Overview

• The 2025 sequel premiered in Los Angeles on July 14, earning overwhelmingly positive early reactions that hailed it as a standout legacy sequel.
• Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprise their roles as Julie and Ray, mentoring a new ensemble led by Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King and others.
• Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson co-wrote the screenplay with Sam Lansky and secured the original leads with an initial vision pitch before the script was complete.
• Final edits removed an opening sequence featuring Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez after Robinson decided it didn’t fit the film’s tone.
• Blending ’90s nostalgia with modern horror intensity, the film is set to open in U.S. theaters on July 18 under Columbia Pictures.