The upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel will ramp up the gore, blood and violence, the director has promised.
The original horror movie hit the big screen in 1997, with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe among the stars.
Hewitt and Prinze Jr, who played Julie James and Ray Bronson respectively, returned for the 1998 follow-up, which also starred Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer, Matthew Settle and Jack Black.
The pair have reprised their roles for the new slasher – set to be released on July 18 -and fans have been calling out for Norwood, who played Karla Wilson, to pop back up.
Teasing what the creepy hook-wielding killer has in store, director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who wrote the film with Leah McKendrick and Sam Lansky, was also questioned on whether viewers would get their wish.
‘You’ll have to go see the movie,’ she urged, explaining that they ‘approached it like super fans, so I think people are going to be really happy.
‘We have one really, really fantastic nod to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer that people are going to love.
‘All the things that you want to see in this movie, you’re going to see in this movie.’
‘It is not a serious movie. It is a really fun, popcorn summer event,’ she continued to People Magazine, promising that the horror aspect is ‘ratcheted up to a hundred in this — it’s much more brutal.
‘There’s definitely more methodology to every kill in this movie, unlike the first, which is kind of just him stalking them and going after them.
‘There’s not a lot of gore or blood or violence in the first one. There certainly is in this one.’
While little else is known about the plot, Norwood previously expressed her interest in reprising her role, telling the Hollywood Reporter: ‘I need them to give me a call because I survived in that movie!
‘I came out in the end, bloodied up, ready to go. I did not die in that film!
‘Jennifer, Freddie, hit me up!’
The original 90s scare-fest followed a group of teenagers in a small town accidentally killing a man and covering it up – before being hunted by a hook-wielding serial killer on the anniversary of the attack.
Julie and Ray somehow managed to survive the first movie and jetted out to the Bahamas for the sequel along with Karla.
In the new I Know What You Did Last Summer, which is due to terrify us all in just a few months, a new group of youngsters will find themselves on the bad side of a psychopath.
Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders are starring alongside Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Billy Campbell and Gabbriette Bechtel in the reboot.
The official synopsis reads: ‘When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences.
‘A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge.
‘As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.’
I Know What You Did Last Summer is in cinemas on July 18.
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