10 Movie Sequels Whose Titles No Longer Made Sense

9. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

I Know What You Did Last Summer, or Scream without the jokes, was Dawson's Creek scribe Kevin Williamson's attempt at turning himself into a one man teen horror franchise generator. Based (loosely) on a little remembered 1970s young adult suspense book by Lois Duncan, the story tries to make teens responsible for a hit and run (or rather a hit and dump the body) into sympathetic protagonists when they start receiving the accusatory note of the title from an anonymous stalker. Containing the line "'I know what you did last summer', what a crock of shit", it is also impressively self-reviewing. Duncan didn't write a sequel and Williamson had no real interest in working on one, but that didn't deter studio Mandalay. They simply knocked together an identikit plot where implausibly chesty teen Julie is menaced again by poison pen notes and the murder of her friends thanks to the hoary old cliche of a vengeful relative. The sequel is set a year after the original (so two years after the titular summer) and involves a different killer, but I Also Know What You Did The Summer Before Last was a cumbersome title too far, hence the temporally inaccurate I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. The knowledge of events of summers past trilogy was concluded with the direct to DVD I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer in which the supernaturally capable killer from the first film knows what another bunch of teens did in a completely different summer.