‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Sequel Drops Chilling Trailer — New Victims, Old Faces, and Surprises for Longtime Fans
The classic ‘90s horror flick I Know What You Did Last Summer is making its big return — and this time, it’s bringing some familiar faces and a whole new group of potential victims. The upcoming sequel is heading to theaters on July 18, 2025, and yes, both Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. are officially back.
A new trailer has been released ahead of the movie’s premiere, and fans can definitely expect a new spin on the old classic.
The story? It feels a lot like the one horror fans already know: a group of five friends is involved in a car crash. Instead of coming clean, they cover it up. One year later, a killer starts hunting them down, and this killer isn’t quiet about knowing exactly what they did.
Hewitt, who played Julie James in the original, admitted that stepping back into her old role after more than two decades wasn’t easy. In an interview with People, she said, “I’ll be super honest, I had total anxiety for 48 hours before [filming] because I was like, ‘Can I do this? Am I going to pull this off?’ It’s a lot of pressure.”
She also described working on the new film as feeling like reuniting with old classmates: “It felt like a high school reunion. It felt like that moment where you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have butterflies in my stomach and my heart is beating really fast because I have not seen this person in 150 years and now we’re back, here we are.’”
This movie isn’t a reboot or a remake. It’s a direct continuation, something that’s been in the works for a long time. Back in 2014, Sony had plans to reboot the franchise with Mike Flanagan as writer, but that version never happened. Now, with Do Revenge director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson behind the camera, the slasher franchise is going a different route.
Robinson has made it clear that this movie is way more intense than the one from the ‘90s. She told People the violence is turned “up to a hundred” and that it’s “much more brutal” than fans might expect.
The original I Know What You Did Last Summer hit theaters in 1997 and was a box office success, pulling in $125 million on a $17 million budget. Its sequel came a year later, followed by a direct-to-video third film in 2006. More recently, the story was turned into a TV series in 2021, but it was canceled after just one season.
Now, the franchise is back where it started, on the big screen, and fans of the original may finally get the reunion they’ve been waiting for.
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