Spoilers below.
A word that makes “I Know What You Did Last Summer” fans shudder? “Still.”
The 1998 sequel “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer,” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Brandy Norwood, was ripped by critics and moviegoers at the time for being a low-quality follow-up.
To this day, it’s considered several notches below the original.
But, in the post-credits sequence of the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” in theaters now, one of the stars of “Still” nonetheless returns to the freaky fold: Brandy’s Karla Wilson.
The shocker scene begins in a house as a TV shows a news report about the latest round of Fisherman murders in seaside Southport, North Carolina. Then a man appears.
“Isn’t that your old college roommate?” he asks as Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Julie James pops up onscreen.
Dramatically, Brandy enters.
“Yes,” says Karla. “People are always trying to kill that woman. I hope she’s in therapy.”
Then the doorbell rings, and Hewitt, who stars in the film alongside Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray, is standing at the door.
“Julie! Oh my God, it’s been years!” Karla says. “I was watching the news, and you can’t catch a damn break!” A stone-faced Julie replies, “I need your help.”
“Who are we f–king up this time?” asks Brandy, setting up a possible sequel.
In “Still,” Julie and Karla win a radio contest that gets them a free trip to the Bahamas. But the prize is a setup. Ben Willis — aka the Fisherman serial killer — is waiting for them on the island, hook in hand.
In the end, Julie and Karla both survive the Caribbean carnage.
“That was in the contract,” Brandy, 46, told Entertainment Tonight in June. “Black people don’t last in horror films, so I had to put that in the contract.”
The new refresh of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” actually mocks the spotty reputation of “Still.”
When college kid Teddy (Tyriq Withers) suggests his frightened friends just “f–k off to the Bahamas” to avoid the wrath of the Fisherman, Prinze Jr.’s bar owner Ray glares at him.
“For reasons I cannot get into, I wouldn’t do that,” he says.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
