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As was requested today we take a look back on I Know Who Killed Me. It was released in 2007 and stars Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, and Brian Geraghty.

At the start of the film it is revealed that a serial killer roams New Salem. The killer tortures young women after abducting them and kills then after a few weeks. Aubrey Flemming (Lohan) wants to be a writer and is a talent pianist. Flemming decides that she wants to stop playing the piano to focus on her writing full time. Additionally, she appears to be a victim of the killer as she disappeared. A special FBI Task Force is brought into try and locate Flemming’s whereabouts before she dies.

One night a driver sees Aubrey on the side of a road. She gets rushed to the hospital. Her parents, Daniel (Neal McDonnough) and Susan (Julia Ormond), are at her bedside as she goes in and out of consciousness.
When Aubrey speaks she claimed to be a stripper named Dakota Moss. She is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder order, which means that until her memory returns she can not help the FBI Special Task Force. This leads to the decision to being her back to her parents house. While there Dakota Moss insists she is not Aubrey Flemming even though her wounds match those of the other victims of the serial killer. The FBI look at the laptop belonging to Aubrey and find a short story about a girl who has an alter ego named Dakota Moss.

At this point Dakota starts to think that she could be an identical twin sister to Aubrey. Her mother shows her an ultra sound video of her pregnancy where it shows that Susan was only pregnant with one child. Dakota has some visions of someone brutally attacking someone who is being held captive. After theses visions she confronts David and tells him that she and Aubrey are indeed twins. They are daughters of Virginia Sue Moss, a crack addict who gave birth to them as the same time Virginia was giving both to her and Daniel’s child. Their child passed away in an incubator so Daniel bought one of the twins and raised one of them as his own daughter. He has been paying Moss for the purchase over time using the mail as a means to do this without his wife finding out. Dakota locates the envelope with a payment in it for Virginia goes to try and find her when suddenly she has a sympathetic resonance from the wounds of Aubrey and finds her by a highway. As it turns out not only are twins, and they are stigmatic twins who have a psychic connections which allows them to communicate with one another and she experiences.

Daniel and Dakota go to confront the killer and on their way there they go to the grave of a murdered friend Jennifer Toland and discovers there is a blue ribbon there from a piano competition along with a note from their former piano instructor. At this point she realizes that Douglas Norquist, her former piano instructor, killed Jennifer and abducted Aubrey after they said they were going to stop taking piano lessons. In an act of revenge Norquist removed their fingers, a leg, and an arm. Dakota says “I know who killed me”, thus explaining the name of the film.

Dakota and Daniel confront proceed to Norquist. Daniel dies in the process. However, Dakota cuts off Norquist’s hand and stabs him in his gut and neck with blades belonging to him. She then finds Aubrey where Norquist buried her alive and sets her free. I Know Who Killed Me ends with the twins lying together on the ground.

There is a reason that in 2008, the film won eight Golden Raspberry Awards, a new record in the following categories: Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Lohan), Worst on Screen Couple (both the characters Lohan plays), Worst Remake or Rip-Off, Worst Director, Worst Screen Play, and Worst Excuse For a Horror Film.
While this isn’t the worst movie I have ever seen, it’s up there. The acting is horrible, specifically Lohan’s. The directing and the script are bad. The plot makes absolutely no sense at all. On a scale of one to five stars, with five being the highest and one the lowest, I Know Who Killed Me earns negative ten stars.

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