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The Correct Order To Watch I Know What You Did Last Summer Movies

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It's doubtful that when Lois Duncan published the slow-burn mystery "I Know What You Did Last Summer" for young adult readers, she predicted it would become the basis for a horror movie franchise over 20 years later. That, however, is precisely what happened — much to the chagrin of junior high English teachers everywhere. Written by the now legendary teen horror screenwriter Kevin Williamson, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was written years before it finally hit production, but after the massive success of "Scream" in 1996, producer Erik Feig knew the best course of action was getting another Williamson slasher into theaters.

Using Duncan's novel as a loose basis, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is about four friends named Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Ray (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), and Barry (Ryan Phillippe) who after partying on the Fourth of July after high school graduation, hit a person in a drunk driving accident. Instead of reporting the accident, they dump the body in the ocean and promise to take the secret to their graves. They head off to college a few months later but when summer rolls around once again, they all start to receive threats from a fisherman claiming, you guessed it, "I know what you did last summer." Now, this quartet must figure out who is killing them off, what they know, and who they've told.

The movie was a massive financial success inspiring two sequels, a TV series, and a recently announced legacyquel from "Do Revenge" director and "Thor: Love and Thunder" co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Slasher timelines are notoriously convoluted, but does this hold true for the fisherman's reign of terror? Here's the correct order to watch the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" movies.

The release order

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr.

Fortunately, the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" movies don't have any prequels, unconnected sequels, or random tie-in films, and the release order is the same as the chronological order in terms of story. Unfortunately, the films also decline in quality as the franchise goes on, so watching the films in the order of release also means starting on a high note and ending on a ... well, a direct-to-video release from a time period when that was definitely the mark of the beast. But, unless you want to have plot elements spoiled for you as they appear in the latter films, your best bet is to watch the franchise in order:

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997)
"I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" (1998)
"I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer" (2006)

For what it's worth, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is nowhere near as bad as the 7% on Rotten Tomatoes would indicate. "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer" has a whopping 0% on the site and ... well, we were taught that if someone doesn't have anything nice to say they should keep their mouth shut so that's all we'll say on that.

The correct order

While there's no objective "correct" way to watch the franchise, we certainly have a recommendation for the ultimate viewing experience. And yes, it includes completely foregoing "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer" because life is too short to watch a slasher movie trying to bring the kills of a "Final Destination" flick but without the self-awareness required to pull it off (even if the snowblower kill is hilarious ). Instead, watch the first two films, and then strap in to binge nearly eight hours of the 2021 "I Know What You Did Last Summer" series on Prime Video. Meaning, the correct viewing order is as follows:

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" series on Prime Video (2021)

Another victim of the streaming-series-canceled-after-one-season curse, the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" series attempted to deliver a story a bit closer in tone to Lois Duncan's novel with elements of a slasher film littered throughout. This series is a murder mystery above all else, with a fantastic cast of young actors including Madison Iseman, Brianne Tju, Bill Heck, and Ezekiel Goodman. And given the legacyquel heading our way, it's likely that the film will be closer in line with the series than the original films, making this a must-watch.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer Reviews

To many people nowadays, the key version of I Know What You Did Last Summer is the film, but the novel, in many respects, better communicates this unique morality tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2024

The core cast are undeniable talents and the genuinely surprising story helps keep you engaged in relatively redundant slasher tropes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2023

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a welcome hit of nostalgia that still works better than it should, the amazing cast particularly elevating the material enough to still make it a worthwhile rewatch, especially in the weeks of October.

Full Review | May 3, 2023

This is a fun, energetic and scary movie by Jim Gillespie.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 10, 2023

This really does feel like it’s missing something, perhaps the result of being rushed out after the renewed interest in horror post-Scream.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 21, 2022

While not as good as his first film, Williamson still manages to avoid the “sophomore slump” with this second offering and a solid script/story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 27, 2022

On the minus side, this bright, witty writer seems to have retreated into the very genre he spoofed in Scream.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 1, 2022

Even though the murders are gruesome, the film is not scary, nor is it clever. We've seen this many times before, but with different titles and different stars.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 26, 2022

Takes the foundation of Lois Duncan's source material and updates it in all the right ways. Williamson's script is playful and smart , Gillespie's direction is taunt and SMG remains a queer icon with the best chase scene in modern slasher history

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 20, 2021

I Know What You Did Last Summer still retains its entertaining appeal, while still inspiring the filmmakers that have followed in its wake.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2021

An '80s slasher in a '90s world that prioritizes its characters over gore and it's all the better for it. It's a perfect dessert after Scream's main course.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

A cheesy and sometimes melodramatic slasher film that is certainly not one of the best, but... It's directed better than a lot of the slasher films in recent years.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 16, 2020

The numerous false alarms, jump scares, frustratingly disbelieving supporting personas, and misdirections are admittedly amusing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 14, 2020

For all its glaring flaws, I Know What You Did Last Summer has its fun with a loosely adapted story from the novel of the same name by Lois Duncan.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 7, 2019

Wastes more opportunities than it does teenagers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2019

The performances by the young actors are engaging.

A dreadful mad slasher film that works neither as a thriller nor as a comic commentary on the genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 28, 2019

All the scary, screaming, sniggering fun continues here, aided by swell performances from Hewitt and Gellar in particular... an appearance from the always groovy Anne Heche, and the crisp, crackerjack direction of Jim Gillespie.

Full Review | Mar 28, 2019

A poorly conceived 1997 thriller with plenty of empty references.

A fresh look at the '80s-style slasher film, substituting characterization and suspense for the graphic violence and nudity that marked the earlier genre entries.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2019

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Summary After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave, and he's looking for more than an apology. (Sony)

Directed By : Jim Gillespie

Written By : Kevin Williamson, Lois Duncan

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I Know What You Did Last Summer Review

12 Dec 1997

101 minutes

I Know What You Did Last Summer

As the opening aerial shot sweeps into a gloomy coastline towards a solitary figure brooding above a long, rocky drop, it soon becomes clear that last summer didn't involve sun, sea and a number nine double-decker bus.

Having continued the end-of-school celebrations with some shenanigans on the beach, four chums are driving home along the darkened clifftop road when the BMW crumple zone is severely tested by an unidentified object. Further inspection produces a bloodied welly. And then the prostrate figure from whence it came. As tempers, adrenaline and fear run high, the decision is taken to ditch the body.

A year on and wracked with guilt, Julie (Hewitt) wants nothing to do with her former mates until a spooky note bearing only the titular words turns up. Then things start turning sinister. Barry (Phillipe) is mowed down by his own car, Helen (Geller) has her hair chopped on the eve of her beauty queen parade, and something altogether more unpleasant winds up in Julie's boot. With anniversaries, coastal setting, untimely deaths, and the town forever shrouded in foreboding meteorology, echoes of John Carpenter's The Fog ring out, and Scream scriptwriter Kevin Williamson's follow-up looks like another winner. The biggest disappointment then, is when it abandons its own neatly constructed premise far too early, and much of the fearful uncertainty drains away. There are, however, some cracking shocks, first time director Gillespie drawing a decent jump factor from his young cast (all good, especially Hewitt from TV's Party Of Five) and with Scream 2 well on the way, this appetiser proves that nouveau horror is alive and kicking hard.

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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

“I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” assembles the building blocks of idiot-proof slasher movies: Stings, Snicker-Snacks, false alarms and point-of-view baits-and-switches. We’ll get back to those. The movie’s R rating mentions “intense terror violence and gore,” but only its publicity team could consider it intense or terrifying. Gore it has.

The movie stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie, survivor of the original “ I Know What You Did Last Summer ,” as a college student haunted by nightmares of what she did, in fact, the summer before last (last summer was actually the summer when the slasher knew what she did the previous summer, if you follow me). The R&B star Brandy plays her roommate Karla.

