The new I Know What You Did Last Summer featured more familiar faces than anticipated. Warning: Major spoilers below for the plot of IKWYDLS 2025: The latest iteration of the beloved slasher flick, which hit theaters on Friday, July 18, follows a group of teens who find history repeating itself when they accidentally kill a man on the 4th of July. When a masked fisherman begins to murder them one by one, they enlist the help of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr.
’s Julie James and Ray Bronson, the original survivors of the 1997 attacks. Hewitt, 48, and Prinze Jr., 49, both starred in IKWYDLS alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe , with the latter two not making it to the sequel.
Gellar’s onscreen death in particular has been lauded as one of the best in horror movie history, with many fans wishing her character, Helen, made it out alive after nearly escaping the fisherman’s clutches. Related: ‘IKWYDLS’ Ending Explained: Is There a Post-Credits Scene? Who‘s the Killer? Director and cowriter of the 2025 film Jennifer Kaytin Robinson clearly understands the love for Gellar’s character, honoring her in various ways in the new film. Madelyn Cline’s Danica is clearly meant to be Helen 2.
0, a beauty queen and overall diva (in the best way). The new cast makes a stop by Helen’s grave amid the chaos, and podcaster Tyler ( Gabbreitte ) sports a Helen Shivers T-shirt throughout the film — “Oh god, isn’t she so hot? Sucks she’s dead,” Tyle.
