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| “ | Benjamin Willis: That's a shame. Being it's fourth of July and all. Kids like you should be out having fun. Drinking. Partying. Running people over. Getting away with murder. Things like that. Julie James: You. Ben Willis. Benjamin Willis: Good. I see you've been doing your homework, too. |
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| ~ Benjamin Willis' famous quote, thus revealing his true nature as the killer fisherman to Julie James.
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| “ | Julie: Please... it was an accident! Benjamin Willis: I know all about accidents, and let me give you some advice: When you leave a man for dead, make sure that he's really dead! |
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| ~ Ben's most iconic quote and breakdown before his defeat. |
Benjamin "Ben" Willis, also simply known as "The Fisherman", is the main antagonist of the teen slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer films. He is based on the character Bud from Lois Duncan's original novel.
He was portrayed by Muse Watson in the first two films, and by Don Shanks (who also played Michael Myers and Dr. Terrence Wynn in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers) as a zombie in the third film.
Appearance[]
From his first appearance in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ben appeared as a middle-aged man with short dark brownish hair that appears to be graying in some areas, dark eyes, and what appears to be stubble on his face.
In I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, his hair appeared to have grown much longer with much darker color to them, with the loss of his arm in the previous film, he replaced it with a hook hand.
In I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, he appears as a zombified version of himself, almost akin to a discomposed corpse with his left eye losing all its color, instead being almost entirely white.
As the Fisherman, Ben was dressed in a full black rain slicker that appears to cover his face at some angles, more so in the dark, in additionally, being armed with a hook.
Personality[]
Ben has shown to be a rather vindictive and hateful man, more so towards those he believed had wronged him. In the first instance of this, he brutally murdered his wife after finding out that she had an affair, before escaping with his two children.
However, his sole redeeming quality of himself appears to be the love he had toward his two children, who he had raised alone, after that incident. Once again, out of revenge, he murdered David Egan who was dating his daughter, Susie, who previously died in a car accident. Ben was later hit, by Julie and her friends, after leaving from the scene, on the same night.
It was during the events of I Know What You Did Last Summer, where he truly showed his vindictive and hateful side, as he went on a murder spree the year after the incident, killing several people, whom he had no connection to, just to torment his true targets, one of them being an unsuspecting, working Max, Officer David Caporizo, who had Helen in his car, and Elsa, Helen's sister who she went to for help.
Ben has shown to be a hypocrite, and already psychotic throughout these events, as he acted out of revenge for being struck by a car, even condemning Julie and her friends, but showed no remorse about all the innocent lives that he took leading to that point. He continued on with this in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, where he killed Dave, Ray's friend, who was with Ray, at the time, and several employees who worked at the resort Julie and the others were at: only showing remorse after accidently killing his son, William.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Ben Willis was a fisherman, and a widower. He had two known children, William and Susie. Susie was the fiancée of David Egan. It was also mentioned in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer by Estes, that Ben killed and mutilated his wife in the hotel's honeymoon suite. One night, David and Susie were driving and got into a fatal accident. David survived unharmed, but Susie was killed. Blaming the death solely on David, Ben killed him the next year and threw his body into the ocean.
That same night, Ben was run over by teenagers; Helen, Barry, Julie, and Ray, while celebrating Helen winning a beauty pageant, and High School graduation. While driving home they had accidentally ran over Ben. The panicking teens dump Ben into the ocean, believing him to be dead. The next day, David's body washes up on shore, and his death was declared a suicide. Ben, however, had survived, leaving from the area, to plot revenge on Julie, and her friends.
I Know What You Did Last Summer[]
A year after the incident, Ben has apparently caught up to them, wearing a black raincoat and wielding a meat hook. Julie has returned home from college and hasn't made contact with her friends since the accident. She finds a note saying, "I Know What You Did Last Summer".
The friends reunite, and go confront their friend Max, who was the only one who saw them that night. Max is killed by Ben shortly afterwards. Ben makes an attempt on Barry's life by running him down with his own car, but Barry ends up in the hospital. Julie and her friends learn of David and his alleged suicide from David's sister, Missy. Missy tells them that a friend of David's named "Billy Blue" had visited her.
After Barry is released, Ben hides in Helen's closet, making her his next target. As she sleeps, he cuts her hair, and puts on her crown, writing "Soon" on her mirror in lipstick. Julie finds Max's dead body shortly afterwards, in her car's crab filled trunk. When she returns to show her friends, the trunk is empty and clean, except for a few wrenches. At the beauty pageant, Helen witnesses Barry getting murdered, but neither the body nor the killer is found. A police officer begins to take Helen home but is lured away by Ben and killed. Helen panics and runs to a local store to Elsa, the store owner and Helen's sister, but Ben manages to break down the door and kill Elsa. Helen manages to escape but is shoved into a pile of tires and slashed to death. Helen's screams are deafened by an ongoing parade.
