I Know What You Did Last Summer

1997 was a wild year. Jennifer Love Hewitt and her pals in Southport, North Carolina, committed flat-out murder-and somehow managed to build a franchise out of what should've been a one-and-done slasher flick. Now, 27 years later, we're back with the worst-kept secret in horror history. What began with four friends has evolved into a new generation mirroring those same moments.

I'm all for paying homage and drawing inspiration from the original, but this film felt like callback central. Reference after reference. A loosely connected series of events that kind of made since... maybe. Its a legacy sequel so yeah expect some nostalgia, however the script seemed very rush and the film suffered because of it.

The connection between the original cast and the new generation was half-baked at best. I was glad to see Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., but their presence felt forced, like the film just wanted the audience to just go along with it.

As for the new stars there were some decent performances, a couple of laughs, however nothing truly stood out. I didn't feel invested in any of the characters and the film didn't give a reason why I should.

Let's talk about the guys first: they're not actors, they're perfume ad extras. You could swap them out like Pokémon cards and no one would notice. The girls? Even better. Half of them are on the "unlimited plastic surgery" plan, the other half have the charisma of a TikTok tutorial. To look modern, the script throws in a couple of pseudo-feminist lines-"see, we're progressive!" Result: a plastic cast that makes The Sims look like Italian neorealism.

Back in '97, at least you got a few chills. Here, the tension level is like watching Scooby-Doo without the dog. The Jennifer Love Hewitt/Freddie Prinze Jr-style twist? You see it coming like a train two miles away: it honks, it flashes, and everyone pretends to be shocked. And of course, the old trick of the camera lingering too long on a suspect so you know it's not him-thanks, but we've seen that a thousand times, even in Inspector Derrick.

It's 2025, and somehow these people film murders with less imagination than an eight-year-old with a PlayStation 2. No inventive gore, no striking set-pieces, nothing. It looks like a buggy Dead by Daylight DLC coded by an intern on sedatives. No sweat, no chills. In a slasher you're supposed to clench your ass-here, you're checking your phone between scenes.

A horror movie without a memorable score is like Star Wars without John Williams: it doesn't work. Here? Radio silence. No musical build-ups, no theme that sticks. It feels like they shot the film with the speakers unplugged. So when the killer finally shows up, you don't care-it's filmed like a wildlife documentary on PBS.

Everything reeks of leftovers: the dumb group of teens, the crappy pact, the mysterious killer's return... We've seen it all before, and way better, thirty years ago. And just to rub salt in the wound, they bring back the survivors from '97 to play consultants. It's not a movie, it's a "nostalgia special" episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple. And honestly, at least in Legends, you got a little adrenaline when the temple guards showed up.

This 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer is proof that Hollywood now has the creativity of flan. No scares, no tension, no desire-just a cynical product already built to spawn another useless sequel. We wanted to shiver, but in the end, the only scary thing is realizing they're still funding this crap. Bottom line: just rewatch the '97 one-at least back then, when you asked "who's the killer?", you weren't bored stiff waiting for the answer.

Five friends become responsible for a tragic car accident that results in a man's death. They decide to cover it up and swear never to speak of it again. But exactly one year later, the nightmare returns: a mysterious killer wielding a hook begins hunting down those involved. To stop the maniac, the group turns to the only people who've survived something similar - the victims of the 1997 Southport massacre.

As a fan of classic slashers like Scream and Urban Legend, I'll be blunt: if the filmmakers' goal was to make a straightforward remake with a new cast but no real changes to the script, the result is a missed opportunity. If they were aiming for the meta-approach of the later Scream sequels, referencing the original while updating the formula - it's not quite enough.

On the plus side: solid direction, a couple of effective jump scares, and decent visuals. But everything else feels derivative and predictable.

The film may spark nostalgia for fans of the genre, but it doesn't breathe new life into the franchise. If you've been missing slashers, it's worth a watch. If you were hoping for something more - unfortunately, this isn't it.

It started out so promising, I actually liked the characters and so fun to see characters from the previous movies. But god can't imagine any real fans being happy with this movie? Very obvious who the killer is which is fine. That how it usually is. But the ending, common? Shockingly bad! So unnecessary and stupid, made no sense and they spent no time explaining why?

Honestly the movie was okay until the last part of the movie, I would have wanted longer death scenes, with more chase, more drama and excitement but it kinda felt rushed unlike in the other movies. This could have been such a good movie, just disappointed.

This movie felt very reminiscent to the first I know what you did last summer, except a little bit worse in the overall picture. The movie does have its good moments where its really good, but it also have moments that made me scratch my head. The movie clings very heavily to the formula of the first movie which sometimes makes it feel more like a copy of the original movie rather than a sequel.

Starting with the good stuff I gotta say that the tension is very much there. The movie keeps you on toes and the kills are well done. The cast also delivers solid performances and it was nice to see the original characters return for this one. The movie does a good job at not getting boring or slow down too much which makes the movie have a nice pace.

As for the bad, the movie has the same problem as the first one had with who the killer was. I found the reveal in the first movie unsatisfying and a little lazy, but the reveal in this one literally makes no logical sense to me. The movie doesn't spend any time into the why the killer does what they do. It establishes no real reason to what linked the killer to the why. The characters in the movie are also ridiculously stupid in the movie to the point where their actions or reasons why they split up makes absolutely no sense. I'm fine with a character being written as stupid, this was characters written as being in defense mode doing absolutely everything not to be in a safe place. With that the movie also doesn't feel like its own movie as it constantly follows the tracks of the first movie, to the point where the movie almost holds the audience's hand just to say, "Oh do you recognize this from the old movie?"

Overall, I did have a good time watching the movie, but I also recognize that the movie doesn't try to do anything to make it stand on its own merit.