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I Know Who Killed Me
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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This dark and twisted psychological thriller opens inside Strip T's Burlesque, a small-town roadhouse where a flexible young ecdysiast played by Lindsay Lohan bumps, grinds and gyrates for a bunch of grizzled old men. Flash forward to daytime, and bookish Aubrey Fleming (Lohan) stands in front of her high school creative writing class reading aloud her short story about a scrappy protagonist named Dakota Moss. That night the conflicted Aubrey is abducted by an unseen man who drugs her and tortures her with a terrifying array of dry ice, vises and medieval saws fashioned out of blown glass. Weeks later, the unconscious girl is discovered on the side of the road and taken to the hospital where her mangled hand and foot have to be amputated. When she finally awakes, she introduces herself as Dakota and claims not to recognize her parents (Julia Ormond and Neal McDonough) or her boyfriend Jerrod (Brian Geraghty) or even remember her captor. Is she an amnesiac, or is she delusional as the state psychologist (24's Gregory Itzin) concludes? Without any help from her family or the police, the brassy "Dakota" tries to find out what really happened to her. There are suspects aplenty, from the garden boy who leers at her through the window to Jerrod, for whom she wouldn't put out (before her ordeal). No matter where you think the story is leading, I Know Who Killed Me takes you down another dark road.

DVD FEATURES

I Know Who Killed Me is presented in both widescreen and full screen formats on this single disc. The most substantial bonus feature for certain Lohan fans will be the extended strip dance,

about six minutes long, which features Lohan in her see-through bra, micro-small boy shorts and thigh-high boots writhing on the Strip T's stage and performing a Lewinksi-esque stunt with a customer's cigarette. Further DVD extras include both an alternative beginning with more stylized credits and an alternative ending that adds a spooky denouement onto the theatrical version. A blooper reel -- standard on comedy DVDs but odd for a thriller -- serves as a bit of relief from the intense events of the movie.

by Rob. Walton

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