10 Horror Franchises That Ended Too Soon

To responded to Julie Jones' screams of "What are you waiting for, huh?!" in that first movie, so many of us are still waiting for a proper third movie in the Last Summer franchise.

After Scream reinvented the horror genre in 1996, a slew of films looked to follow the lead of Wes Craven's classic. And one of the better movies to come along at that point was 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer. Not only that, for that '97 picture was followed up a year later by the equally impressive I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

For years, fans were teased with the idea of a third and final outing for the franchise, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. That threequel would indeed arrive in 2006, but it would have minimal ties to the previous two movies.

In fact, the only tie to the first two films was the fact that the killer of I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer turned out to be demented, presumed dead fisherman Ben Willis. As for Jennifer Love Hewitt's Julie Jones and Freddie Prinze Jr.'s Ray Bronson? Absent without trace.

So instead of the fitting final leg of this trilogy for characters audiences had spent two movies getting invested in, we were given a third film that was a made-for-TV piece of trash. Whether it's a fourth movie bringing back Julie and Ray, or a new movie that simply ignores I'll Always Know, there's still a sense of loose ends needing to be tied up for this once-popular franchise.