In the ‘90s, Scream led to a swath of teen ensemble horror franchises like Final Destination and I Know What You Did Last Summer. It’s now officially back into the game with last year’s hit movie and another film coming soon. So, it is not surprising that the franchise is inspiring others to dust off their dormant universes and return back for more gore. Deadline reports that an I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel will release on July 18, 2025.

And, we now know that Freddie Prinze, Jr. is officially returning for the I Still Know What You Did Last Summer sequel and reprising his role as Ray Bronson. The jury is still out for Jennifer Love Hewitt but she is expected to return… and Brandy also wants in on this movie.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Brandy basically says “I wanna be down” with the upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel (more of a reboot, maybe?) action. We do love us come Karla Wilson, who survived the events of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

“I need them to give me a call because I survived in that movie!” Brandy affirmed. “I came out in the end, bloodied up, ready to go. I did not die in that film… Jennifer, Freddie, hit me up.”

We don’t know if Brandy will be a part of it or not. But we do know that Camila Mendes of Riverdale fame won’t be in the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot. According to Deadline, she’s going to be very busy with her new role as Teela in Masters of the Universe and the production dates between the two projects do not work.

We will have to wait and see what this next terrible summer includes. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Hauer-King are all in talks to star in the movie. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is set to direct this sequel.

If the original stars do come back, the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel will likely follow a format similar to what we saw in Scream (2022). Legacy characters like Julie James (I guess) and Ray Bronson will return to help newer people get through a horrific antagonist is a win for longtime fans and new ones, too. It would be interesting, though, considering that the last time we saw these I Know What You Did Last Summer characters, it seemed that the hooked killer was about to murder them. Of course, this could have simply been Julie’s bad dream.

Thankfully, a canceled fourth film with their confirmed deaths didn’t take place. If both Julie James and Ray Bronson come back for an I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel, it will be interesting to see if they are still together and what their lives are like decades later.

Originally published on February 7, 2023.

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In the post-Scream days in the late-’90s, Hollywood seemed dead set (ha) on bringing back slasher movies in a big way. From Valentine to Urban Legend, the teen slasher was a money maker once again. Of the not-Scream movies, the movie with the highest profile was I Know What You Did Last Summer, which came out only a year after the first Scream. Largely due to another screenplay from Kevin Williamson, IKWYDLS (as nobody calls it), was another slick horror hit. Now the title that murders any kind of SEO is back in the form of a series on Amazon Prime Video. Check out the first trailer.

As with the movie, this I Know What You Did Last Summer is based on a 1973 novel by Lois Duncan. Probably more literary than you expected, eh? The series’ executive producer and writer is Sara Goodman, who has a good pedigree for both teen angst and horror; she previously wrote and produced on both Gossip Girl and Preacher.

The official synopsis is as follows:

One year after the fatal car accident that haunted their graduation night, a group of teenagers find themselves bound together by a dark secret and stalked by a brutal killer. As they try to piece together who’s after them, they reveal the dark side of their seemingly perfect town—and themselves. Everyone is hiding something, and uncovering the wrong secret could be deadly.

The first four episodes of the series will drop on Prime Video October 15. New episodes will come out every Friday until the finale on November 12. That, by my count, is eight episodes, meaning eight hours of kids making increasingly bad decisions to cover up their initial very bad decision, while a killer hunts them all down. Delightful.

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Along with Goodman, producers on the series are the original movie’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty, Erik Feig, Peter Guber, Atomic Monster’s James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett, Craig William Macneill, and Shay Hatten. The series stars Madison Iseman, Bill Heck, Brianne Tju, Ezekiel Goodman, Ashley Moore, Sebastian Amoruso, Fiona Rene, Cassie Beck, and Brooke Bloom.

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This year’s San Diego Comic-Con, much like last year’s, will be an all-digital affair. Although the threat of COVID-19 has been minimized since the summer of 2020, the threat of infection is hardly eradicated. Thus, Comic-Con International is playing it safe and containing its pop culture celebration to the web. It’d be silly to pretend that this doesn’t take some of the fun out of the equation. But Comic-Con@Home ‘21 still boasts a few things that may be worth looking forward to. On Thursday morning, Amazon Prime Video and IMDb TV announced which titles they’ll bring to the virtual event later this month. Topping the list are The Wheel of Time and the final Neon Genesis Evangelion movie.

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On July 23, the streaming platforms under the Amazon umbrella will courier their upcoming titles to Comic-Con@Home. Television personality Tim Kash will host a continuous panel featuring the casts and producers of the following projects: The Wheel of Time; I Know What You Did Last Summer; Leverage: Redemption; EVANGELION: 3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME; and S.O.Z. Soldiers or Zombies. The panel will broadcast via the Comic-Con International YouTube Channel at 11 AM PT that morning.

