Film Review – I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

Sequels can mean big business for Hollywood, and recently there’s been the trend of resurrection in horror cinema, bringing back old franchises for fresh exploitation, while the people in charge of titles have the easiest job of all. There was 2018’s “Halloween,” which was a sequel to 1978’s “Halloween,” and there was 2022’s “Scream,” which was a continuation of 1996’s “Scream.” Now there’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” which connects to 1997’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” putting co-writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (“Do Revenge”) in charge of reviving a brand name that’s been fully worked over (including two sequels and a television series), merging members of the original cast with a new team of panicking young characters. It’s a formula that resulted in box office success for other franchises, but the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer” isn’t exactly a thrilling ride of slasher cinema nostalgia, finding Robinson unable to recapture the simple charms of the original film. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com