I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer

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I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer
Directed byStacey Edmonds and Doug Turner
Written byStacey Edmonds and Doug Turner
Produced byStacey Edmonds and Doug Turner
Starring Jai Koutrae
Music by Dallas Johnson
Production
company
Media42
Distributed byAnchor Bay
Release date
  • 2009 (2009)
Running time
79 minutes

I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer is a 2008 Australian low-budget comedy-horror film, written and directed by Stacey Edmonds and Doug Turner. [1]

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Plot

Three amateur cricketers, Wallis, Blake and Peacock, are found murdered, items of cricket equipment being the murder weapons, and after Boyd is bashed to death in a toilet cubicle with a cricket bat, police begin to suspect a serial killer. The victims had once been members of an under-12 boys' team involved in a bullying scandal. Surviving members of the team are taken by police to a "safe house" at Joadja for their protection, but are soon disobeying their orders, and one by one are picked off in gruesome and humiliating ways by a lanky moustachioed killer in traditional cricketers' apparel (cream trousers, jumper and bucket hat), later identified as Phil Philips, the target of the bullying. Much of the mayhem is occasioned by a cricket ball turned to a deadly missile by insertion of six-inch nails, and by stumps with sharpened steel points. The action is interrupted for a gratuitous steamy shower scene, where Reynolds is played by Arianna Starr, a 'Miss Nude Australia'. The two police supervising the safe house are killed by Philips and Reynolds, who is revealed as not a police detective but Philips' sister and illicit lover.

Cast

(her body double in the shower scene played by Arianna Starr)

The film was shot in Sydney and at Joadja. Copyright is owned by Media42.

Original score by Dallas Johnson The film also uses recordings by:

Reception

The film was given one of the shorter reviews in a 2017 roundup of cricketing films by The Cricketer :

I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008) – A rather-amusing-sounding Australian slasher flick featuring a serial killer who uses bats, stumps, a spiked box and a wicketkeeping glove. [2]

Home media

I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer was released to DVD in Australia by Anchor Bay Entertainment (cat. STZ1229)

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References

  1. "I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer". Screen Australia . Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  2. Huw Turbervill (2017). "Cricket on screen: The game's best (and worst) moments in film and TV" . Retrieved 4 November 2017.