to suspect she may be Aubrey's identical twin sister, and comes to believe her injuries are sympathetic resonance with her twin's wounds, in a stigmata-like fashion. However, Susan shows Dakota a video of her pregnancy ultrasound clearly revealing there was only one fetus in her womb. Dakota then confronts Daniel and asserts Susan's child died shortly after birth, and that Daniel took Aubrey from Virginia Sue Moss (another character from Aubrey's short story), a crack addict and leaving her with Dakota to raise alone.
Confused and terrified, Dakota starts seeing visions of a menacing figure slowly butchering his captive. One of these visions take Dakota to a nearby cemetery. After investigating the grave of Aubrey's recently murdered friend, Jennifer Toland (Stacy Lynn Gabel), Dakota finds a blue ribbon from a piano competition, with a message from Jennifer's (and Aubrey's) piano teacher, Douglas Norquist (Thomas Tofel). She is followed by Daniel, and declares "I know who killed me".
The two go, without FBI backup, to Norquist's home to confront him. Daniel heads into Norquist's house alone leaving a panicking Dakota in the car alone. Attempting to calm herself, Dakota refers to herself as Aubrey. Daniel is seemingly overpowered, and it is implied killed, by Norquist. Dakota, having entered the house, attacks Norquist in self-defense and cuts his hand off before being overpowered and tied up. Confused, Norquist asks why she has returned and exclaimed he had buried her (referencing an earlier vision Dakota had). Freeing herself, Dakota kills Norquist and heads into the nearby wood finding where Norquist had buried Aubrey alive. Having freed Aubrey, seemingly verifying Dakota's version of events, Dakota lies on the ground next to her.

Tags: dark, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist

Review:
Oh God. I went into this movie with a friend thinking it would be a cheesy, fun horror movie - just a good way to pass the time on a rainy day.Oh god, was I wrong.It's as if the director spent the film's entire budget acquiring Lindsay Lohan and disregarded everything else.
EVERYTHING within this film is bad - the scary parts aren't scary (or even remotely suspenseful), the dialogue is awful, the acting is questionable at best, and, I am very sorry to say that Lindsay Lohan's stripping/ sex scenes were not sexy at all.
I like so many other unsuspecting fools thought even with the bad reviews and cheesy look of the film (not to mention the fact that it's main star was Lindsay lohan) that this movie just might be a good thriller in the vein of Hitchcock Jesus I can't believe how wrong I was, the only person more wrong then me was the guy I watched it with.
Ha!this movie requires us to make up a new word for terrible just so we can properly describe this film basically it's like they couldn't write a real script so they filled in the blanks with torture porn imagery and Lindsay trying to be sexy.
I Know Who Killed Me. This movie helps explains some of Lohan's real life problems.
In an absolutely moronic plot, Lindsay Lohan plays a girl who gets kidnapped, found years later, and wakes up missing an appendage (and a brain apparently) and thinks she is somebody else.
No actress could have done well with this script and this not what Lindsay Lohan needs in her time of crisis.All I know is, I want 1 hour and 47 minutes of my life back and would rather be killed than watch it again!.
I joked to the person beside me that I hadn't laughed as hard since the first time I saw "Borat".Stylistically, the movie is a film school student's wet dream rife of "artsy" shots and recurring motifs.
I can say that Lohan's performance seemed rather bland and stale throughout, as though in the back of her mind she knew the movie was trite and looked at it more as a paycheck than a serious mark on her resume.Aside from the occasional, "I almost died laughing when....", I heard scarcely a good comment in the lobby after the film.
I watched "I Know Who Killed Me" on DVD only because I think Lindsey Lohan is a knockout and a pretty good actress.
I felt like taking a shower after watching this movie to wash the grime off.I hope this promising young actress gets her act together and chooses better material.