Together with their dates Will (Matthew Settle) and Tyrell ( Mekhi Phifer ), they go to the Bahamas after winning a radio contest by incorrectly naming Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil. It wouldn’t have helped to know that the correct answer is Brasilia, since they could have answered Schaumburg and still won: The contest is a hoax by the Fisherman, a spectral presence who dresses like the Gorton’s Fisherman and impales his victims with fishhooks. He wants to get them to the Bahamas for the obvious reason that the plot requires a seaside setting (the Fisherman would look oddly dressed anywhere else, and indeed one wonders how many victims he will have to claim before an all points bulletin is put out for a guy in a slicker with a fishhook).

Ominous signs have been portending even before they get to the Bahamas. After all those nightmares, Julie is so jumpy that the least little thing disturbs her. The silly girl gets scared when her roommate creaks open the door, enters in the dark, makes assorted stealthy scary sounds, runs across a hallway in the background and hides in the closet while allowing the clothing to rustle alarmingly. Julie grabs a knife from the kitchen, and that’s when we get the first Snicker-Snack, which is the Movie Glossary term for the sound a blade makes in a movie whenever it is seen. (Blades can make this sound, which resembles a knife being drawn quickly across a steel surface, when they are touching absolutely nothing.) Anyway, Julie darn near stabs Karla to death, when, hey, all Karla wanted to do was borrow a dress. This is the first of many False Alarms, which are setups that look like danger, but turn out to have an innocent explanation. They are usually followed by moments of real violence, in which we get a Sting, which is the technical term for the loud, discordant and frightening chord that plays when the victim is confronted by sudden violence.

Now you’d think that Karla the roommate would figure out that since Julia has been living for two years with terrifying nightmares, and since most of her friends and neighbors have been filleted by the Fisherman, it would be unwise to sneak into her room in the dark, make suspicious noises and hide in the closet. Roommates do not think like this in slasher movies.

The other standby is the POV bait-and-switch. This involves the manipulation of the camera to create a point of view that shows (a) what the character sees but we can’t, (b) what we see but the character can’t, or (c) what neither of us can see, since the camera is stalking the unwitting victim. It is an unwritten rule of slasher movies that killers are invisible until they actually leap into frame; if we can’t see them, neither can the hero, even though the killer occupies space that should be visible from the hero’s POV.

Now that we’ve analyzed the tawdry tricks the movie uses to pound the audience like a Playskool workbench, is there anything else to be said about “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer”? Not really. It contains no characters of any interest, no dialogue worth hearing, no originality of conception, no ambition other than to pocket the dollars of anyone unlucky enough to go to a movie named “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.” When a movie begins, I imagine an empty room in my mind that is about to be filled. This movie left the room furnished only with dust and a few dead flies.

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Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town..

Review by: Matt Brighton

Plot: What’s it about?

If you would, let’s take a trip back in time to 1997. The previous year had brought us Kevin Williamson’s Scream (directed by horror legend Wes Craven) and it singlehandedly reignited the “teen horror” genre that plagued the 80’s. In all truth, it wasn’t a bad thing. Scream did well at the box office and inspired a series of sequels, including a 2021 remake as well as a television series. Oddly, Williamson had written I Know What You Did Last Summer before Scream , but the success of the latter film generated newfound interest in his earlier work. And, wouldn’t you know it, we’ve got ourselves a franchise. The two films are effectively cut from the same cloth, but did go in different directions. Jennifer Love Hewitt was coasting off her success from television show Party of Five , Gellar from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then we had the guys. There’s nothing wrong with a maniac wearing a rain coat with a hook for a hand going around killing people – is there? Just remember, when you throw a body in the water, make sure he/she is dead. Else, well, this might happen.

You’ve graduated from high school, the world is in the palm of your hand and your whole life is in front of you. Isn’t it great to be young? Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Ray (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), Barry (Ryan Phillippe) and Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) are having the time of their respective lives. After partying a little too hard on the 4th of July, the group accidentally hit a man in the road. Not knowing what to do and afraid it’ll negatively impact their futures, they dump the body in the water, thinking that by the time he’s found – they’ll be in the clear. They then make a bond to keep their secret. A year later, the couples are no more. Julie has become introverted and obsessive about the ordeal and her anxiety is heightened when she receives a letter saying, you guessed it, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (it’s in all caps in the movie, but you get the idea). A series of murders doesn’t exactly work wonders for the quartet who must now work together to solve this mystery, but also keep their names free and clear of any wrong-doing. What could possibly go wrong?

I’m sure most will agree with me when I say that when it comes down to Scream vs. I Know What You Did Last Summer – Scream will most likely win every time. It’s not that this one is “bad” by any means, I really enjoy it every time I watch. But Scream hit the nail on the head. Oddly, I’d caught a reference while watching this to Dawson’s Creek (a television show also developed by Williamson). There’s a reference to going to “Dawson’s Beach” early on in the film. I thought that was cute. Looking back at this one, it really had it all. A young, up-and-coming cast, a great script and a decently good plot that managed to keep my interest. It also inspired a sequel the next year (the aptly-titled I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ) as well as a television series. That’s not bad for a movie that most likely would have never happened if not for the success of Scream . Not bad at all.

Video: How does it look?

If you’re like me, and not many are, then one of your life dreams has been to see Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ample cleavage displayed in 4K glory. Friends, your wait is over. Reportedly they wanted Hewitt to do a nude scene in a shower and she refused, so they just put her in as little clothing as they could the entire movie. Hey, I’m not complaining. Ok, enough talk about skin. I will say that this movie has always looked pretty good to me. But when it comes to new 4K editions, Sony has usually done it right. The 2.39:1 HEVC 4K image is near flawless. Detail has been improved, black levels (thanks to HDR) are spot on and the film has a more cinematic look to it. I will note that I’d not recalled how muted the color palette in this film was. There aren’t a lot of bright colors. Then again when you’re dealing with a man who kills people with a hook, it won’t be rainbows and butterflies every scene, eh? To put it bluntly, this movie doesn’t look 25 years old and, well, that’s the point. Fans will certainly want to sink their hooks into this one.

Audio: How does it sound?

Not to be outdone, we get a new audio mix in the form of a Dolby Atmos track. Granted, there aren’t a lot of opportunities for this to flex its muscle, but I will say that Ryan Phillippe’s character of Barry sure does a lot of yelling. He has issues, man. Issues. The soundtrack sounds good, though I was pretty taken by some of the surround effects. The squealing of tires, the sound that the hook makes when “used” and so forth. Like the video, this one gets another notch on the score, but it’s not a night and day difference. But it’s an improvement and we’ll take it.

Supplements: What are the extras?

Way back when this first came out on DVD, early pressings of this movie were a collector’s item as the trailer included had the phrase “From the creator of Scream…” Evidently Disney/Miramax didn’t like that and sued Columbia/TriStar (now Sony). Those discs were fetching a few hundred dollars on eBay. Why am I mentioning this?

At any rate, we’ve even got a few new features in the form of some deleted scenes and an alternate ending.

Disc One (4K)

6 Deleted Scenes + Alternate Ending – Half a dozen deleted scenes along with an alternate ending that’s really not that alternate. Hey, anything new to a film of this age is always welcome.
My Own Summer : An Interview with Director Jim Gillespie – Pretty self-explanatory, the director regales us with tales from the film, the shoot and Gillespie’s point of view.
He Knows What You Did: An Interview with Muse Watson – Muse Watson, the actor who played Benjamin Willis (i.e. the dude who went around killing everyone) gives us some pretty candid tidbits about the film and his role in particular.

