A slasher sequel so bad it rendered a franchise irrelevant for 25 years dismembers the streaming charts

While it’s entirely true that you can’t keep a horror franchise down forever, you can damn sure render it obsolete and irrelevant. It may have taken 25 years, but the sins of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer are preparing to be forgiven now that a legacy sequel is officially on the cards to bring the saga full circle.

The original may have been a thinly-veiled clone of Scream – which is to be expected given that both of them were written by Kevin Williamson – but the blood-soaked nightmare packed with a bevvy of rising and future stars still managed to haul in an impressive $125 million at the box office on a $17 million budget.

Second time around, the results couldn’t have gone much worse after the follow-up earned almost 300 percent less from theaters than its predecessor despite being at least twice as expensive to produce, with a seven percent Rotten Tomatoes score rubbing salt into an already-open wound. From there, a VOD threequel that nobody gave a rat’s ass about landed in 2006 with no connection to its forebears other than the premise, before another decade and a half of dormancy followed in the aftermath.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is worthy of its reputation for being so terrible, but horror is about as bulletproof as it gets on streaming, so it’s not really a shock that the widely-panned moonlit romp has been making waves all over again. Per FlixPatrol, the interminable offering is currently one of the most-watched features on Rakuten, which does at least bode well for its next chapter.