1998 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

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Posted By: Brian Schell July 15, 2025

Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone

It still continues to be a bafflingly slow case of revenge. More time has passed, and the killer is still working on it. This brings back the survivors from the previous movie and some new folks. With those people to work with plus random folks here and there, the body count is a bit higher. Nothing else about this one really elevates it much from the first movie. It was just okay.

Spoilery Synopsis

Julie, from the first film, goes into a church for confession. She admits to accidentally killing a man. The man came back and killed Barry and Helen, her friends, but she killed him in the end. “I know what you did last summer,” says the priest before he grabs her. 

Julie wakes up in the middle of class, screaming. She talks to Will, a classmate and new friend about the whole thing. It’s been one full year since the end of the earlier troubles, and she’s got clear PTSD. 

Ray arrives; he wants her to come to the Croaker Queen thing back at home, but she absolutely doesn’t want to do that. She carries pepper spray and has three deadbolts on her dorm room door. She gets a jump scare from her new friend, Karla, who lets herself into Julie’s room. 

That night, at the club, Tyrell flirts with Karla as Julie watches. Will is there, at Karla’s invitation, much to Julie’s confusion. Later, Karla wins some tickets to the Bahamas, and invites all the characters. 

Ray and Dave drive down the road and stop to investigate a crashed car. The fisherman-killer kills Dave with his hook and narrowly misses running over Ray. 

Karla and Julie laugh as Tyrell shows up with Will at the airport. Ray does not make it as planned. Will gets airsick. Ty gets seasick later, so it’s all good. They soon arrive on a remote island in the Bahamas. When they arrive at the resort, they run into Titus, a friendly pothead they didn’t know was going to be there. 

The manager of the hotel, Mr. Brooks, wishes he were somewhere else and isn’t particularly friendly. “Our marginally trained, off-season staff will attend to some of your needs,” he explains. This is the first day of storm season. 

Ray’s beaten up badly in the hospital, and the doctor tells the detective his story. Suddenly, Ray flatlines. No, he’s gone out the window. 

The group meets Nancy, the bartender, and Estes, the bellhop. Julie sings karaoke to the empty bar. “I still know what you did last summer” appears on the karaoke machine’s screen. She runs back to her room to find a note– from Will. Frustrated, Will goes off for a walk. 

We see that the killer is on the island when he kills the ferry’s deck hand for no real reason. He also gets the housekeeper. 

Julie finds a body in her closet, but when she gathers Mr. Brooks and the others, there’s no body there. Brooks explains that there’s no boats leaving several days due to storms and the phones are out as well. Oh, and there’s a hurricane coming. 

We cut to old Estes, doing some kind of weird ritual with Julie’s missing toothbrush. We then cut to the hook-man killing Titus with hedge trimmers. Back in the city, Ray hocks the engagement ring he bought for Julie. He buys a gun. 

Julie and Karla go to the resort’s gym, and Julie tries the tanning bed. Karla finds the cleaning woman’s body in the dryer. Ty and Will find Titus’s body as well. Julie finds herself locked in the tanning bed and panics. Nobody thinks she’s crazy anymore. The whole group stomps down to Brooks’s office, where they find him dead and the radio smashed. 

Julie points out that they never found Ben Willis’s body last year. Ty remembers Estes, and thinks he might know something. They go to Estes’s Voodoo-hut, but all they find there is their own stuff. Estes explains that the question they answered to win their tickets was wrong; he’s been trying to help them all along. This whole thing has been a setup. Estes whacks Will over the head with an oar. 

Ray makes it to the island ferry office and forces the captain, by gunpoint, to take him there. 

Ty and the girls find Nancy, the bartender, hiding in the meat locker. The killer soon gets Ty to shut up, permanently. He chases them up to the attic and down to the greenhouse. 

Nancy leads Julie and Carla to the storm shelter, where they find all the bodies. Nancy runs into Estes, and they’re both killed by the baddie. 

Will shows up and leads them back out. He’s covered in blood but tells Julie that it’s not his. Yeah, he was the one who arranged this whole trip. He explains that he’s Ben’s son, and Ben is there as well. 

Suddenly, Ray shows up with a pistol. “You’re no killer; you don’t have it in ya!” Ray pulls the trigger, and the gun doesn’t work. After a scuffle, Ben ends up hooking Will by accident. The gun works just fine when Julie shoots Ben over and over again. 

The storm ends. The Coast Guard helicopter picks up Julie, Karla, and Ray. 

Some time later, back at home, Julie and Ray have moved in together. One night, we see muddy footprints inside their house. Yep, the killer’s under the bed. 

Brian’s Commentary

We need more surprise Jack Black in every scene, right?

There were only two survivors from the first film, and if the killer wanted them dead, why play all the games and kill all the innocents? It would have been easy to kill Julie just anytime. 

I liked the resort setting and the forced isolation of the hurricane, but there really wasn’t much new here. 

Kevin’s Commentary

I find the whole concept of the first movie and this one basically flawed, with the slow moving revenge. And for some reason this one has the revenge spilling over to innocent people who had nothing to do with it. It’s well made, but just middling in my book.