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Digital Trends
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
If you liked I Know What You Did Last Summer, then watch these 5 movies
More than 25 years after a group of teens first did something last summer, I Know What You Did Last Summer is back with a legacy sequel. It's far from the first of these revived horror franchises from the 1990s, but if you liked the slasher vibes of this new installment, we know exactly where you should go next. These movies all share something in common with the new I Know What You Did Last Summer. Whether they're legendary horror movies or something a little bit newer, here are five similar movies you should check out: Scream (2022) Perhaps the movie most similar to I Know What You Did Last Summer, this new Scream is a legacy sequel that knows what to do. It follows a new cast of young characters who are being hunted down by a killer wearing a Ghostface mask. The teens then seek help from the now-adults who beat Ghostface the first time. Recommended Videos In addition to featuring a younger generation of stars, Scream is clever, funny, and knows its role as the fifth film in a franchise that has existed for 25 years. You couldn't ask for much more from a slasher. You can watch Scream on Hulu. Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Another legacy sequel that knows exactly what it's doing, Bloodlines might actually be the best movie in the Final Destination franchise. Like all of these movies, it is constructed around the notion that death is coming for a specific group of people, and often in remarkably elaborate ways. Surprisingly, though, Bloodlines manages to find a new way into this particular conceit, one that suggests that we sometimes only inherit the worst things from the generations who came before us. You can rent Final Destination Bloodlines on Amazon Prime Video. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) One of the foundational slasher movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is maybe the scariest horror film ever made. The film follows a group of young people traveling across the country in a van who come across a group of cannibals who attack them with chainsaws in rural Texas. The movie's brilliance is that its villains are mostly faceless and nameless. They just exist to kill our heroes, and the pure senselessness of their actions is part of the point. Even if you survive the movie's terror, you'll find yourself forever changed by what you watched. You can watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Tubi. You're Next (2013) As an underseen slasher-thriller, You're Next tells the story of a wealthy family who reunites at their parents' mansion in an attempt to bury the hatchet. When they begin to be picked off by masked, crossbow-wielding assassins, the family quickly realizes that they must band together to stay alive. You're Next is thrilling and surprising and features just the right amount of gore and violence. Adam Wingard, who directed the movie, went on to make Godzilla vs. Kong, but this remains his best and most interesting movie to date. You can watch You're Next on Tubi. Freaky (2020) Another great slasher comedy that got totally buried during the pandemic, Freaky combines a standard slasher movie with a body swap comedy to excellent results. The film stars Vince Vaughn as a serial killer who switches bodies with a high school girl; she suddenly becomes much more focused on getting her body back. Vaughn is excellent as a young woman trapped in the body of a middle-aged man, but just as good is Kathryn Newton as a teenage girl turned middle-aged man who wants nothing more than to kill as many people as he can. You can watch Freaky on Amazon Prime Video.
