‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ review: A mangled mess, in more ways than one

The show suffers from all-round unlikeable characters that one is unable to care for, and a weak central mystery

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), following a year after Scream, was largely responsible for the revival of the slasher film genre. Written by Kevin Williamson, who also wrote Scream, the film was an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s eponymous 1973 book. Duncan, incidentally, was quite horrified at her novel being turned into a slasher film.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer tells the story of four teenagers played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., who hide their involvement in a hit-and-run fatality, only to have a killer stalk them a year later.