When only one-half of the Matts are available for a podcast, what do you do? Bring on one of the hardest-working critics in the industry to talk horror, that's what. In this special episode of Certified Forgotten's Uncertified series, Matt Donato is joined by B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) to discuss Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's modern take on an I Know What You Did Last Summer movie. And to paraphrase David Gordon Green: "Nostalgia dies tonight."
It's been 28 years since the events of Jim Gillespie's original film, but some mistakes are easily repeated. In the new film, a group of five friends take part in a terrible accident and choose to cover up their crimes. But when they start receiving mysterious messages that suggest someone is aware of what they partook in the previous July, the group turns to the survivors of a similar serial killer to learn how they might survive.
In this short except from the episode, Colangelo explains how the two films are in dialogue with each other, and how this creates strange parallels between the franchise bookends:
Each movie is the weird reflection of the other, because these characters are weird versions of each other set in different time periods. And a lot of their sensibilities change, because they're in different time periods. But that opens up a very interesting conversation about nostalgia, about giving people the exact same thing in a new coat of paint.
The I Know What You Did Last Summer episode of the Certified Forgotten podcast is now available to stream on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, or the podcast platform of your choice.
