VOD: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) (dir: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, 2025)

"Now it feels like 1997 all over again. Isn't that nostalgic?"
"Nostalgia's over-rated."

This glossy but hollow legacy revisit to 1997's hit thriller cleaves more towards a thousand modern-day teen streaming shows than the more overtly horror-inflected original, with another oilskinned and behooked killer out for vengeance on a group of well-heeled friends one year after they inadvertently cause a fatal cliff road accident that is remarkably similar to the tragedy that happened twenty-five years previously.  Hitting many familiar beats and visual set-ups from the original, this film perhaps lacks the frisson of 1997's red-hot pop zeitgeist cast with its lesser and more workmanlike pretty-but-low-impact gang (with perhaps Tyriq Withers giving the standout spirited performance as spiralling alcoholic Teddy) and the eye-rolling contemporary introduction of a podcaster to tie the events to the wave of killings nearly three decades previously, written and made by a generation brought up on the Scream movies.  Very-well-preserved legacy cast survivors turn up to kick off act two and are integrated well into the remaining storyline.  It has some well-executed kills, and the film looks good but generally lacks spark and energy, although it is clearly a notch above Amazon's weak 2021 TV series.   Wait for the mid-end-credits scene for a bonus legacy surprise and optimistic further-sequel-baiting.