I Know What You Did Last Summer film overview: Return to Southport fails to reel you in

The greatest slasher movies supply a specific gory consolation, with the chase, deaths and a sort of twisted logic. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) based mostly on Lois Duncan’s 1973 younger grownup novel was immense enjoyable and spawned two sequels, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006), a collection in 2021 and numerous headline choices to sub-editors.

The newest reboot after the present was cancelled, is a sequel to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and options the 2 survivors of the 1997 Southport bloodbath, Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.).

Southport has a brand new bunch of terrorised associates — Danica (Madelyn Cline), Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), Teddy (Tyriq Withers) and Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon).

After Danica and Teddy’s engagement occasion, the 5 associates go for a drive on the winding cliff highway the place a horrible accident happens. Stevie, who had an issue with substance abuse, simply received cleaned up and was working at Ray’s bar when she joined the buddies on the fateful cliff highway drive. The 5 associates resolve to maintain quiet about their involvement and go their separate methods.

A yr later, Ava returns to Southport for Danica’s bridal bathe. The occasions of the earlier yr naturally have affected the buddies. Teddy, whose father, Grant, (Billy Campbell) a rich actual property mogul who “scrubbed the web” of all mentions of the sooner killings, spirals uncontrolled prompting Danica to interrupt their engagement. Danica is now engaged to candy Wyatt (Joshua Orpin).

On her flight to Southport, Ava meets Tyler (Gabbriette Bechtel) who hosts a real crime podcast referred to as Live, Laugh, Slaughter (one wonders how slaughter is a laughing matter) and is coming to North Carolina to comply with up on the 1997 Southport killings.

Soon sufficient Danica will get an nameless notice saying, sure, “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and all of it begins once more — the hook, slicker, hat, blood and our bodies. The kills are usually not significantly imaginative, the chases are on the improper aspect of thrilling and the ultimate reveal can have your eyes roll proper out of their sockets.

While it was good to see Prinze Jr. and Hewitt reprise their roles, I Know What You Did Last Summer presents nothing new by means of plot, character or dialogue. The younger forged act for all they’re value and the hassle exhibits. The film gives unintentional laughs with reminiscences of Keenen Ivory Wayans’ Scary Movie (2000). Unless, one can provide you with radically new twists to the slasher formulation, it’s most likely time to put the hooks and ghostface to relaxation. Sigh.

I Know What You Did Last Summer is at the moment working in theatres