SPOILER WARNING: The next article offers away some essential particulars from I Know What You Did Final Summer time. You probably have not but seen the brand new 2025 film, strive to not make a mistake that may hang-out you and proceed with warning as you learn on.
After listening to some optimistic rumblings about 2025’s I Know What You Did Final Summer time, together with from Eric Eisenberg’s overview of the slasher legacyquel, I made a decision to offer it a strive. Sadly, all it did was reinforce what I dislike about horror requels with a recycled plotline, bland characters, subpar performing, ear-aching dialogue, nonsensical twists, and never even one memorable kill, for my part.
Nevertheless, I’ll admit that the brand new horror film, which as soon as once more follows troubled youths focused for a deadly mistake they made a yr earlier, shouldn’t be an entire wash for me. Actually, I’ll give the brand new I Know What You Did Final Summer time some credit score for incorporating one facet that was a real shock and even had me and my crowd applauding.
Are you curious to be taught what I’m referring to? Nicely, what are you ready for, huh? Learn on to search out out…
I Love That The Film Acknowledges I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time
Days earlier than seeing the brand new movie, I made a decision to look at, for the primary time, the second installment, 1998’s I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time, which I ended up having fun with greater than the unique, principally for ironic causes, that’s. Due to its status as an inferior slasher sequel (and, actually, for completely legitimate causes), I anticipated the bloody Bahamian B-movie to be ignored on this new movie, very like how David Gordon Inexperienced’s Halloween motion pictures erase every little thing that got here after the 1978 horror film basic.
A lot to my shock, the requel appears to have quite a lot of love for the second chapter. Considered one of its finest jokes sees Tyriq Winters’ character, Teddy, recommending that he and his mates “fuck off to the Bahamas” to flee the killer’s wrath, which Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.) advises in opposition to for causes he opts to not disclose. My favourite second, nevertheless, is the mid-credits scene when Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) pays a go to to her previous school roommate, Karla Wilson (Brandy Norwood, reprising her I Nonetheless Know… position). Talking of…
This Film Might Have Used Extra Brandy
It seems that the makers of the brand new I Know What You Did Final Summer time had been listening when Brandy Norwood informed them to “hit her up” whereas chatting with THR in 2024. Nevertheless, I can’t assist however think about she was asking for greater than only a mid-credits cameo and, fairly frankly, I believe she deserved greater than that.
In just some minutes of screentime, the R&B singer, who is definitely my favourite factor about I Nonetheless Know…, offers a extra compelling and pleasurable efficiency than any of the returning franchise solid members. For that purpose, I believe the film may have been much more enjoyable if Karla performed a bigger position within the movie, versus a quick, sequel-baiting look. Really, on that word…
I Actually Do not Need A Sequel, Even With Brandy
As I established on the high, that is considered one of my least favourite horror film franchises. I discovered the primary film bland, the second extra enjoyably nonsensical (particularly with its unbelievably silly plot twist), I’ve been suggested to not trouble with the straight-to-video I’ll At all times Know What You Did Final Summer time, and this new movie did nothing to treatment my points with the earlier installments
If something, it solely proved to me that this franchise has little or no fumes to run on by way of creativity, and I actually assume the plug needs to be pulled. I notice that this could value the possibility of seeing any extra of Norwood as Karla, however a much bigger a part of me would somewhat see her act in absolutely anything else. Maybe it’s time I try her latest A24 film, The Entrance Room.
You already know, I’m not going to lie, although, if Brandy Norwood does return as Karla for one more freaking I Know What You Did Final Summer time, I’ll in all probability watch it. Then once more, the brand new movie doesn’t appear to have hooked in that many moviegoers based mostly on its opening weekend field workplace returns. That being stated, I’m glad to see some followers having fun with this new slasher, particularly if it should mark the final of The Fisherman’s homicide streak.