Disc Two (Blu-ray)

Audio Commentary – This is the same track that’s been around for ages with Gillespie and editor Steve Mirkovich providing a pretty decent, fact-filled track. Gillespie’s thick Scottish accent can be a bit difficult to understand at times, but if you’ve never listened to this one – it’s worth your time.
Director’s Short Film: “Joyride” with Optional Commentary – Again, pretty self-explanatory. His film 1996 Joyride did show some promise.
Now I Know What You Did Last Summer – Probably the most robust segment is this nearly 30 minute featurette that has cast and crew laud praise on one another. We also get some history of the project, it was based on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan. And so forth.
Music Video – “Hush” Performed by Kula Shaker
Theatrical Trailer

The Bottom Line

I mean…what’s not to like? This movie will probably always pale in comparison to Scream , but so what? It’s got a great cast, the new 4K image looks flat out amazing, we get new supplements as well as a new Dolby Atmos mix. When a lot of studios take the easy route and just design some new cover art or throw in a new transfer, this one takes it to the next level. Any fan of this movie deserves to have this version in their collection.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer STARRING Jennifer Love Hewitt Sarah Michelle Gellar RATED R 100 MINUTES

He wears a dirty green fisherman’s cap and rain slicker. He stands ramrod straight, in the square-shouldered psycho tradition of Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and — where they descended from, after all — Norman Bates. His weapon of choice? A gleaming silver fishhook. It’s a nasty tool of terror, to be sure, but also an obvious one, good for ripping people’s throats open or toting a pretty blond around like a giant dead carp. Say this for I Know What You Did Last Summer ( Columbia ): If nothing else, it knows how to assault you as crudely — and efficiently — as its vengeful slasher.

By the end of the ’80s, teen-horror films, with their casts that looked as if they’d been recruited at a shopping- mall talent show, had descended to a level of ragtag ineptitude depressing to behold. (Believe me: I cut my critic’s teeth reviewing every last one of them.) I Know What You Did Last Summer is not of that lowly ilk; it attains a level of solidly mediocre trash competence. In a picturesque fishing village in North Carolina, four recent high school graduates take a rowdy Independence Night joyride back from the beach when they accidentally hit someone on the road. Panicked, they dump the body into the ocean, only to realize, at the last minute, that he’s still alive.

The following summer, they return to their hometown, still haunted by what they’ve done. Of course, fear and guilt aren’t the only things stalking them. So is a deranged killer, who keeps leaving ominous notes (”I know what you did last summer!”). Before long, he begins to subject them to his lethal hook. Is the killer the man they hit, now ”returned” from the dead? Or is it the woman they think is his wrong-side-of-the-tracks sister (played by a spooky Anne Heche)? Or is it one of the kids themselves?

I Know What You Did Last Summer was written by Kevin Williamson, who penned the allusively witty, genre-bending script for Scream . A lot of the young viewers who flocked to that film may well turn out for this one, eager for another dose of jump-out-of-your-seat thrills. That said, if you loved Scream not just because it revived the clichés of teen slasher movies but because it stood those clichés on their head, turning schlock trivia into suspense (and vice versa), becoming a pop-culture hall of mirrors … well, if you’re expecting another movie like that , look elsewhere. I Know What You Did Last Summer is nothing but a slick version of the kind of gruesomely formulaic who-will-be-the-next-to-die hack-’em-up that Scream took off from and, ultimately, transcended. The killer himself is generically scary (though his pranks with corpses are cleverly staged), and the story, by the end, has more holes than the bodies do. There’s no griping about the cast, though: Those slasher potboilers of the late ’80s would have been lucky to feature an actress as fetching and savvy as Party of Five ‘s Jennifer Love Hewitt. She knows how to scream with soul. B-

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An accidental death plays a central role in this drama; expect to see a dead body shown at length (it looks like the person is sleeping) as well as blood, a decapitated animal head dripping blood, and other gruesome sights. Characters are suddenly dispatched by a shadowy murderer in the style of a 1980s-era slasher movie.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

A man's penis is visible in a non-sexual scene in which we see him peeing into a pool at a party. In another scene, a man's bare buttocks bang rhythmically against a window, presumably during sex. A young woman is told she "f--ks" to get privileges and we learn that she had sex with a high school teacher in order to get a grade, which the drama seems to blame on her solely. Expect kissing and dating as well as makeout sessions that wind up with a couple tumbling into bed before the camera cuts away. A character gives another graphic instruction on how to perform oral sex on a man. Sexual betrayal is an element of the plot.

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Cursing includes "f--k," "s--t," as well as vulgar words for female genitals that are used to imply characters being rude, or cowardly: "c--t," "p---y."

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

A main character smokes cigarettes and offers one to another character, who takes it, saying "as long as they’ll kill me." Teens at a party drink something from plastic cups, and in one scene partygoers chant at a main character to make him drink. A main character sells drugs, which this show seems to regard as sensible given her status as a lower-middle-class teen in an upper-middle-class milieu; we see her delivering drugs to other teens at a party, including ketamine in a nasal spray, which the client then uses before dancing wildly and having sex with another partygoer. We see teens smoking from pipes, snorting lines of white powder, and gleefully drinking and using drugs in a car in which the driver says she's "very f--ked up" (they wind up in a terrible car crash).

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Many shots show huge houses, expensive cars, enormous parties, and other trappings of luxury. One character's wealth is mentioned frequently.

Diverse Representations

Many characters are people of color, but their race is not referred to and the central group of friends all seem like similarly privileged and empty-headed teens, while the action is centered on a young, thin, White woman. This show is set in Hawaii, a state with a large population of indigenous people, but the culture of Hawaii is reduced to images of tiki torches and references to Hawaiian food. At least one character is pansexual, and his sexual identity is considered no big deal by his family and friends.

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Positive Messages

Positive messages are few and far between. The overall vibe is downbeat, teens are reduced to stereotypes, Hawaii is reduced to a colorful backdrop, and the intent seems to be to startle and shock.

Positive Role Models

It's far too easy to reduce each character into a few words, e.g., Margot is rich, insecure, and a social media influencer, Lennon is a party girl whose antics hide her inner emptiness, and so forth. Characters consistently make mistakes and often pay for them with physical violence and/or death.

Parents need to know that I Know What You Did Last Summer is a downbeat mystery/suspense drama -- based on a 1973 YA adult novel that was also adapted into a hit movie of the same name in 1997 -- with lots of iffy content. The drama is built around an accidental death that turns into a coverup, with a victim and perpetrator who are different than in the book and movie. Expect to see a dead body at length (with some blood on the head but basically looking asleep), somewhat bloody slasher-style murders that are heavy on the stalking, and gruesome sights like a (not very realistic looking) decapitated animal's head. Drugs play a major part in the narrative; one character sells drugs, and viewers see her delivering drugs like ketamine in a nasal spray that another character sniffs and urges a friend to try. Teens drink, smoke from pipes, smoke cigarettes, and snort white powder; some get into a car while "very f--ked up" (this is followed by a car crash). Nudity is both sexual (a man's bare buttocks rhythmically pressing against a window) and non-sexual (a man's penis is visible as he urinates into a pool); there's also flirting, dating, passionate kissing, and references to off-screen sex. One teen accuses another of having sex with a teacher for a better grade. Language includes "f--k," "s--t," "c--t," "p---y." The cast is diverse in terms of race and ethnicity, but the action centers on a White teen, and characters are largely stereotypes who seem like props in a drama in which the really important thing is the old stalk-and-slash.

