I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 : Get hooked all over again!

A gang of friends are terrorized by a gruesome stalker with a hook to grind over an incident from all of their recent pasts.

Welcome back fans and friends and odds and ends, to Southport, a seaside town where nothing evil or newsworthy as far as murders go ever happens, the cops are all your friends, and the fourth of July is a totally safe holiday to celebrate. Southport is the kind of place where you can meet with to discuss the more new-age ideals of life and death with your local Church Pastor Judah (Austin Nichols), be assured that the local real estate developer with all the cops in his pocket has your best interests at heart, and still take a murder-spree tour of the slaughter of a group of friends that happened here some 30-odd years ago, so make sure your fishermans slicker is all buttoned up to cover your face and let’s get into this!

So, we meet Ava (Chase Sui Wonders) as she returns to Southport in anticipation of her friend Danica’s (Madelyn Cline) engagement party to Teddy Winters (Tyriq Withers). Already weirded out that her old high school best friends are about to get married, Ava obsesses over what to wear, worries about seeing an old flame Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), and is generally a charming bumble of nerves even after the party is over. Danica and Teddy insist Ava and Milo join them all to go out to an unsafe area to watch the 4th of July fireworks just like they used to, Reapers Curve has the best view after all, and after awkwardly running into Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon), another of their former high school crew they kind of dropped like a hot rock when she got into druuuuugs following issues with her family, Stevie gets invited to go out with them, just like old times. The old crew is all back together like nothing has changed, though everything is about to.

Alcohol and weed is being passed around and yes nepo-baby Teddy is an idiotic show-off for playing “chicken” with cars on this road, but none of that is a good enough excuse when a Dodge truck swerves to avoid Teddy and despite all their horrified efforts to stop it, goes through the railing and down over the side, killing the driver. Each pal has their own gut reaction to what just happened, but its only an entirely aghast Ava that demands they go down the high embankment and try to help the driver. Everyone else is only concerned with covering their own asses for various reasons, but its Teddy with his wealthy and connected beyond all reason father Grant Spencer (Billy Campbell) who gets it all hushed up and covered up and dealt with. And we’re left with our terrorized gang of friends who made a pact to never, ever speak of the secret they all now share.

Now, it’s a year later and Ava is reluctantly returning to Southport, with only a brief interlude of some kinky sex with a friendly horror podcaster she met on the plane, singer Gabriette as Tyler Trevino, to attend yet another of Danica’s engagement parties, but this time to someone entirely different, apparent nice-guy Wyatt (Joshua Orpin). And the opening of engagement gifts is the

perfect place and time to start the opening gambit of the end game, with an unsigned note that says, inevitably, I know what you did last summer!

So apparently in the last year since Ava hasn’t been around to be the beloved best friend, Stevie has latched onto the bubble-headed Danica, despite still having her job at a tourist bar, where it turns out Stevie works for a much-older and rather bitter Ray (Freddie Prinz Jr.). And as the hook and the fishermans slicker start making murderous appearances and the bodies begin to pile up, including sadly the podcaster Tyler who was obsessed with the hushed-up murders back in ‘97 of more or less the exact same MO, our would-be Final Girl Ava thinks to contact the OG Final Girl who’s also still alive and working as a college professor, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt).

The film is full of self-aware snark, mainly having to do with nostalgia and how it has a tendency to ruin the lives of the ones actually involved in such original events. It’s pretty clear the filmmakers had to work their brains overtime to figure out a way to shoehorn in a Sarah Michelle Gellar as Croaker Queen Helen Shivers cameo into the movie, but the moment actually works out pretty well and practically winks at the audience in its melting cheekiness. And a happily

still-sassy OG cameo awaits movie-goers with enough attention span left over to wait around til after the main closing credits.

Most of us know and remember the OG I Know What You Did Last Summer films, the first one that kind of reignited the whole Teen-Slasher Horror trope for a newer generation, or at least paved the way for the original Scream film to do that. The sequel movie, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, didn’t do anywhere near as well as the first, despite having three principal actors from the first film reprising their roles for the sequel, and a third movie, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer was a straight-to-video release and barely even connected to the franchise, featuring all-new characters and a different setting entirely. The point is, these movies were basically the flashpoints for a whole lot of things, not the least of which are amazing film careers for Freddie Prinz Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar and several others, but one doesn’t absolutely have to have seen the original I Know What You Did Last Summer films in order to appreciate this new one. It would help if you had though, to fully appreciate all the snark, nostalgia, cameos and callbacks in this new film!

Get hooked into the old that claws the way for the new in I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025, in theaters now!