Biography

Openly despises the film version of her novel, I Know What You Did Last Summer, which the filmmakers turned into a hack-and-slash film. Lois said she especially hated it in the wake of her daughter's murder in real life.

(16th July 1989) Lois's 18 year old daughter Kaitlyn Arquette was found dead in her car. She had been shot in the head.

[in 1997] A movie loosely based upon my novel, "I Know What You Did Last Summer", opened in theaters around the country [I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)]. I was ecstatic until I settled into a theater seat with my box of popcorn and discovered that Hollywood had turned my teenage suspense story into a slasher film. The setting had been changed from the mountains of New Mexico to a fishing village on the East Coast, so an insane fisherman, who wasn't in my book, could decapitate my characters with an ice hook. The first thing I did after leaving the theater was phone our daughter Kerry and warn her not to let the grandchildren see it.