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When Lennon ( Madison Iseman ) returns home to Hawaii after a year at college on the mainland, she comes back to chaos. Her twin sister Allison (Iseman) is still missing, her group of OG-from-kindergarten friends seem curiously distant, and then the worst thing of all: the bloody mess she finds in her closet with a scrawled message: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. And as it happens, last summer, Lennon climbed into a car with Margot (Brianne Tju), Dylan (Ezekiel Goodman), Riley (Ashley Moore), and Johnny (Sebastian Amoruso), and was responsible for a profound tragedy by the time she got out. Now Lennon and her friends are in mortal danger, from someone who knows something and won't let up until this quintet of teens has paid the price for what they did.

Is It Any Good?

The old-school YA novel it's based on was pretty great, but this adaptation fails to stick the landing thanks to narration-heavy dialogue, shoehorned-in seaminess, and a bewildering twist. First, the source material: Lois Duncan's 1973 book I Know What You Did Last Summer was YA suspense before there was even a category for books like these. In it a group of average kids make a terrible, morally indefensible yet understandable choice that haunts them in the form of a murderous stalker. Like the 1997 movie of the same name, this adaptation changes the victim of that morally indefensible choice, and adds in a measure of soap-opera-ish plot complication connected with hidden identities and long-held secrets.

It all comes across as a fairly standard would-be ripoff of the dark teen dramas that have caught and held the zeitgeist in recent years -- Riverdale, Euphoria, Pretty Little Liars . The creators of this series seem determined to shove in as much R-rated content as possible, as is encapsulated by one scene in the show's pilot containing this couplet of dialogue between two teens sharing liquor and drugs in the backseat of a car: "Who wants shots?" "I'll take an eight-ball!" By the time we get to the first big twist, many viewers will already be tuning out this seen-it-but-done-better confusing mess of a show.

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Families can talk about whether it's OK to show teen sex , drinking , and drug use on TV. Do shows like I Know What You Did Last Summer present a realistic view of teen life, or is anything exaggerated for entertainment? What would the real-life consequences of the characters' behavior be?

Reboots and remakes are common on TV and at the movies. Have you seen the 1997 movie of the same name or read the 1973 book on which both versions are based? If you have, does it heighten or detract from this version of I Know What You Did Last Summer ? Conventional wisdom says the book version is usually better than the cinematic/televised version; does that wisdom hold true here?

I Know What You Did Last Summer contains nudity, particularly male full-frontal nudity, which is rare in American movies and TV shows. Why? Why are women shown nude more frequently than men? How often is the nudity in this show related to sex and how often is it nonsexual -- e.g., people bathing or changing? Does it matter?

Premiere date : October 15, 2021
Cast : Madison Iseman , Ashley Moore , Ezekiel Goodman
Network : Amazon Prime Video
Genre : Drama
TV rating : TV-MA
Last updated : February 28, 2022

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Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.
After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave and he's looking for more than an apology. — Anonymous
When four friends accidentally hit and kill a man on a road at night, they start to panic and decide to dump the body into the sea. A year later, they all try to settle down again, but one of the friends receives a note in the post, with the words 'I know what you did last summer'. As each of the friends gains their own reminder, they finally accept the one thing they feared the most; someone knows what happened that night, and now they're out for revenge. — FilmFanUK
After Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wins a beauty pageaent, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Barry William Cox (Ryan Phillippe), and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) are celebrating along with graduation on the 4th of July. The four friends go to a party and decide to head out to the beach in the middle of the night. Barry, who is intoxicated, decides to let Ray drive his car back home from the beach. On their way home, they hit and apparently kill a man who is walking in the road. While thinking what to do with the corpse, Julie's friend Max Neurick (Johnny Galecki) arrives. Julie tells him that everything is fine so he leaves. While dumping the body in a nearby sea, the body becomes alive and tries to attack Helen. They dump the corpse in the ocean and agree to never discuss again what had happened. — Tristan Williams
It's the fourth of July and four friends Julie, Ray, Helen, and Barry are celebrating along with graduation. On their way home they hit a pedestrian walking down a curved corner. They make a pact to keep it a secret in hopes of saving their futures. While dumping the body in a near by sea, the body becomes alive and tries to attach Helen. They throw him in and never return to that site. One year later, Julie returns home from college for summer break. In the mail she receives a letter stating that "I know what you did last summer." Julie freaks out and gathers up her old friends who are now separated, miserable and not speaking. They all decide to find out who saw them that fateful night and in the process of tracking the suspect down, the body count goes up. — Kyle <[email protected]>
It's the 4th of July, 1996 and four high school seniors, Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), her boyfriend Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr), Julie's best friend Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Phillippee) decide to have some fun on their last summer as kids. So they party and get drunk and go to an isolated beach by their town. While on the beach, they discuss their futures beyond their small town, as well as discuss an urban legend regarding a young couple who find a hook attached to their car door. Since Ray is the only one of them that is sober, he is tasked with driving them back home. The ride soon gets out of control when Barry spills alcohol in the car, distracting Ray, who accidentally hits a random stranger on the road. The incident soon turns ugly when the group begin to argue over what happened. The police won't believe it as an accident, since there's alcohol spilled in the car, and the car belongs to Barry. The situation grows worse when a vehicle appears in the distance. This turns out to be another local teenager, named Max (Johnny Galecki). Julie distracts him by saying they just had car trouble, and he drives on. Once he's gone, the talk turns to disposing of the body to hide what happened. Julie feels that they should tell what they did but Barry, drunk and in a violently-upset rage, demands that no one be told, with Helen taking Barry's side. They take it down to the nearby docks and dump the body in the water, with Barry making everyone swear to take the secret to their graves. One year later and now a freshman in college, Julie goes home for the summer. While at home, her Mom gives her a letter that was received, but it has no return address and is not postmarked. Inside, she finds a folded piece of paper with a message: "I Know What You Did Last Summer!" Panicked over their secret having gotten out, Julie goes to Helen's sister Elsa (Bridgette Wilson), to inquire for Helen's number in New York. However, Elsa soon reveals that Helen went to college in New York and then came back, now working in their family's store. They then go to see Barry. Barry claims that no one can know, and as the three discuss that fateful night, Barry recalls how Max drove by, and he was the only person there that night. Barry immediately suspects him, and the three head down to the nearby docks. Barry claims he'll 'talk' to Max in private, but Barry gets carried away, threatening Max with an ice pick, telling him to leave them alone, even though Max claims he has no idea what Barry is talking about. While down at the docks, Julie finds Ray working off a fishing boat down there. He tries to patch things up regarding their now-broken relationship, but she runs off. Back inside Max's workplace, unseen by anyone, Max is killed when an unseen person uses the ice pick that Barry had threatened Max with. Later that evening, Barry goes to a local gym to workout. In the locker room, he hears a sound. Looking around the locker room, Barry finds nothing until he returns to his locker. He soon finds a Polaroid photo of his BMW, with a message written on the back: "I Know." Barry also finds that his jacket is gone. Rushing out of the locker room, Barry see his car turn on, and back off down the road. Barry gives chase, only to have the driver attempt to run him down. The driver, wearing a dark fisherman's rain slicker and wielding a large ice hook, gets out of the car and stands over him. Barry ends up in the hospital, but is unable to tell the police anything about the person's identity, other than that he wore a black rain slicker, and carried an ice pick. In his hospital room, the four friends talk about what happened, with Barry still strongly against revealing what they did. Julie then reveals that she has been doing some investigating, and reveals that the name of the person they struck was David Egan. Feeling that maybe Egan survived and is staying with a local relative, Julie and Helen head out to the Egan's residence deep in the inland swamps. Julie and Helen arrive at David's house where they find David's moody older sister, Missy (Anne Heche). Missy explains that David's death devastated their family, as Julie and Helen act under the guise that their vehicle has broken down. While both of them originally think that Missy may be the killer, talking with her, they soon write her off their suspects list. However, Missy does explain that someone came after her brother had died, claiming to be his friend. When the girls ask for this person's name, Missy believes it to be 'Billy Blue'. Helen returns to her home that night, and prepares for the 4th of July parade the next morning. She does not notice the fisherman sneaking into her house through the back door, going upstairs and hiding in her bedroom closet. Waking up the next morning, she is horrified to find that someone has slashed her hair in the night, and written 'Soon' on her vanity mirror. Helen then calls Barry and Julie to come over quickly. On her way over, Julie hears a strange sound coming from the back of her car. Upon reaching Helen's, she hears something in the trunk and opens it, to reveal Max's dead body, with crabs crawling over him! Julie rushes in to tell Barry and Helen, but when they return, the crabs and Max's body have disappeared from the trunk. Barry assumes Julie was hallucinating, but she swears she did see Max's dead body. Julie, Helen, and Barry confront Ray about the recent events, which Barry thinks that Ray is behind it. Ray strongly denies being the one and claims that whoever knows is after him too for he received a similar letter. Julie decides to revisit Missy to ask her more questions about David Egan and about the visitor 'Billy Blue', while Helen and Barry go to participate in the 4th of July parade. During the parade, Barry keeps an eye out for the killer, but notices that there are several people wearing the dark rain slickers running about. Chasing one, Barry leaves Helen on one of the parade floats. As it passes by a 2-story building, she notices a shadowy figure in a black rain slicker, reveal an ice pick in a threatening way as the float passes by. Meanwhile, Julie arrives back at Missy's house in hopes to convince her that her brother is still alive, and to secretly find out more about who the stranger called Billy Blue was. Missy tells Julie that her brother is dead, and presents her with a suicide note that was left by him which reads 'I will never forget last summer'. Julie thinks that the handwriting matches that of the note she received, and tries to convince Missy that her brother is not dead. However, Missy soon grows upset by Julie's ravings, and orders her to leave her property. At the annual Croaker Pageant, Helen is in attendance as her reign as the Croaker Queen is about to come to an end. Barry is watching from an upstairs balcony, but as the pageant goes on, Helen lets out a yell when she sees the killer pull Barry into the shadows! Rushing upstairs with a police officer, they look around but find no sign of the killer or Barry. The officer thinks Helen imagined it, and offers to take her home. On the way there, the officer cuts through an alley and finds someone working on their truck engine, which has stalled across the street. The officer gets out to investigate, only to come face-to-face with the killer, who kills the officer with the ice hook. Helen manages to break out of the police car, and rushes for her family's store, where her sister Elsa lets her in. Helen demands that Elsa lock all the doors, but before Elsa can finish the job, the killer enters through a side door and slashes her to death. The killer then stalks after Helen, chasing her out of the store, down an alley, and near a pile of used tires where she is killed steps away from the 4th of July parade that is going on. Meanwhile, Julie has returned to town does some further research into the death of David Egan. A year before the 'accident,' David and his girlfriend Susie were involved in a car crash not far from where the film's 'accident' scene occurred. David survived, but Susie died. The research mentions that Susie had a father, named Ben Willis. Julie then figures it out: They did not kill David Egan that night! Her assumption is that David had been found along the road by Ben, who killed him and disposed of the body. But before Ben could get home, the four crashed into him during their joyride that night. Julie then decides to tell Ray who is working down by the docks. She explains her theory, but he doesn't believe it. As they talk, she suddenly notices the name of the boat he works on Billy Blue! Julie panics, thinking that Ray may actually be the murderer and takes off running, only to be chased by Ray before a fisherman stops him, and puts her onto his boat. As she looks around the boat, she finds one room that contains photos and other articles about her, Helen, Barry and Ray... and realizes that she is on Ben's boat! Ben has set the boat adrift and intends to kill Julie, who leads him on a cat-and-mouse chase through the ship. Eventually, Julie winds up in an ice room to store fish, and finds the corpses of Helen and Barry. Ray manages to come to his senses, and takes a small motorboat, catching up to Ben's boat. In the end, Ray manages to use the ship's rigging to save Julie, causing Ben to lose his arm in which he carried the hook, and plummets over the side. All that is found of Ben is the severed arm with the hook in the hand. When the Police question Julie and Ray about why Ben would have wanted to kill them, they claim they have no idea. A year later, Julie is enjoying another year of college, and is getting ready to return to her hometown to see Ray. As she prepares to take a shower, her college roommate says that there was a letter left for her. Fearing the same thing as before, Julie is relieved to find that it is an invitation to a pool party. Returning to the showers, the hot water has caused the room to steam up. As Julie heads towards one shower stall, she stops upon seeing writing on one of the doors, which reads: "I still know." The last shot is Ben, crashing through the glass shower door at the camera (aka Julie), the ice pick now embedded in the stump of his missing arm.

