Cast: Madeline Klein, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hower King, Tariq Withers,Sarah Pidgeon, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, and Billy Campbell

Directed By: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

Release Year: 2025

Studio/Streamer: Sony

111 minutes

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What is it? A sequel to the first two films, but with a new gang of kids accidentally being responsible for someone’s death. They make a pact to never tell anyone, but a year later, they are haunted by messages and a killer with a hook. Perhaps the survivors of the previous films can help?

What Doesn’t Work: It worked for Scream, but it doesn’t work here. I love my nostalgia bait, and even this couldn’t grab my attention. I thought I’d be the one person on the planet to love this, and it just is a hard sell. First off, the accident has changed, so they don’t actually hit anyone. these geniuses decide to stop in the middle of the road to watch the fireworks, and cause another car to veer off the road.

And just like the epidemic of 28 years Later, where the belief is that we need to try and make things gorier, this one attempts to step it up a notch.While there aren’t many deaths, there are a few, and they are a bit more brutal than what we got back in 1997. One death was well described, as the hook went into someone’s head at an interesting angle.

Sadly, this film isn’t scary, and it decides too many people need to live. The ending walks back some of the “deaths”, as if they all just created fan favorites like Kirby from Scream and reshoots had been demanded. Don’t get me started on the way they rope in the old characters, who feel nothing like their former selves, completely changed by the events of the past. Our returning survivors are no longer on speaking terms, though both seem to be helping the new class to survive.

The killer twist is a two parter, with a reveal being obvious, and another being a letdown. this movie is so underwhelming, it only works as nostalgia bait, simply for me to see the old characters continuing on. I didn’t care about the new kids, and most of them ended up in extremely obvious circumstances. One girl does survive a lot of close calls, which made it fairly interesting.

They do bring back other cast from the franchise, whose appearances are a bit more in spoiler territory, but worked better than whatever they’ve interpreted that Hewitt and Prinze would turn out to be as adults.

The Audio Description: The kills are well described, with the gore on display as much as possible. As this is a sequel, they pay some homage to locations of the previous films, but also have to do their own thing, so the new locations got some nice description as well.

Why you Might Like it: You never saw the original, and have no comparison.

Why You Might Not Like it: Sadly, this is a rather incompetent, predictable slasher, with very little redeeming qualities. Any moments it has are fleeting, and bogged down by a new cast unable to solve a basic puzzle.

Final thoughts: I Know What You did Last Summer fails to capture any of the fun and surprise of the original film, and trades in an intelligent script for one coated in nostalgia, and just asking to be ripped apart with a fish hook.

Rotten: Final Grade: 5/10