The movie has several ridiculously long scenes of Lindsay Lohan twirling around a pole like the seasoned professional she is, and an unconvincing sex scene, (both sans nudity) But I suppose if you have the imagination of a half-wit, you could probably spend a fair amount of "alone-time" with yourself in the movie theater.
And what I mean by "insultingly bad" is that you, as an audience member, should feel offended that filmmakers and screenwriters (like the ones who poured 4 months of their lives into this movie), actually think you are too stupid to understand anything, without being expressly told what to think and feel; or that an art film, by definition should have nothing open to interpretation.
This flick was supposed to put Ms Lohan's sexual antics to the top of the box office.Unfortunately, the script was so bad and the plot was trying to be something out of an Alfred Hitchock movie.
I just felt that this movie was a complete waste of time.If people want to see a really good sex thriller, try watching those late night movies on cable.
It's like the writer couldn't decide which avenue he wanted to take the movie down, gory violent thriller, or a drama/suspense movie, and in the end compromised with a boring, lifeless story with lots of blood and gore.And what was with all the blue items everywhere?
Honestly, I don't know if the writer/director of this film figured that no one would have the slightest idea of how real cops work, or if they just didn't want to put in the research to find out for themselves, but every scene with the cops was so unbelievable, and the actors portrayed them too like they'd never seen one before.
No plot, horrible acting (especially from druggie Lohan), pointless sex, and graphic scenes.I can't think of one good thing to say about it because it was so pointless.
I don't know what the point of the movie was at all, just a chance for Lohan to get money, which she probably didn't get much because no one saw this (I didn't even pay to see this, good thing too).All I can say about this crap, is stay away, save your time, and money.
The ending to me seemed abrupt, strange, and wasn't satisfying to watch at all.The supporting cast were good enough, but the main problem with this movie was it's ridiculousness..
how did this get out in Theatres...i just don't understand...the camera quality was horrible...the acting was horrible..the script was HORRIBLE...it was all over the place..some of the effects were unneeded and just made the movie extremely distracting....some parts of this movie did not make sense and was not realistic at all...the casting was not good...how was lindsey in this is absolutely made her look horrible...i believe that her this showed the path of where lindseys career is heading.
I was really excited to see this movie, thinking it would have gotten a lot more press if Lindsay hadn't had started acting all stupid so I thought i would give her the benefit of the doubt and check this out.I'M SORRY I DID.
I still cannot believe, months later, that I was forced to watch "I Know Who Killed Me", aka the worst film of the year (tied with "The Heartbreak Kid").Truly, I cannot fathom as to why people are so eager to call Lindsay Lohan a "great" actress - the girl cannot even pass for mediocre, at least not here.
LAUGHABLE is the perfect word to sum up this film; everything from the editing, the dialogue, the premise, and the acting from the overall cast (save Julia Ormond, who manages to take her scant lines and create a glimpse of character that could actually be worth caring about, if the rest of the film weren't so contrived).I cannot imagine a bigger waste of anyone's time when it comes to watching films.
Men and women alike with any taste or idea of what a solid film should like look with greatly dislike "I Know Who Killed Me." Please, don't listen to the rabid Lohan fans who insist IKWKM is artistic or even watchable - its not even worth the few laughs you'll get from watching a film that's so bad, its funny..
My friend and I were looking for a movie to see in the theater yesterday, everything I saw she didn't ad everything she saw I didn't, but one movie we didn't see was I Know Who Killed Me. We never heard of it, we actually for a minute didn't wanna see it because Lindsay Lohan was in it, but eventually we were just like "What the heck?".
So after seeing I Know Who Killed Me, I just was thinking of how much of a strange movie this was, but at the same time I didn't think it was all that bad, there were some things left unexplained and the ending was pretty lame, but I think over all, this was a thriller with good potential and just needed a little pick-me-up.Aubrey is a good girl who has strong potential to be a good writer and piano player, she has a good life, good home, loving parents, good friends, and a loving boyfriend.
