WL - I Still Know What You Did Last Summer - Opening Analysis

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) Danny Cannon 

Unlike the last film this one starts out with 5 lenghty company idents which take up around to minutes. The titlles shows and screaming and voices are heard in the background which is quite affective. The shot fade in quickly on a close up of a statue which looks as if its crying. Theres a close up of a woman in a misty church which cuts to an extreme longshot establishing shot of the woman in an empty misty church but we still dont see her face. She goes into a confesion box which is framed well through the grating in the wall.

She talks and there are subtitles played over due to the wispering. She provides exposision on what happend and how she killed a man and nobody else knows about it. She talks about having dreams about the killer and her friends. She tells the priest the killers name 'Ben Willis'. The priest turns to her and tells her he know what she did last summer and smashes through the wall and she screams and wakes up in the middle of her classroom. She talks to her friend Will about whats been happening. Suddenly a passer bye on a bike sets of some fireworks as a false scare and she screams again. Its the anniversary of when what happend last summer occurd. Throughout this you get the sense she is a final girl through church and books and the brown hair. You get the impression theres some love interest between these two characters as they leave each other. 

She has another discussion with another friend who was involved in what happend but they argue and he leaves. The teen apppears to be living on her own in isolation and looks distressed throughout the opening. She has a photo of her friend who im guessing dies in the previous film to show a bit of exposision. Again this opening dosent have a clear ending and no titles are played. Overall the start has a sombre and meloncholic atmosphere with a couple of false scares to raise the tension at the start.