2006 I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer

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Posted By: Brian Schell July 22, 2025

Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone

Here we have a whole new set of young people who accidentally cause a death and decide to cover it up. Then a year later, someone knows what they did last summer and starts in on the stalking and killing. Who could it be? Probably not who you’d guess. This wasn’t an improvement on the previous movies. It was okay, but a step down.

Spoilery Synopsis

The movie opens to many people having fun at the carnival. On the Ferris wheel, Amber wants to hear the story about what always happens on the 4th of July, when The Fisherman kills teenagers. They all debate over whether it’s an urban legend or not. This is a ski town in Colorado in the summer, so there’s not much else happening. PJ is the son of the local sheriff, and he’s joined the army. 

Suddenly, The Fisherman attacks, and scares all the teenagers. The Fisherman chases PJ off the roof. No, wait, it’s just Roger, who bought the costume on eBay as a prank. Except the padding that PJ was supposed to fall on got moved, and he’s dead for real because he fell on a tractor instead. 

Amber wants to go to the police and tell them everything, but Zoe wonders if it was even really an accident. They all argue about what they did. Colby, Zoe, and Roger want to just keep quiet about the whole thing and let the town just think it was a crazy serial killer. Amber is hesitant, but she gives in to the group. 

A year passes. Lance, PJ’s cousin, talks to Amber about why she’s still in town. Colby has returned from Las Vegas, and he didn’t tell Amber that his internship didn’t work out. She leaves him to go off and cry. Deputy Hefner runs into Amber and tells her to call him if she wants to talk. 

That night at home, Amber finds a note from her parents, who are out of town. Then she gets fifty text messages on her phone: “I know what you did last summer.”

Amber goes to see Zoe, who isn’t much of a friend anymore, but they rekindle things. They go to see Roger, who repairs ski lifts at the resort. He doesn’t know anything. Afterward, they run into Sheriff Davis, PJ’s father, who says it’s going to be tough heading into the anniversary. Colton also says he’s kept quiet about the accident. Colton also receives a note. 

Amber rides her bike up into the mountains, and someone sabotages it. She takes a ski lift back down the mountain, in a storm, and that’s tense. She sees the Fisherman on the roof of the cable car, fifty feet in the air. 

Roger, on the other hand, is not dealing with all of this well. He drinks, takes drugs, and cries a lot. He also sees the Fisherman, but this time, is killed by him. Amber, Colton, and Zoe arrive and find the body. They also find a suicide note, but that doesn’t seem likely. Deputy Hafner catches them there, and they show him the note. He also puts the move on Amber again. When Amber goes home, all her photos have been shredded and some formed into the word “SOON.” 

The next day, the group goes to see Lance. Lance says the sheriff has been hanging around asking questions. Could the sheriff be the killer? Colton leaves the sheriff a note, saying he knows what the sheriff is doing this summer. Zoe’s guitar gets vandalized. Lance tells Amber that he knows what they did last summer, and someone has vandalized his motorcycle. Colton is attacked at the pool, leaving him with a wounded leg. 

The whole group, now including Lance, gather to discuss the problems. They all assume it’s the sheriff doing all this, so maybe they could tell the deputy. They all go to see Deputy Hafner at his house, but the sheriff and all the cops are there, so they don’t say anything. 

It’s finally the Fourth, and Zoe is performing at a talent show, knowing agents will be there. Lance and Amber start getting close. The sheriff watches everyone ominously. Colby breaks into the bar and gets really drunk. After the show, the killer hooks Zoe.

The sheriff walks in and finds Zoe’s body as Lance and Amber hide. As they explain themselves, the killer kills the sheriff. 

The killer chases Colby all around the kitchen, and he gets hooked right through the door. Deputy Hafner shows up, and he wants to know why they’re covered in blood. Hafner says he knows what they did last summer; Roger told him. Hafner kept it a secret to protect Amber. 

Suddenly, the killer shows up and kills Hafner, who previously had been our main suspect. Amber steals the police car and rams the killer, who gets back up again. We get our first good look at him and he appears to be  a zombie-monster to Amber now. “The legend has become true, it’s the guy from the original story!” Amber uses her own hook to injure the Fisherman, so maybe that might work. 

Lance and Amber run to the ski resort where they use the hook and push him into a snowplow, which grinds him up. 

One year later, Amber’s in Nevada and gets a flat tire and the Fisherman kills her…

Brian’s Commentary

So after all the serial-killing, the Fisherman turns out to be an actual supernatural monster? Scooby-Doo would not be pleased. This completely killed the whodunnit aspect of the film, since it wasn’t any of the main characters. 

This one has none of the stars or characters from the previous films, it’s a whole new thing. Why is “The Fisherman” from the sea town in the previous films even a thing in a Colorado ski resort? There’s no fishing there. 

The setting, a ski resort in summer, is interesting. Otherwise, there’s not much going for this one. Other than the initial accident, there’s only one death in the entire first hour, and only two of the original four conspirators die before the end anyway. 

It’s not so good. 

Kevin’s Commentary

So the ghost zombie of Ben, the killer from the previous movies, grew his hand back after he died. Then the fact that the kids used his likeness as a prank that resulted in the death of someone caused him to stalk them a year later to avenge the death of someone he never knew in a Colorado town far from the ocean. They didn’t even have to say his name three times. And he can teleport all over from place to place when he wants to, but doesn’t teleport away from getting ground up in the snowplow.

At least in the previous movies, there was a bit of figuring out who and why. I can see why they might have tried to shake things up a bit to avoid repetition, but I can’t say I’m very pleased. I’d say the three films have gone down a notch with each one.