Have You Seen: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week we revisit I Know What You Did Last Summer, a 1997 slasher movie directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr, about four teenage friends who are stalked by a hook-wielding killer one year after covering up a car accident in which they supposedly killed a man.We talk about why the movie is so well known and has received so many sequels without ever achieving critical success, how it somehow feels like the embodiment of 90's teen slashers even though the plot is mostly forgettable, whether the movie's mystery that makes up most of the movie is engaging, the movie's surprisingly deep treatment of themes like trust and class, and much more.Also check out our review of the newest installment of I Know What You Did Last Summer from 2025:https://open.spotify.com/episode/72DMoxTkaff0A05K1ct2lO