Everyone calls her crazy and just tries to make her believe that she is Aubrey, but Dakota searches for the truth and wants answers.Like I said, I Know Who Killed Me turned out to be a little surprise of a film, I liked it personally, there were things that were confusing, but over all I think the plot kept me guessing and going.
Lindsay I would say did a good job, but the strip scenes at times were a little too much, just because we all know her personal life, so I think it would make us a little uncomfortable.
After seeing I Know Who Killed Me yesterday, surrounded by a New York/East Village crowd, I am getting pretty annoyed by the sadly anticipated reviews claiming to whoever might want to hear it that this movie is as much of a joke as Lindsay Lohan's latest "career" moves.Being familiar with miss Lohan's personal struggles much more than I am with her movies, I bought my ticket with a somewhat open-mind, even though after seeing the trailer (maybe the only bad element of the movie), I admit that I was basically expecting a teenage slasher movie.
Obviously, so did the critics but they won't have the decency to review the movie for what it actually turned out to be.From the little promotion we got, we basically were told that this would be Lohan's first "adult" role as a leading lady.
She's a teen actress playing a stripper, she knows it sounds bad and it makes the movie good.The ending might be open to interpretation, like most interesting endings always are (Mulholland Drive, Basic Instinct, etc.) but who killed the poor girls won't matter much by the end of this movie.
The psychological journey of Lohan's character is the central piece of the movie, and the foundations to it are its own comical elements.Of course, I referred to Lynch, Tarantino and Verhoeven (who interestingly enough suffered the same kind treatment after the camp classic Showgirls) but I would not go as far as saying that I Know Who Killed me has the same rare genius that will make it last through the years, but it absolutely delivered the cynical fun that comes out from somewhere in between utter stupidity and sharp wit.My little East Village crowd surprisingly was open-minded enough to clap the movie throughout the end credits.
Maybe Lindsay Lohan is not as guilty as the writer Jeff Hammond,or the director Chris Silverstone.The acting of Lindsay is not what the viewer wants to see.The screenplay trying to be special,but that is what was too disturbing,to be acceptable,The film is just boring,I'am personally just wondered just sex scenes,instead a good crime solving scenes.That is a real boring thing to see Lindsay when she have a table dance,or any other sex scenes,cause we know for sure,this is not a hardcore porn film,what is also not interesting for me personally.I just wanted to say,that is not enough if somebody think we only want to see some nude girls,in a film,so your rental money deserves something more..
My personal opinion of Lohan aside, this movie - like others (Dead Silence for one) relied heavily on effects that at times, become quite distracting.
However, the movie is easy enough to follow that people who don't like complex horror films can sit back, and enjoy the ride.
It has some entertaining parts (like the strip tease from the creepy gardener character), but overall, it is hard to think of Lindsay Lohan as a straight A student from small town America.
However, the movie, as well as Miss Lohan's performance takes a strong turn for the best when she transforms into Dakota Moss, the sassy stripper with a troubled past.
It just seemed like a movie suffering from an identity crisis - trying to be film noir, psychological thriller and gross-out horror flick.
When the movie started I knew it was going to try to seem smarter than it was, by the middle I had a headache from the bad acting and ridiculous story line, and the stupid, out of the blue ending couldn't come soon enough.
I hated every minute of this movie which, if I were an idiot killer with no back-story and a fetish with blue glass knives (I didn't know piano teachers also blew glass) I would torture my victims by making them watch it..
I didn't dislike this film because Lindsay Lohan was playing the lead role, but because the acting in general seemed like I was watching a soap opera.
If you're expecting "Mean Girls" or "Herbie Fully Loaded", you will need some therapy to recover from this one.I should mention that while there is no Lindsay Lohan nudity per se, there are some extremely raunchy scenes involving close shots of various body parts of Dakota's while she is wearing next to nothing and writhing around a stripper dance pole.