As of yet, Amazon has not unveiled a comprehensive list of talent for any panels. However, we know that the following names will be on hand for the virtual Con: Rafe Judkins, showrunner for The Wheel of Time; Hideaki Anno, chief director on the Neon Genesis Evangelion series and the EVANGELION:3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME film; Sara Goodman, I Know What You Did Last Summer series producer; Noah Wyle and Beth Riesgraf, the stars of Leverage: Redemption; and Nico Entel, producer for S.O.Z. Soldiers or Zombies.

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As for when we’ll get to see many of these projects, that’s another question. The first batch of Leverage: Redemption episodes will hit IMDB TV on July 9; and EVANGELION: 3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME will hit Amazon Prime on August 13. As for The Wheel of Time and I Know What You Did Last Summer, we’re hoping to get an eyeful sometime in 2021. Perhaps the panel will have more details on that!

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With summer winding down, it’s hard not to reflect on what this particular year wasn’t. While fall is the season most synonymous with horror movies, it turns out that the longest, warmest, brightest months of the year are also notorious for being, well, notorious. Something in the summer air just brings out the slashers and giant monsters.

From murder-fish to cannibals to perpetually blood-soaked summer camps, here are some of the most horrible summers given to us by horror movies.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Columbia Pictures

A covered-up hit-and-run leads to threatening notes, suspicions, dead bodies, and somehow making the Gorton’s fisherman terrifying. Plus, I Know What You Did Last Summer easily boasts the prettiest cast to be methodically hunted and slasher-ed to death on this list.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Bryanston Distributing Company

“For them, an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare …”

Let’s be honest, the 1970s were not a great time for road trips. And that’s before you factor in skin-wearing, chainsaw-wielding madmen just trying to do right by their creepy, people-eating families. Visceral, claustrophobic, and depraved, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre changed the horror-movie game irrevocably.

The Blob

Paramount Pictures

Jell-O that eats your bones may not seem like the scariest thing in the world, but Steve McQueen might argue otherwise. Released in 1958 as a drive-in teensploitation B-movie, The Blob proved to be a surprise hit then and is still a resilient cult favorite even now. An ‘80s remake upped the horror factor considerably. Everything from Dungeons & Dragons’ gelatinous cube, to James Gunn’s Slither, to Steve McQueen’s career clearly owes the original Blob a debt.

Midsommar

A24

Swedish folk festivals probably aren’t anyone’s first choice of setting for a deeply unsettling horror movie, but, my goodness, would you be wrong. A surprise hit in 2019, Midsommar won critical acclaim, as well as applause from the likes of Nicolas Cage and Jordan Peele—two guys who know a thing or two about horror films.

Piranha

New World Pictures

Directed by Gremlins’ Joe Dante, produced by B-movie king Roger Corman, and made specifically to capitalize on the success of Jaws the year before, Piranha is exactly what you’d expect from that pedigree. And the world is better for it. The flick gets bonus points for threatening a summer camp inside of their killer animal movie.

Universal Studios actually considered filing an injunction to keep Piranha from being released, fearing it was too similar to both Jaws and Jaws 2. However, Steven Spielberg publicly endorsed the movie so Universal dropped the lawsuit.

Sleepaway Camp

United Film Distribution Company

Often overshadowed by the Friday the 13th franchise, Sleepaway Camp has become a cult hit. It has a franchise history at least as long as other, better-remembered series. And while your mileage on the “shocking” (and problematic) twist ending may vary, the movie’s commitment to increasingly creative kills certainly paved the way for later slasher films.

Plus, fun fact: Bruce Springsteen’s sister played the lead in the sequels.

Them!

Warner Bros

Your backyard picnic might have been ruined by ants, but at least they weren’t giant, atomic, and destroying the entire Southwest. While Them! might be best remembered as sci-fi schlock, its horror pedigree is strong. The movie opens with the chilling image of a catatonic little girl stumbling through the desert. It later includes an ant feasting on a human ribcage. Never mind that it was Warner Bros’ highest-grossing film for 1954 and even earned an Academy Award nomination for special effects. Not bad for a big-bug B-movie.

Jaws

Universal

There’s nothing like continued shark attacks to sour the summer mood. While always a good idea for a rewatch, 1975’s Jaws shouldn’t be at all relevant right now. But, thanks to certain governors’ continued devotion to keeping the bars and beaches open, here we are. Honestly, we wouldn’t have guessed there was anyone left on the planet who hadn’t seen the film and its portrait of a cravenly misguided mayor at least once by now.

Friday the 13th

Paramount Pictures

What Jaws did for sharks and open water, Friday the 13th did for summer camps and horny teenagers—and, later, hockey masks. A blatant cash-grab meant to follow in the bloodied footsteps of Halloween, the film instead single-handedly invented the slasher summer camp trope, and gave us one of the best jump-scares in the history of cinema. Even if the franchise did eventually swap out the suspense for gore and ditch Camp Crystal Lake for, uh, outer space. Talk about scary.

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