I Know What You Did Last Summer
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"I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997) follows a group of friends stalked by a hook-wielding killer a year after covering up a fatal hit-and-run accident, becoming one of the most commercially successful films of the late-1990s slasher revival that "Scream" had triggered the previous year. Written by Kevin Williamson, fresh off "Scream's" success, the film leaned more heavily into straightforward slasher conventions and teen-cast glamour than its meta-textual predecessor, helping define the more traditionally styled half of the era's slasher revival. Its coastal small-town setting and central "I know what you did" premise, built around guilt and consequence rather than a purely random killer, gave the film a distinct hook that helped distinguish it within the crowded late-1990s teen horror landscape. Its combination of its major commercial success and its role defining the more traditional side of the late-1990s slasher revival has made "I Know What You Did Last Summer" one of the genre's most significant films of its era.
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