A brand new I Know What You Did Final Summer season is sinking its hooks into followers — and when you ask Us, nostalgia isn't overrated.
The movie, which hit theaters on Friday, July 18, is the newest iteration of the franchise that started with the 1997 movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The slash flick was based mostly on the Lois Duncan novel of the identical identify, and adopted 4 mates as they're hunted by a crazed fisherman after by chance killing a person on the Fourth of July.
Hewitt and Prinze Jr. return for the 2025 film, becoming a member of newcomers Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Hauer-King. The 2 vets — who reprised their roles of Julie James and Ray Bronson for 1998's I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season however have been absent from 2006's I'll All the time Know What You Did Final Summer season — are again to assist the youthful forged as they navigate surviving their very own lethal secret in Southport practically 30 years later.
“They're not simply cameos within the film. They're main characters,” Prinze Jr. completely instructed Us Weekly of Ray and Julie's massive return. “I don't need individuals to suppose they're getting screwed and identical to, ‘Oh, they're solely gonna be in a single scene.' It's not like that. They took nice care of those characters.”
In actual fact, the actor thinks the brand new movie is Ray and Julie's best but. “That first scene [between them], I believe it's the perfect scene [Jennifer] and I've achieved on digicam, interval, in all three motion pictures. And I believe individuals will actually really feel that after they watch.”
To search out out what occurs on the finish of I Know What You Did Final Summer season, hold scrolling. However warning: main spoilers and plot factors revealed beneath:
Who Is the Killer in ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer season?'
The decision is coming from inside the home! OK, possibly we're messing up our slasher metaphors right here, however critically, the killer reveal of this movie is stunning, intricate and certain to be divisive.
Warning: Spoilers Forward!
Whereas Ben Willis was the recognized killer of the primary two installments, he stays useless within the 2025 movie — however has since been changed by a brand new tag staff duo.
The primary killer of the movie is revealed to be Stevie (Pidgeon), certainly one of Ava (Wonders) and Danica's (Cline) mates who they misplaced contact with in highschool. After working into her one evening, she agrees to take a journey with them that fateful 4th of July. Whereas she's initially unaware of who they by chance run over that evening, she finally learns that it's Sam — her boyfriend. The pair met in a assist group after they each obtained clear, and he was on his approach to see her that evening out of worry of relapsing. Though she considers suicide, she in the end decides to kill her former friends as a substitute.
Stevie, after all, isn't working alone. However it's who she's working with that's the true shocker: it's Ray (Prinze Jr.), one of many principal targets of Ben Willis within the ‘90s, who has now grow to be the fisherman himself. Good mates with Stevie's late father, he guarantees to maintain her. When he finds out what occurred to her boyfriend — blended together with his trauma from the primary murders and anger over most people “forgetting” what he and Julie went via — he agrees to assist her take down Stevie's mates.
Ray initially appears to save lots of the day within the movie's closing act — very similar to he did for Julie within the first movie — as he finally ends up “taking pictures” Stevie and saving Ava (Wonders). Afterward, nonetheless, a reduce on his arm reveals to Ava that Ray truly partnered with Stevie.
“You may't underestimate the lengths somebody will go to to avenge what's taken from them,” Ray says. “You by no means transfer on from one thing like this. It simply adjustments you.”
When Julie (Hewitt) comes to save lots of Ava after placing the items collectively herself, Ray reveals that he used the 1997 murders as a playbook. He plans on framing Julie for all the things however is harpooned within the again by Ava.
On the finish of the movie, it's revealed that Ray seemingly didn't betray Stevie in any case, as Danica (Cline) and Ava point out that she remains to be alive. “Ought to we kill her?” Danica asks, to which Ava replies, “Most likely.”
Who Dies in ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer season?'
Quick reply? A number of males! The primary one to go is Sam, the individual revealed to be the sufferer of the core group's deadly automobile accident in the beginning of the movie, which units the next murders in movement. Each of Danica's fiancé's — Teddy (Withers) and Wyatt (Joshua Orpin) — die, as does Teddy's dad, Grant (Billy Campbell). Hauer-King's Milo additionally bites the mud.
Tyler (Gabbriette), the podcaster reporting on the 1997 Southport murders — and Ava's fling — is one other sufferer of the hooked fisherman, together with the city pastor, performed by Austin Nichols.
As for the killers, Ray bites the mud when he's harpooned by Ava whereas attempting to homicide Julie. Stevie, whereas seemingly shot by Ray in a shock betrayal, is revealed to nonetheless be alive within the movie's closing moments.
So then who makes it out alive? Ava, Julie and Danica are the three Closing Women nonetheless standing on the finish (Danica, at first presumed useless, finally washes up on shore alive.)
Is There a Put up-Credit Scene in ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer season?'
In true IKWYDLS franchise style, there's a post-credits scene — and it's one followers of the 1998 sequel will probably be thrilled by.
After Julie, Danica and Ava survive the assaults, viewers meet up with Carla (Brandy) — Julie's school roommate that survived the occasions of I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season — who's watching experiences of the murders on the information along with her husband.
“Individuals are all the time attempting to kill that girl. I hope she's in remedy,” Carla says earlier than there's a knock on the door and Julie seems. After the previous mates embrace, Julie tells Carla she wants her assist earlier than displaying her a photograph with Carla's face X'ed out.
“It's not over,” Julie proclaims, and Carla asks, “Who're we f***ing up this time?”
“I used to be actually hoping you have been going to say that,” Julie replies.
