Spoilers beneath.
A phrase that makes “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” followers shudder? “Nonetheless.”
The 1998 sequel “I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time,” 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 at the present time, it’s thought-about a number of notches beneath the unique.
However, within the post-credits sequence of the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” in theaters now, one of many stars of “Nonetheless” nonetheless returns to the freaky fold: Brandy’s Karla Wilson.
The shocker scene begins in a home as a TV reveals a information report concerning the newest spherical of Fisherman murders in seaside Southport, North Carolina. Then a person seems.
“Isn’t that your previous faculty roommate?” he asks as Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Julie James pops up onscreen.
Dramatically, Brandy enters.
“Sure,” says Karla. “Individuals are all the time making an attempt to kill that girl. I hope she’s in remedy.”
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 used to be watching the information, and you’ll’t catch a rattling break!” A stone-faced Julie replies, “I want your assist.”
“Who’re we f–king up this time?” asks Brandy, organising a attainable sequel.
In “Nonetheless,” 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 within the contract,” Brandy, 46, told Entertainment Tonight in June. “Black individuals don’t final in horror movies, so I needed to put that within the contract.”
The brand new refresh of “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” truly mocks the spotty status of “Nonetheless.”
When faculty child Teddy (Tyriq Withers) suggests his frightened associates simply “f–okay off to the Bahamas” to keep away from the wrath of the Fisherman, Prinze Jr.’s bar proprietor Ray glares at him.
“For causes I can not get into, I wouldn’t try this,” he says.
