Teen horror motion pictures had been all the craze within the ’90s, and Kevin Williamson‘s 1997 adaptation of Lois Duncan’s I Know What You Did Final Summer season was an immediate favourite for the subgenre. (On the danger of sinking with a nasty pun right here, let’s simply say audiences had been hooked by the star-studded slasher.)
Now, followers of the story may have another excuse to hit the theaters this summer time as Sony Footage is releasing a brand new model of I Know What You Did Final Summer season on July 18.
So what’s there to find out about this new follow-up, and the way does it relate to the unique movie? Right here’s a take a look at all the particulars. (Beware that there are spoilers from the earlier movies forward!)
It’s the fifth installment within the franchise however canonically counts because the third.
I Know What You Did Final Summer season featured a number of the greatest names of younger Hollywood on the time of its launch and was a part of a resurgence of minor slashers alongside Scream, Halloween H20, City Legend, and others. The movie follows a quartet of youngsters — Jennifer Love Hewitt‘s Julie James, Freddie Prinze Jr.‘s Ray Bronson, Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s Helen Shivers, and Ryan Phillippe‘s Barry Cox — in Southport, North Carolina, who run over a person after an evening out and resolve to ditch the person’s physique on the facet of the highway. A yr later, they begin receiving notes with the title phrasing on them and are picked off one after the other by a hook-wielding assassin. On the finish of the pic, they uncover the person they hit didn’t die (although he’s a assassin) and has been exacting revenge on them. They defeat Ben Willis a.okay.a. The Fisherman on the finish — although not for good, apparently — and simply Julie and Ray survive.
With the field workplace success of the primary movie, a sequel in a short time adopted. Launched in 1998, I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season sees the killer come again with a twist. Julie is tricked into happening a tropical getaway together with her faculty roommate, Brandy Norwood‘s Karla, and a few buddies. Ray solely decides to affix after they’ve already gone, and shortly after, they’re trapped on an island in the midst of a storm because the our bodies begin stacking up. It seems, the unique killer just isn’t solely again in motion, however his son has additionally posed as a buddy of Julie’s roommate to assist lure them to their doom. After many deaths, Julie and Ray as soon as once more survive, together with Karla, and the Fisherman seems to be defeated (together with his son lifeless, too)… till he exhibits up beneath Julie’s mattress in a closing cliffhanger.
A 3rd movie — the direct-to-video 2006 pic I’ll At all times Know What You Did Final Summer season — introduced again the hook-fisted killer (although with a distinct actor within the function) once more, however the different authentic characters weren’t concerned, and the setting moved from the coast to Colorado. Then in 2021, Amazon Prime Video launched a sequence of the identical identify on streaming that was a very new iteration of the variation. It lasted only one season.
The brand new movie, additionally titled I Know What You Did Final Summer season, serves as a direct sequel to the second, making it the third movie within the canonical franchise and the fifth installment of the franchise total.
The logline for the brand new movie reads, “When 5 buddies inadvertently trigger a lethal automobile accident, they cowl up their involvement and make a pact to maintain it a secret fairly than face the implications. A yr later, their previous comes again to hang-out them and so they’re compelled to confront a horrifying reality: somebody is aware of what they did final summer time… And is hell-bent on revenge. As one after the other the buddies are stalked by a killer, they uncover this has occurred earlier than, and so they flip to 2 survivors of the legendary Southport Bloodbath of 1997 for assist.”
The brand new film will deliver again some acquainted faces.
Each Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprise their authentic roles for the brand new movie. Within the trailer, which dropped on June 17, we see that each Julie and Ray are again — though doubtlessly not collectively anymore — and so they’re recruited by a brand new group of victims (slash hit-and-runners) to assist cease their hooked attacker from killing off extra of them.
Earlier than her casting was official, Hewitt beforehand informed Parade that she solely needed to be part of the brand new movie if the function was meaty sufficient: “If I’m going to return again 27 years later, I don’t wish to simply be in it for 5 seconds… I need to have the ability to carve out time to actually be in it for folks and to have it matter.”
Judging by her prevalence within the teaser — which even options her uttering the now-iconic line, “What are you ready for?!” — she’ll get loads of display time within the new flick.
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The brand new solid is stuffed with fan favorites, too.
Like Scream, Last Vacation spot, and different long-running franchises which have efficiently rebooted in recent times, the story continues to be going to be anchored by a brand new crew.
The solid contains Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller) as Danica Richards, Chase Sui Wonders (Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies, The Studio) as Ava Brucks, Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid, Physician Who) as Milo Griffin, Tyriq Withers (Inform Me Lies, Him) as Teddy Spencer, Sarah Pidgeon (The Wilds) as Stevie Ward, and Gabbriette Bechtel as Tyler, together with Billy Campbell and Austin Nichols (One Tree Hill).
I Know What You Did Final Summer season, July 18, Theaters