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Amazon's I Know What You Did Last Summer Review: Episodes 1-4

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Below is a spoiler-free review of the first four episodes of I Know What You Did Last Summer , which air on Amazon Prime on Oct. 15.

Following the enormous popularity of 1996's Scream, the inferior, Jennifer Love Hewitt-led I Know What You Did Last Summer snuck in to share the credit for reviving the slasher genre. Its coattails-riding success spawned a pair of abysmal sequels, ultimately cementing the fact that the horror series was never very good to begin with. Thankfully, Amazon Prime's I Know What You Did Last Summer limited series has nothing to do with the films, save for the fact that it's loosely based on the same source material – Lois Duncan's 1973 novel. And luckily, the show is leaps and bounds better than the movies. Still, a number of issues hold it back from becoming the sort of binge-worthy horror Netflix recently delivered with Midnight Mass .

The set-up is similar to its predecessor: A group of teenage friends are involved in a fatal car accident on their graduation night, and are then haunted – and hunted – a year later by someone who knows their dirty secret. Basic premise aside, the series features a fresh cast of characters, a new Hawaiian setting, and absolutely no sign of a meat hook-wielding madman in a rain slicker.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer's first episode wastes no time introducing its central characters, an obnoxious, self-absorbed group of horny, hard-partying teens with little regard or respect for anyone or anything. If it isn't obvious, this is the show's first major problem: there's really no one to root for or relate to among this lot of pretty, privileged young adults.

Madison Iseman, as identical twins Alison and Lennon, delivers the most layered, complex, and thoughtful performance of the bunch. And, when she's assuming the role of the former sibling, she's easily the series' most sympathetic character. Watching her embody a pair of sisters, defined by aggressively divergent personalities, is always a treat, but it also spotlights the flaws in the other characterizations.

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Alison and Lennon's friends Margot, Riley, Dylan, and Johnny – played by Brianne Tju, Ashley Moore, Ezekiel Goodman, and Sebastian Amoruso, respectively – all deliver solid performances, but they're just not given great material to work with. While they're not quite reduced to shallow, slasher film stereotypes, they also aren't afforded much opportunity to shed the irresponsible, selfish-teen facades that initially define them.

While the series premiere will find you struggling to pick a favorite character, its final act will still pull you in hard with a pair of absorbing plot twists. Assuming the accident that sets the mystery in motion is common knowledge, the show smartly serves it up as a mere appetizer to a much meatier main course. Best of all, these surprising turns aren't presented as one-and-done shocks, but complex plot points that could, potentially, take the narrative in any number of compelling directions. In this way, even if you see these twists coming a mile away, they still pack the potential for a satisfying payoff.

The opening episode's cliffhangers – as well as a gruesome discovery made just before its credits roll – will have you immediately pressing play on episode two. Unfortunately, while the next chapter delivers on some of the previous installment's promise, it also revisits some of its flaws, while introducing entirely new ones.

In the year since the event that's put the recent grads on an unknown killer's hit list, some of them have grown even more intolerable. Johnny and Dylan show some welcome emotional maturity and remorse in the wake of that horrible night, but Riley and, especially Margot, are more interested in delivering sarcastic quips and clever pop-culture references than reflecting on what they were involved in, or the fact they're being hunted by a psychopath.

