“I Know What You Did Last Summer” is a movie with an ending that only horror movies have, the sheer desperation to have a sequel by putting everything back to square one and make the film you’ve just watched entirely needless. I haven’t ruined anything because if you know anything about horror movies (more specifically the slasher sub-genre) this film is going to go through every cliché you can think of.

In this picture, four teens run over some guy one July 4th and decide to dump his body in the water and then try to move on with their lives. A year later, guilt has torn them apart but now somebody is going round claiming to know what they ‘did last summer’ so the group is forced to reunite.

Jennifer Love Hewitt (“The Tuxedo”, “Garfield) is probably the best of the teens on offer but even she can’t help but descend into non-stop screaming during the third act; here’s a hint, if you want to evade a serial killer, screaming really loudly when you’re trapped on a boat at sea with him is only going to attract him to your exact whereabouts. Freddie Prinze Jr. (“Scooby-Doo”) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (“The Grudge”) also play teens and won’t impress. The killer is a guy in a fisherman costume with a hook as his weapon of choice; let’s call him ‘Hooky’ just to give him an ounce of personality.

To the film’s credit, there are some reasonably suspenseful moments and at times there’s an alright sense of mystery/whodunit but the acting is awful, the killer is unmemorable and the ending buries it for me. The film’s at least better than many of the “Halloween” and “Nightmare On Elm Street” films so if you’re desperate for some more teens getting bumped off then there are certainly worse films to see.