Skip to main content

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

Legacy reboots are all the rage these days and we have now reached the I Know What You Did Last Summer, the first came out in 1997, the sequel the following year and then in 2006 we got the last terrible instalment. The film follows a new group of irritating young people after they are involved in an accidental death and the following year they start getting a note saying…you know what it says. One of the few positives that they at least tried to do something different to make it less like they rehashed the original plot. In this version, the death happens when the car avoids hitting Teddy who is being irritating by thinking he has the right to be standing in the middle of the road at night when lighting is not great.

Like Jurassic World and Star Wars there is a mix of new and old. We have Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. return along with a surprise cameo from Sarah Michelle Gellar. Jennifer Love Hewitt makes a Ralph Macchio level appearance. She only appears in two or three scenes and only gets involved in the story in the final scene. It's like they had her for two days and this was what they came up with. Freddie Prinze Jr. has a bit more of an impact on the plot but it's not too much that it steals the spotlight from the new group. Freddie Prinze Jr seems at first to be a nostalgia return but the big twist is that he is the killer to try and make people remember what happened in 1997. It’s a twist which feels a little bit lazy and doesn’t really make much sense as to make people remember after the town was being redeveloped isn’t the worst thing in the world.

The new group aren’t as annoying as I would have expected. Danica walks the fine line as at times she is annoying but then she is less annoying. Ava is clearly the one that is the new Jennifer love Hewitt as she is the less annoying one but still has a personality. I thought that Chase Sui Wonders was the best of the new group and along with Madelyn Cline, its clear that if there are more films then these two will be the face of the franchise. I suspect we may get more because they probably made this cheaply with the big paychecks going to Hewitt, Prinze Jr. and Gellar.

I was slightly distracted with Milo ( Jonah Hauer-King), I thought he looked familiar but I couldn’t figure out where I had seen him before and I didn't want to turn my phone on so it just bugged me for the rest of the film and then and it turns out that he was Conrad Clarke who was a pretty important character in the last series of Doctor Who. Tyriq is your typical bloke who thinks he could take on anything and goes to the gym to try and be able to fight him off and when he has the chance to fight him then things go predictably wrong. I disliked him enough that I enjoyed it when he wasn't able to put up much of a fight against the killer.

I Know What You Did Last Summer wasn’t crying out for a legacy sequel but I suppose it was inevitable and it could have been worse and at best it is on par with the 1997 original. I hope that if there are more then they will attempt to do a better story. I’m not sure what they could do but anything would be more creative than what we got in this safe and slightly underwhelming horror outing. The 1997 version came at a time when we had Scream and films like that but the horror landscape has changed and you can't put this little effort into a film and expect to get away with it.



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

I really enjoyed the first Jurassic World film, yes some of the things were a bit silly and it was a bit of fan service but I still enjoyed it and thought it worked quite well. The second one took a bit of a dip in quality and the whole idea that there is a secret lab underneath a massive house did seem a bit silly. It did end with a cliffhanger and the potential for this final could have been about how we were dealing with the dinosaurs. This final part of the trilogy (whether it's the final Jurassic film is doubtful) was delayed because of the pandemic although how much of that is why this film was a huge disappointment is probably going to remain a mystery. The main problem with the film is that it feels like three movies in one. You have the Claire/Owen storyline then there is the original trio’s storyline with the return of Dodgson and then the meshing of the two. This means that it feels like they are throwing a lot at the wall to see what sticks. Dodgson is portrayed as some...
Post a Comment
Read more

Elio (2025)

Elio is a film that seemed like it could be a lot of fun based off the trailer which is a mistake as a trailer has more often than not made a film to look better than it is. The trailer didn’t suggest that Elio had lost his parents (deceased parents is such a typical Disney move) and he now lives with his aunt who works on an air force base. He gets interested in space and then wants to be abducted by aliens and gets his wish and ends up in the communiverse with a variety of different aliens. This includes a warmongering Lord Grigon. Elio is mistakenly thought of as the leader of Earth and soon finds himself trying to broker a peace with Grigon. In the middle of all this He makes friends with Glordon who is the son of Lord Grigon. Elio plans to use Glordon as a bargaining chip and when he comes to pick up fortis then things go wrong and that is when the plot really kicks in. The animation is your typical Pixar sort and it’s nice and can work in any type of story. It’s weird to think th...
Post a Comment
Read more

Hallow Road (2025)

Hallow Road stars Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys who are Maddie and Frank who are woken up in the middle of the night by their daughter Alice (Megan McDonnell) who has been in an accident and the movie is basically Maddie and Frank driving to the location talking to their daughter and it all takes place in the car.  The film is basically led by Pike and Rhys. Maddie wants to call the police and use a sympathetic police officer to help their daughter and yet Frank wants to take the blame and this leads to conflict between the two. One of the reasons why the film works in the way that it does is that these two work well together despite their characters being polar opposite. The fact that the film takes place inside the car apart from the opening couple of minutes and the final few minutes and still manages to be entertaining and gripping shows how good the performances were and also the writing. Credit has to go to director Batak Anvari for keeping things ticking along and never le...
Post a Comment
Read more