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I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 Movie Review Trailer Poster

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's reboot is a no-nonsense horror film, with a touch of "Scream," that knows what was happening in the multiplexes of the last century. By the time "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was released in 1997, the horror film genre was already 25 years old, and everything possible had already been done. It had emerged, from disorganized nightmares like "The Last House on the Left" (1972), from the raw, crude compost of the early 1970s drive-in and movie theater world. It had shocked, scared, and scandalized people. It had reached a disturbing level of Hitchcockian artistry in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974).  Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Writers: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Sam Lansky, Leah McKendrick Stars: Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King It was popularized with "Halloween" (1978), and then boringly formulated with "Friday the 13th" and its sequels. It had been given a distur...