US EditionFreddie Prinze Jr. Says Modern Audiences Would Laugh at Original 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'
JUL 9 – Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles in the July 18, 2025 horror sequel blending legacy characters with new ones to continue the story of a deadly car accident and revenge.
- The slasher sequel 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' is set to release on July 18, featuring a new group of Southport locals pursued by a mysterious killer after a deadly car accident.
- Madelyn Cline expressed excitement about the project, stating they aimed to 'compliment the original and bring back what made the original so good' while providing a modern twist.
- Freddie Prinze Jr. remarked that the horror genre evolves quickly and joked that modern audiences might find the original film to be 'quaint.'
- He also noted that he and Jennifer Love Hewitt delivered their best work together on this project, saying, 'It's fun to hear Prinze Jr. gush about the new film, even if that is his job right now.
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Scream (1996), Candyman, the domain of the mind (1992), or The Ring (1998) are just some of the films that shook millions of viewers in the cinemas of the 1990s, jumping popcorn in the air and causing the drowned — not always — screams of the scariest. To them was added another slasher classic [subgenre in which there is usually one or more masked serial killers who kill with a white gun], I know what you did last summer (1997).
Freddie Prinze Jr. says modern audiences would laugh at original 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'
The actor said every generation of horror outscares the next.Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Freddie Prinze Jr. in 1997's 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'I Know What You Did Last Summer is one of the most iconic horror movies from the '90s, but star Freddie Prinze Jr. admitted that the film might be quaint to modern fans of the genre.Speaking to Fandango, Prinze Jr. said that the horror genre changes more rapidly because every gen…
Freddy Prinze Jr. Says New ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Is His ‘Best’ Yet
Legacy sequels already start on their back foot. They have to justify their existence (or at least they should). There has to be a case made why we are checking back in with these characters after so many years. What... Read more...
In the 1990s two films were released that caused a lot of fear before the whole audience, 'I know what they did last summer' and 'I still know what they did last summer'. In both, a group of friends accidentally killed a man and then were stalked by a hooded killer who killed his victims with a hook. Twenty years later, we again have a new tape from this franchise that connects directly with the last one that premiered in 1998.
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