The Guardian
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
I Know What You Did Last Summer review – fun 90s slasher revival hooks us back in
Rushed into production after the surprise success of 1996's Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer has forever lived, and suffered, in the same bracket. Sure it's another slasher with another cast of unblemished faces and sure it's also written by Kevin Williamson but it's always been a far simpler, straighter, sillier film. Scream was trying to reinvent the wheel while I Know What You Did Last Summer was just trying to keep it going. As a franchise, it then quickly became the very thing Williamson was poking fun at in the first place with a rubbishy Bahamas-set sequel (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer!) and, at the time, an inevitable, tossed off, straight-to-video follow-up (I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer!). People quickly gave up caring what anyone had been up to during any summer on record and as the subgenre died, it wisely followed. But as Hollywood continues to fixate on millennial nostalgia, history is repeating itself as a revival of Scream (with two new films both hitting bigger than expected and a third on the way) is now being followed by a return for the fisherman, still thrashing away in the shadow of Ghostface, grunting dumbly while his predecessor delivers a self-satisfied lecture on the state of genre film-making (like Scream, there was also a limp TV resurrection that's best ignored). Expectations lowered, there's enough hokey fun to be had here, the familiar formula – kids do a bad thing, someone tortures them for it, with a standard 2020s uplift – new cast meets old cast. It means a return for 90s heartthrobs Jennifer Love Hewitt (who's been cashing in with a role on TV's absurd procedural 9-1-1) and Freddie Prinze Jr (who's been appearing in films you definitely haven't seen), bringing back one-note characters that were never more then chess pieces but doing it well (they share a solid one-on-one scene that's more substantial than anything yet given to the returning Scream leads). Like Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode who became an alcoholic headmistress in Halloween H20 (a far superior sequel than anything in David Gordon Green's aggressively stupid trilogy), LoveHewitt's Julie James is now working in education (a professor!) and she's dragged back to her home town of Southport when a group of twentysomethings receive a familiar note, a year on from a preventable accident. The sharp young cast, led by Bodies Bodies Bodies standout Chase Sui Wonders, Glass Onion's Madelyn Cline and Stereophonic's Tony nominee Sarah Pidgeon, are all stronger than the characters they've been given, their dynamic made less effective without the tragedy of high school innocence ending and with an unwise attempt to reconfigure the opening accident. In trying to upend expectations, writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (who made one of Netflix's sharpest and funniest teen comedies Do Revenge) messes with the beats a little too much and never really finds a way to smartly justify why the friends wouldn't have fessed up in the beginning. But what Robinson does understand is that the original two films were both slickly made studio horrors underlined by a real sincerity and her redo is both ravishingly glossy (it looks like a real movie unlike 2022's Scream which looked like a Netflix movie) and taken just about seriously enough without resorting to easy wink-wink smugness. When the script, co-written by journalist and author Sam Lansky, does try to inject humour, it's mostly of a limited LA brand, referencing guided meditations and astrology but not doing much with it (I was genuinely shocked that vaping wasn't also used as a source of comedy). It's not annoying enough to distract but it's never quite as funny as it could be. While the first film did achieve some genuinely jolting set pieces (Sarah Michelle Gellar's final chase scene remains a seat-edge highpoint), there's a lack of equivalent suspense with an uptick in gore used instead. The death scenes are certainly gnarly but there's a rhythm that's slightly out of step and Robinson is far more comfortable with the soapy mystery of it all, keenly aware of the franchise's origins in high school paperback storytelling (the first was based on a 70s young adult novel) and there's a propulsive snap to the Scooby Doo plotting (a character even references the show at one point). So while the double-bluff finale might lack tension (both sequences taking place in the daylight is a real atmosphere-killer), the gleefully absurd reveals almost make up for it. There's something charmingly deranged about this kind of hyper-specific fan service, appealing to a select few with the brash confidence that everyone knows exactly what you're talking about. There's not only a surprise dream sequence cameo but a mid-credits sequence that's one of the battiest fanfic indulgences I have seen outside of a Marvel movie (am I, a 90s teen who grew up on these movies, being ruthlessly, and successfully, targeted?). Early buzz has suggested that a younger audience doesn't really know what happened last summer and an older audience doesn't really care and so it's possible that this will live on mostly as a pop culture curio. But at a time of nostalgia overload (Clueless, Legally Blonde and Urban Legend are next), Robinson finds a way to make her attempt not exactly necessary but unpretentiously pleasurable enough for that not to really matter. There might not be a next summer but this makes for an entertaining last hurrah. I Know What You Did Last Summer is out in Australian cinemas on 17 July and in US and UK cinemas on 18 July
