10 Reshoots That Actually Improved Horror Movies
5. I Know What You Did Last Summer
As well as being an archetypal teen slasher, 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer did the world a favour by bringing together the ultimate power couple, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Without it, we may never have gotten the live action Scooby-Doo movie. That's not a world anybody wants to live in.
Prinze and Gellar play two members of a group of kids who run over a mysterious figure one summer, only for their actions to catch up with them in increasingly gruesome ways.
The first character to taste the cold steel of vengeance is Max, played by future Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki. Max gets impaled on the villain's hook early on in the film, but it wasn't the film's murderous fisherman that killed him, it was test audiences.
People at these screenings complained that there weren't any deaths in the early portion of the film. Seeing as Max had the flimsiest connection to the rest of the gang, he was chosen as the sacrificial lamb.
Those audiences were right; the film needed an early death to give it a jolt of energy. Maybe test screenings aren't as bad as everyone thought.