More than a problem with how these characters are written, however, these frequent attempts to pepper dialogue with snarky, relevant references speaks to the series' tonal inconsistencies. The show contains its fair share of darkness – not the least of which being the vehicular homicide at its story's center – but there's rarely a serious, emotionally charged moment that isn't undercut by a dumb sexual joke or other immature comment. It's not unusual for a scene to feature two characters crying and embracing over something really heavy – like, you know, a close friend being brutally murdered less than 24 hours ago – then quickly pivoting to a blowjob joke.

This uneven tone is pretty prevalent throughout episodes 2-4, especially when characters meet in the present day to try and piece together what's happening. But the series also relies heavily on flashbacks, which generally fare much better. The teens are still pretty insufferable in these pre-accident scenes, but at least their gross personalities aren't weighed against the heinous acts they'll soon commit. The flashbacks also offer some welcome backstory on the group, as well as tantalizing plot details that help fill in the present-day puzzles.

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These glimpses into the past pop up more frequently as the series progresses and, as a result, pave a more engrossing narrative path that slowly, but continually creeps closer to pulling back the curtain on the killer. Episode four, which also takes another satisfying, surprise turn, does an especially good job making the present more engaging by letting us peek into the past. If this trajectory is any indication, I Know What You Did Last Summer's second half will be better than its first.

In terms of delivering satisfying scares, the series spins its wheels a bit, quite literally in the case of a mysterious truck – with tinted windows, of course – that stalks Lennon for much of the second and third episodes. This uninspired trope is joined by another genre classic, the always reliable “scary noises” revealed to be scurrying rats. There's also an over-reliance on jump scares manifested by people suddenly appearing in places they're unexpected; characters spend an inordinate amount of time turning around or taking corners, only to be “surprised” by a person standing in front of them. These familiar frights tend to be the norm, but there's still plenty of gory and gruesome surprises, as well as several unexpected twists that not only turn the stomach, but steer the narrative in new, satisfying directions.

I Know What You Did Last Summer's unlikable characters, inconsistent tone, and occasional cookie-cutter scares are at odds with Madison Iseman's excellent, dual-character performance and the series' fresh, clever twists on the source material. While it is so far better than the films that came before it, it's far from the must-binge horror reimagining we were hoping for. All that said, it's hooked us enough to ensure we'll stick with it until every one of its annoying teens meets their bitter end.

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Loosely based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel I Know What You Did Last Summer, this 1997 slasher follows a group of friends who, after covering up a car accident, are stalked by a killer wielding a hook. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., Johnny Galecki, and Bridgette Wilson star with a script from Scream writer Kevin Williamson.

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Amazon’s ‘i know what you did last summer’: tv review.

Lois Duncan's beloved YA thriller heads to streaming in a loose adaptation that makes the persuasive argument that covering up a murder last summer probably wasn't a great idea.

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Before it was transformed into a slasher story in its 1997 big-screen adaptation, Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel I Know What You Did Last Summer was more of a morality thriller.

Yes, slasher films have their own moral codes, which tend to be arbitrary ways to let the audience at least subconsciously view the killer as a protagonist. But I Know What You Did Last Summer doesn’t tarry in debates over such questions as “Is having sex sufficient justification to be eviscerated by a man in a hockey mask?” In each incarnation of I Know What You Did Last Summer since that first feature, the main characters killed somebody, or at least were accessories to murder, and their process of covering up said crime in order to protect their own lives makes them worthy of some measure of punishment, even if that punishment isn’t necessarily quite on the level of being run through with a harpoon. Quibble with his methodology, but the main tormenter is close to the hero of I Know What You Did Last Summer. And the villain? Well, it’s teenage self-absorption.

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If you like your slasher-horror movies thrilling, suspenseful, and desperately ‘90s, you likely love I Know What You Did Last Summer . In tandem with the Scream franchise, the first I Know film came out in 1997 and gave teens nightmares about killers with fisherman’s hooks for years to come. Find out how (and where) to watch all of the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies in order below!

The I Know What You Did Last Summer films are based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel of the same name and feature an all-star ‘90s cast, including Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr. The four play two couples who accidentally hit and seemingly kill a man on a dark winding road in North Carolina. Afraid of the consequences, they dump the body — only the be stalked a year later by someone sending them anonymous notes that they “still know” what they did last summer.

Watch the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies in order

The I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise currently has three instalments, with an untitled fourth on the way. The first two came out in quick succession, with the second acting as a direct sequel. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer still stars Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt and features additional ultra ‘90s starpower with the additions of Brandy and Mekhi Phifer to the cast. This time, they’re being stalked by the killer in the Bahamas.

Here are all of the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies in order of release:

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)
Untitled Sequel (2025)

The third instalment, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, came out in 2006 as a direct-to-video standalone feature. The film features an all-new cast and setting in Colorado. Because the third film is a standalone feature, it makes the most sense to watch the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies in order of release, which is also in chronological order.

So far, precious little is known about the untitled 2025 instalment, but there are rumours that it will feature Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt, along with a slew of famous younger cast members who can carry future additions — similar to the newer films in the Scream franchise.

In addition, there is also a 2021 I Know What You Did Last Summer series produced by Amazon. While it only lasted one season, it’s a great option to tide you over if you really want to sink your hooks into every addition of this slasher franchise.

Where to watch the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies in order

Find out how (and where) to watch all of the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies in order by scrolling down to the list below. The films are all available to stream across a variety of platforms, including Amazon Prime Video , Netflix , ITVX , and more!

I Know What You Did Last Summer

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets to the Bahamas, Julie finds this a perfect opportunity to finally relax. But someone is waiting for her. Someone who she thought was dead. Someone who is out again for revenge.

I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer

Several teenagers in a small-town in Colorado concoct a July 4th prank based on a frightening legend that goes awry when their friend ends up accidentally killed; however, the teens agree to keep their involvement a secret from the authorities, who continue to search for the man who apparently killed their friend. A year later, with the July 4th celebration coming up again, the teenagers realize that they're being stalked by someone who clearly intends on keeping the horrible legend alive by killing them off.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

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On graduation night, Julie, Helen, Ray and Barry get into Barry's new Beamer and rush off into the night. No one sees the body that seems to fly out of nowhere directly into the new car's grill. There is only one way out of this nightmare, only one place where the body can never be traced back to them ... and as they push the body off a seaside pier, they think their secret slides into the murky depths with it. They're wrong. The four friends swear to take their secret to their graves. But that time might come around sooner than they think. Someone is stalking them. Everywhere they go, he is there. He knows who they are. He saw what they did. One by one, he will bring the same terror to them that they brought to the stranger whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Before ‘The Front Room,’ Brandy Was 100% the Best Part of This Sequel to a Horror Classic

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Brandy Rayana Norwood is an icon in every sense of the word. She's been adored by fans for generations, defining many viewers' childhoods as it was hard to find a medium in the '90s that she wasn't completely conquering. From singing to acting to dancing, she's always excelled, but some might be confused to hear that she's had quite a presence in horror cinema . Currently, she's leading Sam and Max Eggers' The Front Room — an A24 psychological horror film that pits Brandy's Belinda against the mother-in-law from Hell ( Kathryn Hunter ). But this isn't the first time Brandy has made her mark on a spooky flick. In 1998, she co-starred in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer , Danny Cannon 's direct sequel to one of the genre's most influential movies (if only its sequel could say the same), I Know What You Did Last Summer .

