Pretend Argento directed it, and it makes a bit more sense...

Doesn’t it? ;)

I think every film would make more sense if you pretended Argento directed it.

I’ve heard this discussed along these terms, or perhaps it was in terms of Lynch…anyways, enough to make me interested in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME way more than I ever expected to. A teensploitation MULHOLLAND DRIVE? Sure. No brainer.

Trauma was directed by Argento and it does not make any sense. It is also necessary to avoid any films starring L. Lohan.

It’s just the film is so obvious a mixture of giallo sensibilities with Lynchian-type bizarreness. Nowhere being a Mulholland Drive teensploitation – but it IS teensploitation all the same and it DOES have WTFness all the way through it. Plus, the film is chaotically, disgustingly beautiful to look at.

You know, this could be a pretty fun game actually. What films would be much better regarded among critics and cinephiles if they had been directed by X director?

I’m going to try and think of some.

95% of the people who say it’s an awful movie have never even seen it. That happens a lot, people having a negative opinion of a movie they never saw. IKWKM is watchable and has at least one visually beautiful scene that is kind of trippy.

""IKWKM is watchable and has at least one visually beautiful scene that is kind of trippy.""
That is EXACTLY what the stoners in high school used to say every week about Man From Atlantis. And Wonder Woman.

Add to “to do” list – Watch Wonder Woman stoned.

VERY stoned.

That is EXACTLY what the stoners in high school used to say every week about Man From Atlantis. And Wonder Woman.

So what, Francisco? So anytime a person uses that phrase it is invalid? Bullshit.

No, not what i was saying at all. It is just that I do not have to watch a film to know I will not like it. Life is too short.

No, you were insulting me and screw you.

Just how did I insult you?

If you can’t see it I really can’t help you.

Well, I was not. And if you can not see that….

Bad vibes. Booo.

I Know Who Killed Me is a very twisted sexy movie (I guess I have a bit of an amputee fetish)
and Art Bell is in it, plus the color scheme intense visuals mixed with a tend toward quiet performance is quite good. I enjoyed it a great deal.

Ok. I need to move this to the top of my queue before I read another word about it.

Wow. Whoa. Some very interesting stuff in this, especially the color design and the transitions between scenes. An impressive lack of regard for logic and a nightmarish world view. Very funny, too. The estranged niece of INLAND EMPIRE, BODY DOUBLE, INFERNO, and Scorsese’s take on CAPE FEAR.

Yeah, I don’t get the hate. It’s a stupid film with flaws narratively, but overall it’s very giallo-esque and atmospheric as hell. I can’t see what people don’t see in it. It’s so fun to watch.

I liked this film a lot, and I’ve been defending it for a while now. It has flaws, certainly, but it’s a stylish film that is almost like a giallo throwback. The cinematography is great; definitely influenced by Argento. And I didn’t think Lohan was bad. I think she could have a very interesting career if she made more movies like this. How much you wanna bet I Know Who Killed Me will become a major cult classic after decades of being trashed?

Sure did a better job of paying homage to the giallo than AMER did.

Hands down the best topic title I’ve seen the last couple weeks ,)

Just look at the visuals here:

Absolutely stunning that people don’t see it as a nod back to giallo.

i think that’s a nod back to Mulholland Drive not giallo…though it is a strikingly shot scene…it reminds me of cinematography of THE FIFTH CORD as well.

I see American post-war crime and noir films, but I can see the connection to Argento too as far as palette (esp. Susperia and Inferno)

Hey Jasper, how do you get MD out of it? :\

It’s got to be his obsession with twinning of main characters MULHOLLAND DRIVE, don’t you think?

I don’t know. It’s just.. I don’t see anything about Lynch’s film in this one. At all. Haha.