I Know What You Did Last Summer is surging on Netflix. 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer is a legacy sequel to the 1997 slasher of the same name, which spawned a long-running franchise that includes two other sequels and a spinoff TV show. The new movie features Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprising their original roles.
Netflix has now updated their daily Top 10 chart of the most-watched movies in the United States, and I Know What You Did Last Summer has surged to No. 6 just one day after premiering on the platform on October 16.
It has landed on the chart alongside a number of popular Netflix originals, including their all-time smash hit KPop Demon Hunters (No. 3), the documentary My Father, the BTK Killer (No. 8), and the literary adaptation The Woman in Cabin 10 (No. 1).
Additionally, it is the only horror movie to land on the chart on October 17, making it Netflix’s most popular horror movie of the day during the lead-up to Halloween season, in spite of the fact that it takes place during the summer.
What makes it stand out in particular is the fact that horror tends to surge in October, as most other streamers have multiple horror or Halloween тιтles in their respective daily Top 10 charts.
These streamers include HBO Max (The Substance, Bring Her Back, Freddy vs. Jason, 2009’s Friday the 13th, Beetlejuice), Disney+ (Hocus Pocus 2, Haunted Mansion, Halloweentown II, Trick or Treat), Paramount+ (Vicious, Scream VI), Apple TV+ (It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, The Gorge), Hulu (Scream, Scream 2), Tubi (1999’s The Mummy, Saw II), and Peacock (M3GAN 2.0, Scary Movie).
This streaming success is another feather in the cap of the legacy sequel, which has managed to thrive in spite of earning a dismal 36% Rotten Tomatoes score. This is still the second-best score of the four I Know What You Did Last Summer movies, so the franchise has weathered worse.
However, the movie’s $63.3 million box office haul was middling, landing somewhere closer to the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ($40 million) than the original I Know What You Did Last Summer ($125.2 million). Regardless, if it continues to surge on streaming and proves to be a major at-home hit, another sequel could be greenlit sooner rather than later.
The ending of I Know What You Did Last Summer indeed leaves the door open for a sequel, which would potentially feature the return of Brandy as her I Still Know What You Did Last Summer character Karla opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Julie James and other survivors from the new cast.