Unfortunately, this follow-up failed to reach the original's heights; fans grew annoyed quickly with the hollow way it tried to replicate the original's dread and the wild choices it decided to make with the returning main characters. But, despite all odds, Brandy was able to rise above all of this . Her performance as the classic "best friend" archetype not only elevated the entire film but created a subversively powerful version of this long-lasting trope. Viewers of The Front Room have been thrilled to see just what an excellent, petrifying performance this actress can provide. But if some are still wondering if she has what it takes to lead a scary movie before buying their ticket, all they need to do is watch her as Karla in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer .

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Brandy Both Gave Us Compelling Horror Best Friends

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a direct sequel to 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer , a staple of the post- Scream '90s slasher boom. The first film follows Julie ( Jennifer Love Hewitt ) and her ex-boyfriend Ray ( Freddie Prinze Jr. ) as they are targeted by a shady figure who knows their darkest secret: When drunkenly driving with their best friends, Helen ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) and Barry ( Ryan Phillippe ), they hit a man and dumped his supposedly dead body in the ocean . This masked killer stalks and dispatches their closest friends one by one until they supposedly defeat him in a climactic confrontation. This bloody fight rekindles their love, and the second movie finds them in a relationship again as Julie embarks on a Bahamas getaway with a group of college pals (aka prospective victims) only to discover the original's big villain wasn't as dead as they thought. The film has long been critiqued for how clunky it feels compared to the first , with shoehorned mysteries and strange characterizations taking away so much of the compelling mystery that made the first film so great. Yet, for all of that mess, there's one character who tries their hardest to bring some of the original's affability into this sophomore outing: Brandy's Karla Wilson.

Even beyond being a part of what many label a lackluster sequel, Brandy had a huge hurdle to overcome in the form of Julie's original best friend, Helen Shivers. This performance is renowned for just how much depth Gellar brought into the archetype of "vapid beauty queen"; the actress impressed with how complex she made what could have been a very simple character . Her scenes with Julie offered a warm reprieve from the unending anxiety that was this first film and actually granted her a level of personality most didn't expect — which is why many are still so devastated she didn't make it out of the movie alive . Her (what some would say easily avoidable) death was made so much more impactful because of how much audiences grew to love this character over the course of the movie; the complexities they knew she contained made it that much more brutal to watch her be mercilessly cut down. She created one of the genre's most beloved best friends and gave Brandy an almost unreachable standard to try and meet . Well, the actress not only meets it, but she gives watchers something that they were desperately missing with Helen: an amazing best friend who actually survives.

'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' Reinvents the "Best Friend" Trope

Brandy and Jennifer Love Hewitt in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

The horror genre is filled with tropes , with Karla's status in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer fitting perfectly within "the best friend" motif that Helen had begun fighting against years prior. There are countless examples of these in scary movies, the young women who accompany our central protagonist and whose whole identity is supporting their best friend — the actually important "final girl" — through whatever terrors her film has in store. These characters rarely stand out, each one embodying a supportive yet not-too-distinct image before getting slashed near the climax of the film to emphasize the stakes of what's happening onscreen . (Look no further than Rose McGowan 's Tatum in Scream. ) Their only purpose is to support our actual protagonist and get themselves into dangerous situations, almost always being killed before the credits roll and rarely getting the proper amount of mourning that the death of a best friend should warrant. It's a long-practiced, tired trope, which Brandy subverts perfectly.

The Front Room Interview: Brandy Norwoord and Kathryn Hunter

Brandy and Kathryn Hunter Discuss Their Twisted Face-Off in 'The Front Room'

Brandy and Kathryn Hunter face off in the thriller, 'The Front Room.'

Even though almost all of Karla's scenes are paired with Julie complaining about murders and/or her relationship, Brandy still manages to imbue this character with legitimate depth and a surprising amount of comedy. She adds a warmth that goes beyond the affection Karla is manufactured to have for our main protagonist, balancing her care with a valid irritation over Julie's boyfriend and life decisions (her hilariously relatable line reading of "You have to sell his ass on the Bahamas?" is a defining moment of the film). Whether it be asking Jack Black to go take a bath, giddily discussing how she plans to change her major after surviving the island or wordlessly cutting down anyone who mocks her friend with a harsh glance, Brandy creates an endearing character who does so much more than simply supporting the main characters .

Pair this with a scream worthy of any final girl — one moment even has her defending Julie with a blade, a nice switch for these archetypes — and it's no wonder why the film ends with Karla triumphantly joining our main duo as they survive the island's terrors, the three walking off into the proverbial and physical sunset. Her living to the credits is unexpected in itself, but it's in the casual ways that Brandy turns this caricature into a believable, compelling person that makes her a horror best friend like no other . It makes audiences care about her in a way that this archetype rarely receives, and the ending becomes so much more emotional when viewers realize not only that Karla survived but that Julie wouldn't have to bury another best friend.

Brandy Made the Most of a Stereotypical Horror Character

Even though Karla's survival in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer subverts the genre's norms, that doesn't mean that the character doesn't fall into many of this trope's usual traits. Her blind allegiance to Julia often reduces her to the basic supporting role, and the character's minute moment of triumphantly walking away from the carnage in the film's climax seems to literally slate her as a thematic afterthought. Yet that's what makes this performance so compelling, because just like so many of the best friends in horror, Karla was an afterthought — but Brandy made her more.

She found the nuances in this character, utilizing all the screentime allotted and creating a sense of personality that is so often missing from the supporting cast in movies like these. It grants her a substantial presence (a wonder for this kind of character) and adds gravity to every horrific scene she is a part of, her utterly badass survival in the film's climax acting as catharsis for such an ingenious approach to this persona. She did the most with what many would consider a small part and improved her whole film by doing so, making it no question that not only can she lead The Front Room , but that she truly did Helen Shivers proud.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

The murderous fisherman with a hook is back to once again stalk the two surviving teens, Julie and Ray, who had left him for dead, as well as cause even more murder and mayhem, this time at a posh island resort.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is available to stream on Hulu in the U.S.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer Just Officially Cast A Legacy Actor, And There’s More Good News

The next Fisherman had better start sharpening their hook.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr in I Know What You Did Last Summer

While the 2024 movies designed to thrill, delight, and scare audiences seem to have been doing the trick, there are more projects already looking to step into the limelight. The recently announced I Know What You Did Last Summer legacy-quel is such a project, especially with OG stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt both in talks to return.

Fans are going to love the latest update on the other massive late ‘90s horror hit’s new groove, as the next chapter has now officially cast a legacy actor, with even more good news waiting on the hook. Per reporting out of Variety , fans of Ray Bronson should be prepared to see what he looks like almost three decades later.

That’s because Freddie Prinze Jr. has now been announced as confirmed to be returning for what will be his third appearance in the series. As Prinze’s earlier I Know What You Did Last Summer update had him noted as “in talks,” this announcement feels like it’s been a long time coming. Speaking of “talks,” the other good news about this report is the fact that Jennifer Love Hewitt is working on her own deal to potentially return as well.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze. Jr. in I Know What You Did Last Summer

Fans of both entries in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise could probably say this was something bound to happen. I mean, Hewitt herself teased the possibility earlier this year as well, but in a post- Scream VI world, we horror folks have learned not to take legacy cast members’ returns as granted. Still, if only a contract is standing between the 9-1-1 star and a new round of terror, the matter is still further along than it was yesterday.

The clock continues to tick on though, as the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel is rumored to start shooting in October . We’ve already seen scheduling conflicts alter the roster of young cast members, as Riverdale alum Camilla Mendes left the film to fulfill her role in the latest iteration of the cinematic reboot of Masters of the Universe. So while you might be inspired to celebrate both Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt being back in the mix, you should hold off until that dotted line is signed.