The Guardian
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
I Know What You Did Last Summer review – fun 90s slasher revival hooks us back in
Rushed into production after the surprise success of 1996's Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer has forever lived, and suffered, in the same bracket. Sure it's another slasher with another cast of unblemished faces and sure it's also written by Kevin Williamson but it's always been a far simpler, straighter, sillier film. Scream was trying to reinvent the wheel while I Know What You Did Last Summer was just trying to keep it going. As a franchise, it then quickly became the very thing Williamson was poking fun at in the first place with a rubbishy Bahamas-set sequel (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer!) and, at the time, an inevitable, tossed off, straight-to-video follow-up (I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer!). People quickly gave up caring what anyone had been up to during any summer on record and as the subgenre died, it wisely followed. But as Hollywood continues to fixate on millennial nostalgia, history is repeating itself as a revival of Scream (with two new films both hitting bigger than expected and a third on the way) is now being followed by a return for the fisherman, still thrashing away in the shadow of Ghostface, grunting dumbly while his predecessor delivers a self-satisfied lecture on the state of genre film-making (like Scream, there was also a limp TV resurrection that's best ignored). Expectations lowered, there's enough hokey fun to be had here, the familiar formula – kids do a bad thing, someone tortures them for it, with a standard 2020s uplift – new cast meets old cast. It means a return for 90s heartthrobs Jennifer Love Hewitt (who's been cashing in with a role on TV's absurd procedural 9-1-1) and Freddie Prinze Jr (who's been appearing in films you definitely haven't seen), bringing back one-note characters that were never more then chess-pieces but doing it well (they share a solid one-on-one scene that's more substantial than anything yet given to the returning Scream leads). Like Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode who became an alcoholic headmistress in Halloween H20 (a far superior sequel than anything in David Gordon Green's aggressively stupid trilogy), LoveHewitt's Julie James is now working in education (a professor!) and she's dragged back to her hometown of Southport when a group of twentysomethings receive a familiar note, a year on from a preventable accident. The sharp young cast, led by Bodies Bodies Bodies standout Chase Sui Wonders, Glass Onion's Madelyn Cline and Stereophonic's Tony nominee Sarah Pidgeon, are all stronger than the characters they've been given, their dynamic made less effective without the tragedy of high school innocence ending and with an unwise attempt to reconfigure the opening accident. In trying to upend expectations, writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (who made one of Netflix's sharpest and funniest teen comedies Do Revenge) messes with the beats a little too much and never really finds a way to smartly justify why the friends wouldn't have fessed up in the beginning. But what Robinson does understand is that the original two films were both slickly made studio horrors underlined by a real sincerity and her redo is both ravishingly glossy (it looks like a real movie unlike 2022's Scream which looked like a Netflix movie) and taken just about seriously enough without resorting to easy wink-wink smugness. When the script, co-written by journalist and author Sam Lansky, does try to inject humour, it's mostly of a limited LA brand, referencing guided meditations and astrology but not doing much with it (I was genuinely shocked that vaping wasn't also used as a source of comedy). It's not annoying enough to distract but it's never quite as funny as it could be. While the first film did achieve some genuinely jolting setpieces (Sarah Michelle Gellar's final chase scene remains a seat-edge highpoint), there's a lack of equivalent suspense with an uptick in gore used instead. The death scenes are certainly gnarly but there's a rhythm that's slightly out of step and Robinson is far more comfortable with the soapy mystery of it all, keenly aware of the franchise's origins in high school paperback storytelling (the first was based on a 70s young adult novel) and there's a propulsive snap to the Scooby Doo plotting (a character even references the show at one point). So while the double-bluff finale might lack tension (both sequences taking place in the daylight is a real atmosphere-killer), the gleefully absurd reveals almost make up for it. There's something charmingly deranged about this kind of hyper-specific fan service, appealing to a select few with the brash confidence that everyone knows exactly what you're talking about. There's not only a surprise dream sequence cameo but a mid-credits sequence that's one of the battiest fanfic indulgences I have seen outside of a Marvel movie (am I, a 90s teen who grew up on these movies, being ruthlessly, and successfully, targeted?). Early buzz has suggested that a younger audience doesn't really know what happened last summer and an older audience doesn't really care and so it's possible that this will live on mostly as a pop culture curio. But at a time of nostalgia overload (Clueless, Legally Blonde and Urban Legend are next), Robinson finds a way to make her attempt not exactly necessary but unpretentiously pleasurable enough for that not to really matter. There might not be a next summer but this makes for an entertaining last hurrah. I Know What You Did Last Summer is out in Australian cinemas on 17 July and in US and UK cinemas on 18 July
