A Remake of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' is on the Way for Some Reason

The '90s were a great time, especially if you were fans of the hot young stars who seemed to be in everything. Not only were you treated to great teen comedies like Can't Hardly Wait, but there was also a pair of big horror franchises that redefined the genre for awhile. Of course there was Scream, but maybe half a rung below it was I Know what You Did Last Summer. Starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, the 1997 film spawned a theatrical sequel a year later, and a terrible straight-to-DVD movie in 2006. But a franchise is a franchise, and so there's a remake on the way.

Mike Flanaga, co-writer and director of this year's horror film, Oculus, has been hired to pen the script for I Know what You Did Last Summer. He'll be adapting Lois Duncan's 1973 book which centered on four teens who accidentally kill someone and dispose of the body, while making a pact to never speak of it again. That is until they're stalked by a mysterious serial killer who claims to know exactly what they did last summer.

The big problem will be finding a way to make this film relevant after years of it being the subject of parody. We saw that Scream 4 couldn't do it just three years ago, and I Know what You Did Last Summer could face a similar fate.

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'Oculus' Director Mike Flanagan to Helm Stephen King's 'Gerald's Game'

There was a lot of buzz amongst the horror crowd when Mike Flanagan's Oculus started hitting festivals last year. When it opened in theaters just weeks ago it performed well for a small-budget flick, and now Flanagan is moving up to something bigger. And when it comes to horror it doesn't get much bigger than Stephen King.

Flanagan is set to direct and co-write (with Jeff Howard) an adaptation of King's 1992 thriller, Gerald's Game. This one starts off like something out of Misery, following a married couple engaged in some sexual bondage with the wife handcuffed to the bed. When she accidentally kills her husband in the process, she discovers that she is trapped and starts to let the voices in her head take over.

Flangan: “In the tradition of Misery and Dolores Claiborne, Gerald’s Game is one of the most intense and compelling novels I’ve ever read, and this has been a dream project for many years. Trevor and I are very excited to help translate that experience for an audience."

Flanagan will make this his next project, pushing into 2015 his plans to shoot another film titled Diver.

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Beware the Killer Mirror in New Trailer and Poster for Horror 'Oculus'

A few years ago there was a mid-level horror film called Mirrors, that rang up a pretty decent box office on the strength of its cast led by Kiefer Sutherland and Paula Patton. It wasn't especially memorable, but the one thing it did right was impart a valuable lesson that mirrors are not to be trifled with, and it has nothing to do with seven years of bad luck. But apparently that message wasn't learned by everybody, which is why movies like Oculus exist.

A new trailer, poster, and a handful of photos have been released for Oculus, a horror which generated some solid buzz among the TIFF midnight crowd. Directed by Mike Flanagan with Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Rory Cochrane and Katee Sackhoff starring, the film centers on siblings whose lives were ruined by a malevolent force unleashed through an antique mirror. Some folks never learn.

Oculus will hit up SXSW soon before opening in theaters April 11th.


Oculus - Official Trailer by Dread Central

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