10 Films That Retconned Themselves (To Fix Glaring Mistakes)
4. I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer – The Fisherman’s Supernatural Abilities
Another entry, another threequel, and another slasher flick? What are the odds, you might start thinking that there’s uniquely shoddy about the writing of cash-in second sequels (we here at WhatCulture refuse to hear a bad word about the writing quality in slasher movies, however).
What’s frustrating about the I know What You Did Last Summer series is the third film’s twist, which reveals the hooded killer to be the ghost of the original film’s deadly fisherman, could have been a clever retcon. The explanation of his supernatural capabilities could explain, for example, how the fisherman survived the first two films despite all odds and evaded detection.
Except that the killer was very much flesh and blood in those films, as evidenced by his gory onscreen ‘deaths’ in both. As such, the audience is left with a limp franchise killer which threw in a paranormal explanation to justify its existence while complicating the preceding films in the process.