Overview

• Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt return as Ray Bronson and Julie James, calling their new scenes the strongest work of their franchise careers
• Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson says the sequel’s horror elements are “ratcheted up to a hundred,” with more brutal, methodical kills than the original
• The story follows a group of twenty-somethings stalked by a vengeful killer a year after a deadly car accident in Southport, North Carolina
• Julie James has become a trauma professor who, alongside Ray, mentors the younger survivors through the renewed Southport massacre
• The sequel opens in theaters on July 18, 2025, following a marketing campaign that has emphasized its darker tone and the leads’ on-screen rapport