4 reasons to watch the bonkers slasher ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ (and one reason you should not)
I Know What You Did Last Summer tried to answer when it was released in October 1997. The original movie–which found Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Ryan Phillippe running for their lives against said murderous fisherman–was a commercial success, grossing more than $125 million at the box office.
The sequel, meanwhile, was another story. Released 25 years ago, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (aka ISKWYDLS, one of the most obnoxious abbreviation to type out ever) found Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr.’s characters skipping town to a posh resort–only to discover murder sure seems to find a way to follow them wherever they go!The sequel was an absolute bomb, making just shy of $40 million at the box office, and essentially killed the franchise… something the first movie’s director agrees upon. “I thought it wasn’t the right story,” OG I Know What You Did Last Summer‘s director, Jim Gillespie, said in 2017 interview about the follow-up film. “I didn’t like the premise.
It kind of killed the franchise a little bit. They had a chance to do something a bit different and for me it didn’t work.“A movie so bad it killed an entire… killer franchise (see what we did there)?
Obviously, we had to re-watch this travesty! And so, since it’s spooky season, we did.On the helm of its 25th anniversary, check out all the reasons you should watch I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and the one reason you absolutely should not… Kevin Williamson, the openly gay creator and writer of the Scream franchise, also wrote the first I Know What You Did Last Summer movie, loosely based on author Lois Duncan’s book of the same name.In fact, production of the first IKWYDLS was fast-tracked following the massive success of Scream.
