Episode 256 – I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)/Bring Her Back

Things are getting a little too hot this week on The Grave Plot Podcast. Before we dive into reviews, we kick things off with Horror Business, including a truly bizarre Real World Horror story involving a family who believe they’ve been cursed after an encounter with a mysterious holy man… followed by a series of unexplained fires. Whether it’s supernatural, coincidence, or something far stranger, it’s the kind of story that feels ripped straight out of a horror movie. From there, we run through a stacked batch of genre news, including the continued expansion of the Poohniverse, which is now barreling toward an all-out monster mash crossover. We also talk Mike Flanagan officially stepping into The Exorcist franchise, a sequel to the slasher Stream being penned by one of the Impractical Jokers, a Christmas-set Return of the Living Dead sequel shambling toward release, and Eli Roth teaming up with Snoop Dogg for a haunted house movie with a title that pretty much says it all. Then it’s time for reviews. We revisit sun-drenched slasher nostalgia with 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, breaking down whether this legacy sequel earns its resurrection or should’ve stayed buried. After that, we close things out with Bring Her Back, a much darker and more intimate horror film that gives us plenty to chew on. 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