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Prinze Jr. and Hewitt Reunite for Intensely Gory 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' Sequel

The final marketing push highlights the film’s amplified brutality with methodical kills that reflect modern slasher trends

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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