1 Yr After Scream, This Horror Legend Created One other Iconic Slasher Masterpiece (& It Hits Netflix Quickly)

I Know What You Did Final Summer season, penned by horror legend Kevin Williamson, will quickly have a brand new streaming house. The movie might be out there on Netflix from Jan. 1, 2025.

Williamson’s movie debut started in 1996 with the discharge of Scream, and I Know What You Did Final Summer season adopted one 12 months later. The movie stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Philippe and Freddie Prinze Jr., 4 teenage associates who’re stalked by a killer after they attempt to cowl up the occasions of a automobile accident that supposedly killed a person. I Know What You Did Final Summer season was launched throughout 1997’s Halloween season, grossing over $125 million towards its funds of $17 million and sustaining the highest spot on the U.S. field workplace for 3 consecutive weeks.

The success of I Know What You Did Final Summer season launched a franchise, with I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season releasing in 1998 and I will All the time Know What You Did Final Summer season following in 2006. Williamson was not concerned with any of the sequels. A presently untitled fourth movie within the franchise is ready for launch in 2025, with Hewitt and Prinze Jr. confirmed to be part of the forged earlier this 12 months.

Like many horror movies, I Know What You Did Final Summer season obtained blended critiques from critics. The movie holds a 46% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics’ consensus for the movie calling it a “by-the-numbers slasher that arrived a decade too late”. Regardless, the movie has grow to be successful with followers of the slasher style, and its legacy has seen it referenced many occasions in popular culture. I Know What You Did Final Summer season was spoofed at size in 2000’s Scary Film, an episode of Dawson’s Creek, and in The Simpsons‘ “Treehouse of Horror X.”

Williamson Set to Direct New Scream Movie

Considered one of Williamson’s defining horror works is the Scream franchise, and the screenwriter has performed an element within the launch of all six movies presently launched. A presently untitled seventh movie is in improvement, with Williamson set to direct. The way forward for the Scream franchise has been sophisticated by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike and Writers Guild of America strike, with Melissa Barrera later being fired from the movie for social media posts in assist of Palestine. After Barrera’s exit from the franchise, it was introduced that the reboot’s different main star, Jenna Ortega, wouldn’t be returning resulting from scheduling conflicts with the hit Netflix sequence Wednesday.

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Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that Neve Campbell would return for Scream 7 as Sydney Prescott, with Courteney Cox additionally in talks to return as Gale Weathers. In October, Paramount introduced that the seventh Scream movie could be launched on Feb. 27, 2026. Different returning forged members and plot particulars haven’t been revealed at the moment.

I Know What You Did Final Summer season hits Netflix on Jan. 1, 2025.

Supply: Netflix

Director

Jim Gillespie

Launch Date

October 17, 1997

Forged

Ryan Phillippe
, Freddie Prinze Jr.
, Muse Watson
, Sarah Michelle Gellar
, Jennifer Love Hewitt

Writers

Kevin Williamson

Runtime

101 minutes

Sequel(s)

I will All the time Know What You Did Final Summer season
, I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season

Finances

$17 million

Studio(s)

Amazon Studios

Distributor(s)

Columbia Photos

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