This article contains spoilers For "I know what you did last summer" 2025.

Entering the revival of 2025 at "I know what you did last summer", fans generally understood that the main character Ava (Chase Sui wonders) will probably make it out of the story alive. She was the main character, which, like Ennenifer Lion Hewitt, Juluuli 28 years ago, at least tried to do the right thing during that messy incentive to the murder incident.

The fans were less confident about the fate of Danica (Madeleine Clin), a character who is basically a spiritual reincarnation of Helen Shivers (Sarah Michel Gellar) from the first film. Helen was tragically killed after A. a lot The doubting sequence of chaseAt one point still haunting fans decades later. "I know what you did last summer," it is generally considered a smaller version of the Scream franchise, but Helen's death (and those uncertain minutes before) is one of the few cases when the film climbs that reputation. Helen's murder is stuck in a way that no other death in this franchise did.

Perhaps that is why, when the reboot initially decided to kill Danica in a similar way, the audience revolted. In a A recent interview with the Hollywood reporterMadlin Cledge revealed that her character's false death should initially be her true death, only to change quite late in the process of production after some reactions to focus groups.

"I only got the news that I was returning about two and a half weeks ago," Clin explained. Her interview took place on June 28, which means that these additional scenes were filmed just over a month before the movie was released. "We shot all of them, many end scenes about two weeks ago."

The best argument for a miraculous saving of Danica's life is that it serves as a kind of spiritual justice for Helen Shivers. Danica was not similar to Helen in personality and appearance; Had a whole sequence of dreams where she seemingly talking to Helen's spirit. Helen's fate was hanging over Danica's head like Damocol's sword, to the point that she felt as if the film didn't just ask us "Will Danica die?", "Whether Danica would end up like Elena?"

To spare Danica from Helen's fate, to give her a chance to move from this mutilation related to the hook in the way Helen could never, she definitely feels like a healthy note to end the bow. The only problem is that the horror should not always be healthy. The horror is assumed to be frightening, rough, even cruel; Viewers should believe that the stakes are real and that a happy ending is not guaranteed. Test audiences were probably not thrilled by Helen's death, but the writers kept her in any case because they understood that this should not have been a good story.

In many ways, "I know what you did last summer (2025)" feels like repeating the same mistakes as recent sequels to Scream. Those last two films "Crick", with their core four Go from sting wounds like they are nothingThey killed many of the suspension in the series in their search to keep viewers happy. The good thing is that viewers are rooted for the main characters to survive, but that does not mean that horror movies have to throw all realism through the window to give the audience desires. Sometimes viewers need to be expelled. The first "I know what you did last summer" understood this, so this new restart will never avoid its shade.