I Know What You Did Last Summer doesn't hook, Sharp Corner a slow burn

Five friends are stalked by a killer a year after they caused a fatal car accident and conspired to cover up their involvement.

- Whang Yee Ling

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (M18) 111 minutes, opens on July 31 ★★☆☆☆

The story:

I Know What You Did Last Summer is best understood by first remembering what the high-school grads in the 1997 movie of the same title did 27 summers earlier, which was to inspire a Hollywood horror franchise with their bad decision to conceal a hit-and-run.

This feature fourquel remake-update returns to the fictional North Carolina fishing town of Southport.

Another generation of cavorting juveniles has again cost a driver his life, and a hooded vigilante is chasing down the rich twits (Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King and Tyriq Withers) and their working-class pal (Sarah Pidgeon) to harpoon them with his fishing hook.

SHARP CORNER (M18) 111 minutes, opens on July 31 ★★★☆☆

The story: Family man Josh (Ben Foster) moves into a woodland residence with his wife Rachel (Cobie Smulders) and young son (William Kosovic), and becomes fixated on the auto collisions recurring outside their front yard.