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First Post
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- First Post
From 'Halloween' to 'Scream': Top 5 slashes movies that left a strong imprint on audiences
These aren't just horror movies — they're milestones that redefined the genre, launched careers, and made us sleep with the lights on. read more From masked killers to unforgettable final girls, slasher films have terrified, thrilled, and entertained audiences for decades. But only a few managed to break through the blood-soaked pack and leave a permanent scar on pop culture. These aren't just horror movies — they're milestones that redefined the genre, launched careers, and made us sleep with the lights on. Ahead of the release of I Know What You Did Last Summer, here's a look at top 5 slasher movies that have left an impact. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Halloween (1978) Directed by John Carpenter and starring Jamie Lee Curtis alongside Donald Pleasence, Halloween introduced audiences to Michael Myers — a silent, relentless killer stalking babysitters on Halloween night. With its haunting score, minimalist storytelling, and chilling suspense, this low-budget film became a genre-defining masterpiece and cemented Curtis as the original 'scream queen.' Scream (1996) Horror legend Wes Craven turned the slasher genre on its head with Scream, a clever, self-aware take on horror tropes. Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette, the film delivered both satire and scares while introducing the iconic Ghostface killer. It revitalized the slasher genre for a new generation and made audiences suspicious of everyone. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Also directed by Wes Craven, this surreal horror classic starred Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund as the terrifying Freddy Krueger, and a young Johnny Depp in his film debut. With its dream-based concept and gruesome visuals, A Nightmare on Elm Street took slasher horror into the supernatural, giving us one of cinema's most unique and terrifying villains. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson, this glossy teen slasher featured a who's-who of '90s stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Ryan Phillippe. Following a group of friends haunted by a deadly secret and hunted by a hook-wielding killer, the film delivered suspense, stylish thrills, and one of horror's most iconic chase scenes. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Directed by Tobe Hooper, this gritty, relentless film introduced the world to Leatherface, played by Gunnar Hansen, and starred Marilyn Burns as the original final girl. Its grainy, documentary-style realism and raw terror made it feel disturbingly real — a landmark in horror cinema that continues to influence filmmakers to this day.
Daily Mail
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox's friendship still going strong 30 years after filming Friends
and Courteney Cox proved their friendship is still as strong as ever as they posed in a sweet snap on Monday. The actresses, who met playing Rachel and Monica on iconic sitcom Friends, cuddled up to each other in the snap shared on Jennifer's Instagram. Fans went wild in the comments section, with one person writing: 'Rach and Mon Forever.' The co-stars have spoken warmly about their enduring bond, with Jennifer describing Courteney as 'fiercely loving' and 'ridiculously loyal'. Jennifer previously added: 'There's absolutely no judgment in Court. You'll never feel scolded. She's extremely fair, ridiculously loyal and fiercely loving. 'I've slept in her guest bedroom a lot. Without giving away too much of my private stuff, all I can say is she's been there for me through thick and thin.' Supportive: Fans raved about their bond in the comments section Meanwhile, Courteney revealed the contents of a little-used closet in her Malibu home in a post she shared to Instagram on Wednesday. She said: 'Living in California, we have very little need for a coat closet. This is what I have in my coat closet.' The first item was a Ghostface mask popcorn bucket from her beloved Scream franchise. She also revealed she had a collection of masks of her face as she looked on Friends, which she said were bought by her dog walker. She also opened a bag to find a cardboard cutout of herself, and joked she was 'really not' obsessed with herself. Courteney then showed off the only coats in the closet, for her dogs Lily and Bear. Cute: She grabbed a dark blue coat for her dog Bear to go for a walk in the rain
