Trivia / I Know Who Killed Me

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $12 million. Box office, $9,669,758. This film's failure, the lot of Razzies that came with it, and star Lindsay Lohan's legal and personal troubles that followed firmly turned the teenage queen into a late-night punch-line. It also firmly locked director Chris Sivertson in the C-list of Hollywood filmmakers, killed the career of writer Jeffrey Hammond after just a single film, and producer Frank Mancuso Jr., who was also one of the two figures behind the ill-fated Bowdlerisation of Cool World 15 years prior, didn't get a credit on another film for the rest of the decade.
• Creator Backlash: Though she initially defended the film strongly against its detractors, Lindsay Lohan appears to have adopted this attitude toward the film in the years since. Her response to a fan on Twitter who mentioned watching the film two times was "two times too many". However she looked back at the making of this film with much fondness (despite the reported Troubled Production as mentioned below) and even called the director Chris Sivertson a "genius."
• Creator Killer:
  • Writer Jeffrey Hammond has no credits other than this film.
  • Director Chris Sivertson hasn't fared much better, with his only other credits — aside from All Cheerleaders Die, which he co-directed with the more renowned Lucky McKee — being on a couple of obscure horror films.
  • The film also crunched producer Frank Mancuso's career for several years.
• Direct to Video: In several territories, unsurprisingly.
• Playing Their Own Twin: Lindsay Lohan as separated-at-birth twins Aubrey and Dakota.
• Reality Subtext: This movie is about a mysterious troubled woman who resembled the missing young girl who came into her family's life. And it oddly reflects the public image of Lindsay Lohan from a sweet young actress to a dysfunctional person along with the real life problems with her parents.
• Real-Life Relative: The young Aubrey in the photograph is played by Lindsay Lohan's real life sister, Ali.
• Star-Derailing Role: This film (as well as her out-of-control real life behavior) sent Lindsay Lohan's promising-until-then career into a death spiral that it has yet to recover from.
• Troubled Production: Lohan was in rehab at the time and would only be released to film this movie. She was also harassed by the paparazzi on set, which may have led to some of the off-kilter performances.
• Vindicated by Cable: The movie made its profit through video sales with grossing $28 million in the United States.

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Misc. Trivia

• I Know Who Killed Me won a bunch of Razzies, one of which is "Worst Picture" of 2007. It technically became the most "awarded" movie ever at the time with eight, through a cheat, as Lindsay Lohan tied with Lindsay Lohan for Worst Actress, being nominated once for playing Aubrey and once for playing Dakota. (And then a few years later, Jack and Jill won ten, i.e. all the categories, to really set the record.)

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