Julie learns the truth of Ben Willis and heads to the docks to warn Ray, who doesn't believe her. She finds Ray on a boat called "Billy Blue" and briefly mistakes him for the killer, Ray tries to reason with her before the real killer reveals himself as Ben Willis. Ben knocks Ray out. Ben chases Julie around the boat which begins to sail, while Ray steals another boat to rescue her.
In a room full of ice, Julie discovers Helen and Barry's bodies. Ray makes it aboard the Billy Blue, but is nearly killed by Ben, but is caught in the net. Ray manages to rescue Julie, and Ben's hand is caught in a rope and hoisted up by Ray. Ben's hand is cut off by the pulley, and he is catapulted into the ocean. When Ray and Julie make it back to shore, they are met by the police, who tell them that they found only Ben's hand.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer[]
Julie and Ray have started a relationship, but Julie is haunted by nightmares of Ben. Julie also made friends with her roommate Karla, Karla's boyfriend Tyrell, and Will Benson. They try having fun at a disco club, but Julie sees an apparition of Ben in his fisherman outfit and leaves. It is never confirmed if that was really Ben, or just a traumatic illusion, on Julie's part. The next day, Karla wins a trip to the Bahamas, much to her and Julie's excitement. Julie is invited to go with her, while Karla also invites Ray, and Tyrell to join them. Ray tells Julie he can't make it but tells her to have fun.
Ray's friend Dave convinces him to go anyway and surprise her. While out, Ray and Dave see a dead body on the road, when Ray step out, Dave is attacked by Ben, who is still donning his fishermen disguise. Ben attempts to run Ray down, but Ray jumps down a steep hill, escapes, and later purchases a gun, before heading to the Bahamas to make sure Julie and the others are okay.
At the Island Resort, another fisherman murders the maid, dockhand, and pool boy. Julie and her friends find out most of the tourists are leaving because it's storm season. Julie finds the corpse of the dockhand, but when everyone else checks it out, the body is gone, and the blood is cleaned up. The hotel's manager tells them to stay put because of the weather.
Later, the killer makes an attempt on Julie and Karla's lives, before they are rescued by Will and Tyrell. They later find the manager, with a machete impaled through his head, the radio destroyed, and all boats cut loose from the island. They suspect the baggage handler, Estes, who reveals that Ben Willis once lived on the island. They head back to the hotel where Tyrell is killed, Karla is chased down by the fisherman, and presumably also killed.
Ray finally makes it to the island and meets up with Julie. They notice blood on Will's shirt, and he reveals that he is Ben's son (making his fake last name a bit of a pun). Will drags Julie to a graveyard, where Ben once again shows up. Ray shows up and aims his gun at Ben and Will, but the gun misfires. Will and Ray fight each other and Ben attempts to make an attempt of Ray's life, but Ray dodges the hook, causing Ben to accidentally kill his son. This further enraged Ben, but then he is killed by being shot several times in the chest by an enraged Julie until he falls into an open grave and dies. Somehow, he comes back to life, or perhaps just makes a cameo, in Julie's nightmare at the end.
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer[]
Returning a second time, this time being brought back from the dead, as a zombie, he starts another killing spree targeting a group of friends responsible for their friend P.J.'s death using the legend of Ben "The Fisherman" Willis (with Roger disguising himself as him in their prank) as a scapegoat. He comes back to exact revenge for those who died in circumstances similar to his own. At the end of the movie, right after the screen turns black, hook noises are heard, and Amber is heard screaming.
Victims[]
- 1: Sarah Willis (his own wife)
- 2: David Franklin Egan
- 3: Max Neurick
- 4: Barry Cox
- 5: Officer David Caporizo
- 6: Elsa Shivers
- 7: Helen Shivers
- 8: Dave
- 9: Darick
- 10: Olga
- 11: Titus Telesco
- 12: Mr. Brooks
- 13: Tyrell
- 14. Estes (off-screen)
- 15: Nancy
- 16: William Willis (Accident; his own son)
- 17: Ray Bronson (possibly?)
- 18: Julie James (possibly?)
- 19: Roger
- 20: Zoe
- 21: Sheriff Paul Jeremiah Davis Sr.
- 22: Colby Patterson
- 23: Deputy John Hafner
- 24: Amber Williams
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Trivia[]
- In an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob and Patrick watched the Fisherman Movie, which was inspired from his name, and Squidward used a disguise of him to scare them.
- It is unknown how Ben Willis was brought back to life, after being shot to death by Julie in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. More so, the reason why he targeted teenagers from Colorado, despite the first and second films taking place in Southport, North Carolina, but hunted down his intended target to the Bahamas. As well as the fact neither of the teenagers had anything to do with him or his family, aside from hearing about it.
- It could be that Ben was revived as a spirit of vengeance, who targets those who killed someone and kept it a secret, as well as those who knew about it, but never told anyone. It would explain the reason that he was put back together in the third film, after being shredded. However, this doesn't make sense as Ben killed several innocent people who had no knowledge about what happened before and after returning back from the dead.