A fourth I Know What You Did Last Summer picture is something legacy fans are probably still pumped over, and that fact could work in Hewitt’s favor at the bargaining table. But just in case there is a last minute break down in negotiations, at least 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer did the series a favor in setting up a potential exit for Julie:

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We’ll have to continue to wait and see what happens with the latest I Know What You Did Last Summer legacy-quel. But in the meantime, you can stream the original 1997 classic, on AMC+, which can easily be added onto a valid Prime Video subscription .

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The Cast of I Know What You Did Last Summer : Where Are They Now?

Sure, you know what they did that summer, but do you know what they're up to now?

The year was 1997, and the horror was real.

I Know What You Did Last Summer hit theaters that summer, bringing scares to teens via a perfectly '90s cast and a quick sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, the following year.

"The first one, I was terrified," star Jennifer Love Hewitt told Entertainment Tonight in 2024. "I couldn't sleep [when] we were doing the first movie because I literally would be up until the middle of the night with somebody chasing me and then they'd be like, 'Okay, it's a wrap. Go home.' " she recalled. "How does one sleep during this process?"

She wasn't the only one! The film made $125 million, propelled its cast into superstardom and is coming back with another sequel, reportedly starring Hewitt and original costar Freddie Prinze Jr., among others.

Here, catch up with the all-star cast of I Know What You Did Last Summer , then and now.

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James

Jennifer Love Hewitt survived the slasher flick and went on to star in Can't Hardly Wait and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer . The '90s darling also starred in the television series Party of Five and tried her hand at a music career with songs like "BareNaked" and " How Do I Deal ."

Love Hewitt eventually found a sweet spot in television, starring in Ghost Whisperer for five seasons, following that up with roles on The Client List , Criminal Minds and, most recently, 9-1-1 .

In 2013, she married Brian Hallisay, one of her The Client List costars. They now have three young children together, Autumn, Atticus and Aidan.

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Helen Shivers

Sarah Michelle Gellar played pageant queen Helen Shivers in the film, ultimately meeting a brutal and bloody end.

But it wasn't all death and doom for Gellar, who married her costar , Freddie Prinze Jr., after meeting him on the I Know What You Did Last Summer set. The pair wed in 2002 and share two children, Charlotte and Rocky.

Gellar followed her role in the film with a seven-season run as Buffy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . She also starred in films like Cruel Intentions , Scream 2 and Scooby-Doo. Next up, she stars in the new series Dexter: Original Sin .

Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson

'90s heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr. won the hearts of many when he played amateur fisherman/Julie's ex-boyfriend, Ray.

Aside from being married to his costar for the past two decades, Prinze Jr.'s other major roles include starring in She's All That , Summer Catch and Scooby-Doo (alongside his wife).

In 2005, Prinze Jr. had his very own show, Freddie , which was inspired by his own life. He also appeared on 24 in 2010 and has done quite a bit of voice acting since then.

He also published a cookbook, which makes him an author, too! Prinze Jr. penned Back to the Kitchen: 75 Delicious, Real Recipes (& True Stories) from a Food-Obsessed Actor.

In September 2024, it was announced that Prinze Jr. is joining the cast of the IKWYDLS upcoming sequel film , likely alongside Hewitt.

Bridgette Wilson as Elsa Shivers

Bridgette Wilson hasn't had an on-screen part since 2008, but followed up her role as Sarah Michelle Gellar's sister with roles in films like Love Stinks , The Wedding Planner and Shopgirl .

She married tennis star Pete Sampras in 2000 and the pair share two teen children, Christian and Ryan.

Muse Watson as Ben Willis

Who knew a fish hook could be so terrifying?

Since playing the fisherman who terrorizes the teens in I Know What You Did Last Summer (and its follow-up, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ), Muse Watson has appeared in many TV shows and films like Walker, Texas Ranger , Criminal Minds , Jennifer Love Hewitt's show, Ghost Whisperer, and CSI, to name a few.

Most notable, however, were his roles in Prison Break and NCIS . Watson continues to act, though we haven't seen him with a fish hook in quite some time.

Johnny Galecki as Max Neurick

Before he was the first to die in the now-classic film, Johnny Galecki was best known for his role on Roseanne , which he reprised on the reboot of the series in 2018 and on The Conners , which recently aired on ABC.

He's best known for his part on The Big Bang Theory , which ran from 2006 to 2019 and made Galecki one of the highest-paid male actors in television, at one point making around $1 million per episode . Not so bad for the first to perish!

He has one young child with ex Alaina Meyer, and a second with wife Morgan.

Ryan Phillippe as Barry Cox

Luckily, Ryan Phillippe 's acting career wasn't as short-lived as the life of his character, Barry Cox.

He went on to star in Cruel Intentions , Crash , Flags of Our Fathers and The Lincoln Lawyer, among other films. He also appeared on various TV shows like Damages and Shooter .

Phillippe was married to Cruel Intentions costar Reese Witherspoon from 1999 to 2007, and the pair share two grown children, Ava and Deacon. Phillippe is also dad to daughter Kai, whom he shares with ex-girlfriend, Alexis Knapp.

In 2017, Phillippe was accused of assault by his former girlfriend Elsie Hewitt, though the actor denied the claims and eventually reached a settlement with the model in October 2019. You can see him next in Prey.

'I Know What You Did Last Summer' sequel casts Freddie Prinze Jr.: What we know so far

An iconic slasher is getting new life.

Another sequel to the 1997 box office hit " I Know What You Did Last Summer " is in the works at Sony Pictures with some of the original cast on board.

A source who is familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak publicly confirmed Freddie Prinze Jr. , who played Ray Bronson in the franchise, has joined the cast, with his on-screen love Jennifer Love Hewitt (Julie James) in talks to make a return.

Neal Moritz, who produced "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and its 1998 sequel "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" as well as the straight-to-video 2006 installment "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer" – which was a standalone movie with a new cast – will return as a producer.

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Why Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. are on board for the slasher sequel

Before his casting was confirmed, Prinze Jr. was enthusiastic about wanting to "make everything work" for a sequel.

"Everybody has to be happy with the script," he told Us Weekly in July. He also noted "there’s a lot of good things that make me want to do the movie," including Kaytin Robinson being attached to the film.

Prinze Jr. met his wife of more than 20 years, Sarah Michelle Gellar, while filming the 1997 movie. Her character, Helen Shivers, was among the teen casualties of the mysterious killer. Ryan Phillippe, Johnny Galecki and Anne Heche also starred in the original.

Hewitt also spoke with Us Weekly about he willingness to reprise her horror role.

"Listen, I loved doing those movies. There is nothing more fun than doing a horror movie. It’s the best. Julie James was awesome,” she told the outlet in May. "I do think that there’s unfinished business there, and so I would be happy to do it."

Here's everything we know about the newest addition to the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" franchise.

Who's in the 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' sequel cast?

Here's who is confirmed so far:

Freddie Prinze Jr.
Chase Sui Wonders
Madelyn Cline
Sarah Pidgeon
Tyriq Withers
Jonah Haur-King

When will the new 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' move come out?

The newest installment is due in theaters on July 18, 2025.

What is the 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' sequel about?

Details are scarce while the project is in early development.

“I don’t know. I won’t know where we find them,” Prinze Jr. told Us Weekly of protagonists Ray and Julie, who also starred in the 1998 sequel. “I don’t know what world they’re gonna play in."

One clue fans have been given is a social media post from Kaytin Robinson that confirms the new installment will build off the 1998 sequel.

"I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is part of the canon, she confirmed on X , formerly Twitter, in a July post responding to a rumor that the 2025 film "is reportedly ignoring previous sequels."

In 2014, an "I Know What You Did Last Summer" reboot was in the works at Sony Pictures with writers Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard. However, that project didn't come to fruition; instead, a series of the same name landed on Amazon Prime Video and was canceled after one season.

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