Spoilers beneath.
A phrase that makes “I Know What You Did Last Summer” followers 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 on the time for being a low-quality follow-up.
To today, it’s thought of a number of notches beneath the unique.
However, within the post-credits sequence of the brand new “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” in theaters now, one of many stars of “Still” nonetheless returns to the freaky fold: Brandy’s Karla Wilson.
The shocker scene begins in a home as a TV exhibits a information report concerning the newest spherical of Fisherman murders in seaside Southport, North Carolina. Then a person seems.
“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 within the movie alongside Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray, is standing on 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, organising a potential sequel.
In “Still,” Julie and Karla win a radio contest that will get them a free journey to the Bahamas. However the prize is a setup. Ben Willis — aka the Fisherman serial killer — is ready for them on the island, hook in hand.
In the long run, Julie and Karla each survive the Caribbean carnage.
“That was in the contract,” Brandy, 46, advised Leisure Tonight in June. “Black people don’t last in horror films, so I had to put that in the contract.”
The brand new refresh of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” truly mocks the spotty repute of “Still.”
When faculty child Teddy (Tyriq Withers) suggests his frightened buddies simply “f–k off to the Bahamas” to keep away from the wrath of the Fisherman, Prinze Jr.’s bar proprietor Ray glares at him.
“For reasons I cannot get into, I wouldn’t do that,” he says.
