{"id":12544,"date":"2025-07-15T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2025-07-15T01:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:02:31","slug":"i-still-know-what-you-did-last-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/07\/15\/i-still-know-what-you-did-last-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"I Still Know What You Did Last Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I Still Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> (1998)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Columbia\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 100 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (intense terror violence and gore, strong language, some drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Danny Cannon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Trey Callaway\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Frizzell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Vernon Layton\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 13, 1998 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, Muse Watson, Bill Cobbs, Matthew Settle, Jeffrey Combs, Jennifer Esposito, John Hawkes, Benjamin Brown, Ellerine Harding, Jack Black.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $40M (US)\/$84M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *<\/p>\n

\u00a0The inferior sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> has many problems, but one of its biggest is in the title itself. Look at it closely. What\u2019s wrong with it? Anybody with a measurable IQ can see it, but I\u2019ll go ahead and point it out for the benefit of others. It\u2019s set a year after the events I Know What You Did Last Summer which centered on an incident that occurred the previous summer. Therefore, shouldn\u2019t it be called I Still Know What You Did Two Summers Ago? Better yet, why not just call it I Still Know What You Did? Even better, simply I Still Know, the words Julie saw written on the shower door in the final scene of the first movie. All of this is logical, but the makers of the sequel appear to have an aversion to logic so here we are.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Intelligence is another one of the film\u2019s issues. That is to say, it assumes everybody watching is a complete idiot. Point in case, the plot is predicated on a character winning a radio contest by correctly answering a question about the capital of Brazil. What is it? The character replies Rio and wins the big prize, an all-expenses-paid vacation to the Bahamas. What\u2019s wrong here? The capital of Brazil is NOT Rio, it\u2019s Brasilia. Any 5th<\/sup> grader can tell you that. A college student should know this as should most people watching (theoretically). In any event, it\u2019s a big tip-off for the audience. Altogether now, IT\u2019S A TRAP! I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m insulted.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, rant over. It\u2019s time to get down to the real business at hand. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> sucks. It\u2019s a lame sequel to a fairly effective horror-thriller that did decent business the previous year. Hence, that\u2019s why there\u2019s a sequel. In it, Julie (Hewitt, Party of Five) is still dealing with the events of the previous two summers. She still has nightmares about the killer and the deaths of her friends. Her roommate Karla (R&B singer Brandy) tries to be supportive, but she doesn\u2019t know the whole story. Ray (Prinze, She\u2019s All That) is still in the picture, but he\u2019s upset that Julie cancelled her plans to come home for July 4 at the last minute. She just can\u2019t deal with it, not yet.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Karla is the one who wins the Bahamas trip. She invites Julie to join her along with her boyfriend Tyrell (Phifer, Clockers) and Will (Settle, Band of Brothers), a nice classmate who has a crush on Julie. They head to the island of Tower where they learn they\u2019ve arrived just in time for off-season. This means they\u2019re the only guests at the resort. A big storm is approach. There\u2019s no way off the island and there are no phones. Basically, they\u2019re stuck there. Guess who else is there? Let the next wave of killings commence.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Danny Cannon (Judge Dredd), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> has the look and feel of a sequel that was rushed into production after the original film became an unexpected success. Everything about it is lazy from the plot to the pacing. Whereas the first one kept you guessing the identity of the killer, it\u2019s not much a challenge here. In fact, it\u2019s easy. Just pick out the character that appears to serve the plot the least. That\u2019s your guy! The screenplay by Trey Callaway offers no surprises. Anything that can be considered a twist can be seen coming from a mile off. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> is the very definition of predictable. I even called it regarding a character\u2019s apparent demise. They wouldn\u2019t dare kill this particular person off. Fans would be too outraged.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hewitt is the only one attempting a performance here and while she\u2019s not terrible, it\u2019s clear she\u2019s only in it to satisfy a contractual obligation. The same goes for Prinze who, lucky for him, doesn\u2019t get a lot of screen time. Essentially, he\u2019s the hero that rides in to save the day in the nick of time. This after an attack by the killer puts him in the hospital in serious condition. He just gets up and leaves to rescue Julie. Is it the power of love or something? Phifer manages to get off one good line- \u201cAll I know is that this is the worst vacation of my life. I’m tired, I’m hungry, I’m fucking horny and I ain’t seen one GD psycho killer.\u201d Let\u2019s just say his timing is impeccable. Settle is a non-presence. He\u2019s only in it because he\u2019s handsome and would look good on the poster if he was a big enough star. The rest of the cast, which includes Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) as the rude hotel manager, are basically lambs lined up for the slaughter. An uncredited Jack Black (School of Rock) playing a dreadlocked, ganja-smoking hotel employee, takes top honors as the most obnoxious character of the whole lot. I almost cheered when his ticket got punched.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There aren\u2019t any memorable killings nor is there any significant gore. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> is as run of the mill as slasher movies get. The cinematography by Vernon Layton is supposed to atmospheric, but it\u2019s muddy instead. Sometimes it\u2019s too dark to see what\u2019s happening. It doesn\u2019t help that most of it takes place during a storm.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I Still Know What You Did Last Summer<\/strong> commits the worst sin a horror movie can. It\u2019s boring. It\u2019s also stupid and pointless. The only thing that doesn\u2019t suck is Hewitt and she\u2019s not even all that invested in it. It looks like she\u2019d rather be anywhere else than this pitiful excuse for a horror flick. I know exactly how she feels. I\u2019m sure we all do.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Columbia\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 100 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (intense terror violence and gore, strong language, some drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Danny Cannon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Trey Callaway\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Frizzell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Vernon Layton\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 13, 1998 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, Muse Watson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/I-Still-Know-What-You-Did-L.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12556,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/12556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}