'' I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER '' FILM REVIEW

LET IT DIE : ' I Know What You Did Last Summer ' remake immediately makes it to the list-of-all-time mistakes studios have made.

AFTER 27 years - give or take the time each sequel interrupts the flow - the killer with the fish hook and a passion for killing unruly teenagers, returns to the town of South Port,  New Carolina and you ask : Why, O Lord Almighty, WHY?

On the 4th of July, a bunch of perty-high teens cause a car to veer off a cliff. Traumatised for roughly five minutes, the youngsters [ actors  Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Jonah Hauer-King,  Tyriq Withers ] rebound from their collective guilt with the resilience only Gen Z TikTok influencers could muster - they return to their unbothered, liberated lifestyle with a renewed commitment to hook-ups and parties.

One wonders if '' getting it on ' with others is the only prerogative in their life. Until that is, '' The Fisherman ' [ this franchise's gruesome murderer ] returns to kill them.

Soon, bodies drop indiscriminately - but not just of the four party animals. Anyone that falls in  within two degrees of today's definition of teenage of teenage recklessness is fair game.

Spawned from the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan, this entry in the movie series [ the only exception is the 2006 standalone direct-to-video entry,

I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer], is a hot mess — and not the kind that you could have a chuckle about afterwards.

Screenwriters Sam Lansky and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the latter also serving as the director, are hell-bent on making all characters as deplorable as possible.

They have little to no substance, and their world view is constricted to superficial gloss (which one can see in their over-the-top make-up).

When the hook comes for them, it’s not horror or remorse one feels, but relief.

The World Students Society thanks, as always,  Mohammed Kamran Jawaid.