{"id":22094,"date":"2025-10-03T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=22094"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:06:16","slug":"i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=22094","title":{"rendered":"I Know What You Did Last Summer-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

I Know What You Did Last Summer-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Chase Sui Wonders, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Madelyn Cline<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #1,494<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed October 3, 2025<\/p>\n

Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer offering is pure nostalgia for fans of mainstream 1990s horror flicks. Those who love film franchises like Scream (1996-present) and Final Destination (2000-present) will be pretty pleased.<\/p>\n

I adored watching the film and traveling back to my youth, although I was startled by the revelation that the young cinema stars of the 1990s are now almost 50 years old.<\/p>\n

I only knew that Jennifer Love-Hewitt was returning by way of coming attraction trailers. Still, I had no idea that Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar were also returning, which added to my viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n

It felt like catching up with old friends you haven’t seen in nearly thirty years.<\/p>\n

While not a sequel to the 1997 original, it feels fresh with its clever ideas, twists and turns, and whodunit sensibilities, adding a refreshing dose of feminism that is timely.<\/p>\n

This can undoubtedly be due in large part to being directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, a female director who also co-wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n

Just like in 1997, when five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences.<\/p>\n

A year later, their past comes back to haunt them when one of the friends receives a threatening note, and they realize that someone knows what they did last summer.<\/p>\n

As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.<\/p>\n

The most fun is the whodunit factor and trying to figure out who is the one donning a fisherman’s cloak and brandishing a hook to slice and dice their victims to ribbons.<\/p>\n

Or does Robinson borrow a gimmick from the Scream films and make it two killers?<\/p>\n

Of course, the victim of the original summer tragedy shares a link with the killers, and plenty of red herrings are in store, adding to the enjoyment.<\/p>\n

The rulebook is slightly bent to allow for even more female empowerment than the original, wisely bringing Love-Hewitt’s Julie James back into the fold.<\/p>\n

Now older, wiser, and tougher, and a college professor, she serves as a coach and mentor to Ava Brucks (Chase Sui Wonders), the leader of the new group of friends.<\/p>\n

In a cool bit of inclusion, the character of Ava is bisexual, having a passionate bathroom encounter with a rocker chick while also having an ex-boyfriend, Milo (Jonah Hauer-King).<\/p>\n

It’s also revealed that Julie and Ray Bronson (played by Prinze Jr.) were once married and have a tumultuous past. This is appealing to viewers familiar with the duo from the original film.<\/p>\n

Putting the soap opera trimmings aside, the main highlight of I Know What You Did Last Summer is the accident during the first summer, the chase scenes, and the kill scenes, and the film wisely provides many of these.<\/p>\n

When Teddy (Tyriq Withers) and Danica (Madelyn Cline) go to a dark graveyard to snoop for information, it doesn’t bode well for either when the fisherman lurks nearby.<\/p>\n

These straightforward yet compelling sequences blend seamlessly with the finale aboard a yacht and later in a bar. The twists and turns, as well as the killer reveal, are well-written and character-themed, building on history and making sense.<\/p>\n

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) successfully takes a stroll down memory lane while providing jumps, scares, and even a few laughs along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I Know What You Did Last Summer-2025 Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Starring Chase Sui Wonders, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Madelyn Cline Scott’s Review #1,494 Reviewed October 3, 2025 Grade: B+ The 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer offering is pure nostalgia for fans of mainstream 1990s horror flicks. Those who love film franchises like … Continue reading I Know What You Did Last Summer-2025<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6506,8248,8249,8244,1931,13,8242,1928,8245,8243,1929,8247,310,8246],"tags":[6507,8256,8257,8252,1937,248,8250,1934,8253,8251,1935,8255,311,8254],"class_list":["post-22094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-films","category-billy-campbell","category-brandy-norwood","category-chase-sui-wonders","category-freddie-prinze-jr","category-horror-films","category-jennifer-kaytin-robinson","category-jennifer-love-hewitt","category-jonah-hauer-king","category-madelyn-cline","category-sarah-michelle-gellar","category-sarah-pidgeon","category-slasher-films","category-tyriq-withers","tag-2025-films","tag-billy-campbell","tag-brandy-norwood","tag-chase-sui-wonders","tag-freddie-prinze-jr","tag-horror-films","tag-jennifer-kaytin-robinson","tag-jennifer-love-hewitt","tag-jonah-hauer-king","tag-madelyn-cline","tag-sarah-michelle-gellar","tag-sarah-pidgeon","tag-slasher-films","tag-tyriq-withers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22098,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094\/revisions\/22098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}