I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) poster
2025 · horror · thriller · mystery · supernatural

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson1h 51m2025
ElsewhereIMDb5.140kMetacritic42
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want glossy Gen-Z slasher guilt, harpoon kills, and franchise callbacks.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 2/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scaresdrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if illogical slashers or bloody teen kills feel like homework tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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