SPOILERS: This put up accommodates particulars about I Know What You Did Last Summer time (2025)
As I Know What You Did Last Summer slashes its method into a brand new era, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson‘s requel has loads of surprises in retailer for followers of the OG.
The most recent horror franchise to return again from the useless, amid the likes of Halloween and Scream, the followup to the 1997 slasher flick and its ’98 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Last Summer time takes some large swings with its killer reveal, in addition to some top-secret cameos that longtime followers will admire.
With Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprising their roles from the earlier two movies as survivors and highschool sweethearts Julie James and Ray Bronson, nostalgia was inevitably going to be a significant component on this new installment, which additionally boasts a younger solid of recent potential victims (and suspects), together with Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers and Sarah Pidgeon.
Along with a number of Easter eggs—together with a freight elevator, a parade float, a steamy gymnasium locker room and a Scooby Doo reference—the sequel retains longtime followers hooked with a number of huge twists.
Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon and Freddie Prinze Jr. in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer time’ (2025) (Brook Rushton/Columbia Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Learn on for some main SPOILERS about I Know What You Did Last Summer time (2025).
Lengthy reside the Croaker Queen
“I am dead,” Sarah Michelle Gellar beforehand provided as a response as to if she’d reprise her position from the OG as Helen Shivers, following her family’s set visit in Australia with husband and former co-star Prinze.
Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer time’ (1997) (Columbia/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
A detailed pal of the director, it seems Gellar was simply enjoying coy about the truth that she makes a digitally de-aged cameo as Helen’s snarky ghost in a dream sequence of the guilt-laden Danica Richards (Cline), a fellow former Croaker Queen. Her cameo follows some heavy references to the doomed magnificence queen, together with a go to to what was as soon as Shivers Division Retailer.
The second earned a passionate response from the viewers on the film’s world premiere this week in Los Angeles, and it’s positive to have the identical impression in theaters on opening weekend, forward of Gellar’s highly-anticipated return to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Faculty reunion
Stick round for the credit, as a stinger brings again one other survivor of the franchise, Brandy Norwood‘s Karla Wilson from the ’98 Bahamian-set sequel, a cameo Robinson additionally teased.
Reacting to the information of one other vengeful bloodbath in Southport, North Carolina, Karla receives a menacing knock on the door. May it’s… Nick Fury? No, it’s Julie warning her with one other letter she acquired, together with a throwback picture of them, that includes a crimson X over Karla’s face.
With a few new ‘closing women’ becoming a member of the franchise, Julie and Karla appear poised to crew up in opposition to the remaining killer for an additional potential installment.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brandy Norwood in ‘I Nonetheless Know What You Did Last Summer time’ (1998) (Columbia Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Killer reveal
Following a fairly related plot and format as author Kevin Williamson and director Jim Gillespie’s function adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel, Robinson and co-writer Sam Lansky took a giant swing with the reveal of their requel’s killer, one which no different horror franchise has taken, at the very least in current reminiscence.
Avenging the dying of her non secular peer and sober buddy, Pidgeon’s Stevie Ward reveals in her large menacing monologue that she determined to take revenge on the group of former associates who lined up his dying, after beforehand deserting her throughout her darkest days.
The Fisherman in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer time’ (2025) (Matt Kennedy/Columbia Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
What first appears heartbreaking for Ray, who’s established as Stevie’s employer and father determine, quickly seems to be an much more stunning reveal. Coming head to head with Julie, he confesses to guiding Stevie’s murderous impulses to take revenge on the gentrified city that erased the trauma he endured (and for which he has apparently by no means sought assist) practically 30 years earlier than.
With Julie and Wonders’ Ava Brooks defeating Ray, his homicidal protege remains to be on the market and able to take revenge in one other installment.
