‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Sequel Trailer Brings Horror Franchise Back to Life (2025)

The first trailer for I Know What You Did Last Summer has quite a hook.

Sony released the trailer online Tuesday after debuting the footage last month at CinemaCon. Hitting theaters July 18, director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson‘s sequel revives the horror franchise that launched with the original 1997 movie of the same name.

I Know What You Did Last Summer stars Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King and Chase Sui Wonders, with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprising their roles from the first feature and its 1998 follow-up.

The new film centers on a group of five friends facing dangerous consequences after making a pact to stay silent about their involvement in a tragic car accident. The aftermath leads them to connect with two survivors of the Southport Massacre from 1997.

“This isn’t the first time there’s been violence like this in Southport,” Prinze says in the trailer.

In a later moment, Hewitt appears to have a hunch as to why the residents are getting targeted. “I just have one question,” she says pointedly. “What did you do last summer?”

Robinson helmed the project from a screenplay she co-wrote with Sam Lansky following an initial script from Leah McKendrick. Neal Moritz, who was a producer on the original film, is back for the new one.

The initialI Know What You Did Last Summerhit theaters Oct. 17, 1997. The cast included Hewitt, Prinze, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe and focused on a friend group stalked by a villain with a hook after they tried to cover up hitting him with their car. That movie was written byScreamscribe Kevin Williamson and based on the 1973 novel of the same name from author Lois Duncan.

Brandy, who co-starred in the first two films, told The Hollywood Reporter last year that she had yet to hear from the new movie’s team but would love to be involved.

“I need them to give me a call because I survived in that movie!” Brandy said at the time. “I came out in the end, bloodied up, ready to go.”