My favorite color happens to be blue, but after seeing this train wreck, I don't think I ever want to see another blue thing again.The script is lame-brained to begin with, and hearing some of these actors, especially Lohan, deliver these lines is just an indescribably awful experience.And then there were all the shots of gore and blood I found completely unnecessary (A word of advice: If you do want to see this, don't eat anything beforehand), not to mention the ridiculous twist near the end.
And Lindsay Lohan's acting, though not brilliant, was adequate and convincing.The directing in some of the dramatic dialogue scenes could have been tighter, with a bigger sense of urgency, especially towards the end, but I will be interested to see what director Chris Sivertson does next.7.5 out of 10.
A highly entertaining and dreamlike little thriller, I KNOW WHO KILLED ME is essentially a modern-day film noir about a horrific crime and a victim (Lindsay Lohan) who turns out to be someone very different than we think she is.
Lohan, in a nifty dual role, gives a very credible performance throughout, and I encourage anyone who sees the film to put pre-conceptions aside and try to look at the movie, and her work in it, with fresh eyes.
The real discovery here, though, is director Chris Sivertson who more than delivers on the promise of his earlier film, the incredibly disturbing drama THE LOST (see it when it comes out later this year.) I KNOW WHO KILLED ME is much more of a mainstream, commercial movie than THE LOST, but that's not a bad thing -- this is a genre film, pure and simple, and within the rules of that terrain, Sivertson & Co. deliver a strange and hypnotic little mystery that confounds expectations at every turn.
I think Lindsay wanted to make a movie where she could be a bad girl and break the good girl mold.
The big problem with that is that Lindsay was not very good as a bad girl stripper in the movie.
Well, let me just start by saying that, if Lindsay Lohan wasn't in this movie, a lot of people wouldn't be criticizing this.I saw it last night at a free screening and thought it was really good.
I've never been a fan of Lohan and I'm still not one but I do think she has good movies and can act.
If I allowed movie reviewers to sway my interest in seeing a movie, I'd miss a whole lot of great performances."I Know Who Killed Me" is an exciting roller-coaster ride that combines the best of several genres: thriller; horror; crime and mystery.
Lindsay wasn't cute, she was very naughty.This is an original, well written, well directed, well acted film.It's silly that some people are saying they don't like the movie because they weren't impressed with her strip dancing.
Yes it did have some over the top gory scenes, but isn't that a good thing for adult fans of the genre, i mean how come SAW became so popular and recommended, if you don't like gore then don't watch it, but don't give bad reviews of the film because you are too weak to stomach these scenes, i totally enjoyed it !!!
Very good as horror flick too - especially for women because Lohan won't be distracting your date.There were some plot reasons for assigning the main character a job as stripper but I think with 3-5 minutes more they could have changed the profession and avoided a lot of critical defamation.Overall it probably would have been a good idea to drop the stripper profession in favor of some other hard profession where weird, unlucky, hardcase personalities are accepted, targeted and not immediately believed by police -- maybe metermaid or cosmetic door-to-door sales.Any big serious movie with main character strippers will always be panned.
The people on these boards calling it 'i know who killed my career', and etc seriously need to go back and re watch, and put Lohan's personal life aside.
In the beginning of "I Know Who Killed Me", Lohan's first character, Aubrey is a high school student, reading a story to her classmates about her supposed alter ego, Dakota Moss.
I can understand why people were laughing, sadly i couldn't join them because i was too busy thinking, "what on earth is going on?" I've seen a few of these actors on screen before and they weren't that bad, but this movie just made them look like they didn't know how to act.
I can't give away the story even though it is lame but the only thing I can say is I knew more about Lindsey Lohan's personal life than I did about her movie character.
Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan) feels like half a person.
First time i saw it, i wasn't expecting Lindsay Lohan to actually do it and be good in it.
Lindsay Lohan proved that she can act in any movie and the movie will still be good.
Lindsay Lohan and the rest of the cast did an average job on the acting, but this seriously is one of the WORST movies I've ever seen!