A remake of William Castle's 1965 film of the same name, I Saw What You Did is a tepid made-for-TV thriller that will most likely only be of interest to fans of horror babe Shawnee Smith, best known for the '88 remake of The Blob and the Saw franchise.
Smith plays goodie two-shoes high schooler Kim Fielding who invites friend Lisa Harris (Tammy Lauren) over to her house for the evening. With Kim's father away for the night, the girls (and Kim's younger sister Julia, played by Candace Cameron Bure) entertain themselves by making prank calls, picking people at random and telling them 'I saw what you did, and I know who you are'. Unfortunately, the man that Kim speaks to, Adrian Lancer (Robert Carradine), has just murdered his girlfriend and is understandably concerned about the mystery phone call.
It's a great premise but the script piles on the contrivances and improbability: in a really dumb move, the friends decide to pay a visit to Adrian because they like the sound of his voice (seriously, the guy could be in his 50s and weigh 350lbs, but they like his voice). And in an even more unlikely turn of events, Kim accidentally leaves her purse in his apartment, thus enabling him to find out where she lives. How girls this devoid of common sense made it as far as their teens is a mystery to me.
The ending is reasonably well handled, as the psycho -- a pyromaniac -- breaks into Kim's home and sets the place on fire, but this being a TV movie, director Fred Walton can only take matters so far, delivering zero gore (and no gratuitous shower scene).
