I Know What You Did Last Summer’s rating continues the franchise’s 28-year trend, but with some new additional disclaimers. Co-written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, theupcomingI Know What You Did Last Summerintroduces a new group of friends who are targeted by another hook-handed killer one year after they cover up a car accident in which they believe to have killed someone.
The sequel is set 27 years after the Tower Bay murders, and realizing their stalker is imitating a serial killer, they seek help from survivors of the Southport massacre of 1997 – Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.). TheI Know What You Did Last Summer(2025) castalso includes Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, and Sarah Pidgeon.
Now, ahead of its release later this month, the slasher has officially received a rating from the Motion Picture Association. PerFilmRatings.com,I Know What You Did Last Summer(2025) has been rated Rfor “bloody horror violence, language throughout, some sexual content and brief drug use.”
What I Know What You Did Last Summer’s R Rating Means For The Movie
It Continues The Franchise’s 28-Year Trend (But With Some Additional Disclaimers)
I Know What You Did Last Summer’s MPA rating continues the franchise’s 28-year trend since every film, going back to the originalI Know What You Did Last Summerfrom 1997, has been rated R.The first film received a restricted ratingsolely for “strong horror violence and language.”
The 1998 sequelI Still Know What You Did Last Summer– which brought back Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Muse Watson – was also rated R for “intense terror violence and gore, strong language” butalso for “some drug use,“mainly due to Jack Black’s dreadlocked pothead, Titus Telesco, who is briefly seen smoking marijuana.
The 2006 direct-to-video sequelI’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summeris rated R for just “horror violence,” and not language or drug use.I Know What You Did Last Summer(2025) has received an R rating for “bloody horror violence, language, brief drug use,” but alsothe additional disclaimer of “some sexual content,“the first film in the franchise to feature that specific warning.
Our Take On I Know What You Did Last Summer’s R Rating
It’s Not Surprising, But Still A Good Sign
While it’s not surprising thatI Know What You Did Last Summer(2025) continues the franchise trend of R ratings, it’s still a good sign, since it’s not uncommon for R-rated franchises to be rebooted with PG-13 ratings in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience, such as in the cases ofRoboCop,Terminator,Alien vs. Predator, andThe Expendablesfranchises.I Know What You Did Last Summer’s R rating ensures it can recreate all the bloody violence and horror the previous films are known for.
I Know What You Did Last Summerreleases in theaters on July 18.
