‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ film assessment: Return to Southport fails to reel you in

The most effective slasher movies provide a selected gory consolation, with the chase, deaths and a sort of twisted logic. I Know What You Did Final Summer time (1997) primarily based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 younger grownup novel was immense enjoyable and spawned two sequels, I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time (1998) and I’ll At all times Know What You Did Final Summer time (2006), a sequence in 2021 and numerous headline choices to sub-editors.

The most recent reboot after the present was cancelled, is a sequel to I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time and options the 2 survivors of the 1997 Southport bloodbath, Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.).

Southport has a brand new bunch of terrorised buddies — Danica (Madelyn Cline), Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), Teddy (Tyriq Withers) and Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon).

After Danica and Teddy’s engagement occasion, the 5 buddies go for a drive on the winding cliff street the place a horrible accident happens. Stevie, who had an issue with substance abuse, simply acquired cleaned up and was working at Ray’s bar when she joined the chums on the fateful cliff street drive. The 5 buddies resolve to maintain quiet about their involvement and go their separate methods.

A 12 months later, Ava returns to Southport for Danica’s bridal bathe. The occasions of the earlier 12 months naturally have affected the chums. Teddy, whose father, Grant, (Billy Campbell) a rich actual property mogul who “scrubbed the web” of all mentions of the sooner killings, spirals uncontrolled prompting Danica to interrupt their engagement. Danica is now engaged to candy Wyatt (Joshua Orpin).

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On her flight to Southport, Ava meets Tyler (Gabbriette Bechtel) who hosts a real crime podcast known as Reside, Snigger, Slaughter (one wonders how slaughter is a laughing matter) and is coming to North Carolina to observe up on the 1997 Southport killings.

Quickly sufficient Danica will get an nameless observe saying, sure, “I Know What You Did Final Summer time,” and all of it begins once more — the hook, slicker, hat, blood and our bodies. The kills are usually not notably imaginative, the chases are on the fallacious aspect of thrilling and the ultimate reveal may have your eyes roll proper out of their sockets.

Whereas it was good to see Prinze Jr. and Hewitt reprise their roles, I Know What You Did Final Summer time gives nothing new by the use of plot, character or dialogue. The younger forged act for all they’re price and the hassle exhibits. The film supplies unintentional laughs with recollections of Keenen Ivory Wayans’ Scary Film (2000). Until, one can provide you with radically new twists to the slasher components, it’s most likely time to put the hooks and ghostface to relaxation. Sigh.

I Know What You Did Final Summer time is at the moment working in theatres