Grab the lotion. We know what you’re doing next summer when Jennifer Love Hewitt returns to the big screen for a new sequel to her beloved 1997 horror hit, I Know What You Did Last Summer. Hewitt is currently in negotiations to reprise her role as final girl Julie James, a hit-and-run delinquent with massive airbags and a tiny white tank top.
I Know What You Did Last Summer and its 1998 sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, are set over the Fourth of July holiday and find Julie and her friends desperately trying to survive the wrath of a fisherman they had run over with their car and left for dead.
The new sequel is helmed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) and is slated for theatrical release on July 18, 2025. Freddie Prinze Jr., who played Julie’s longtime boyfriend Ray Bronson, has already signed on to co-star with Hewitt.
Hewitt rose to fame in the 90s by stealing Neve Campbell’s thunder on “Party of Five” and on the big screen with the Scream adjacent I Know What You Did… movies. In 2005, she conquered the small screen once again with the long-running CBS supernatural drama “Ghost Whisperer.” Roles on CBS’ “Criminal Minds” and Lifetime’s hooker drama “The Client List” followed. She can currently be seen on ABC’s first responders series “9-1-1.”
Hewitt’s role as Julie James in I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer earned the abundantly talented actress a spot on Clatto’s esteemed list of The Top 10 Babes of Fourth of July Horror in 2013.
Ella Purnell may have hung up her yellow jacket, but the British stunner’s buzz continues to grow with lead roles in Prime Video’s acclaimed sci-fi western “Fallout” and Starz’s upcoming serial killer dramedy, “Sweetpea.”
“Sweetpea” will premiere Oct. 10 with a six episode run. Based on the novel by C.J. Skuse, the show stars Purnell as an insignificant, maltreated wallflower who starts killing the assholes in her life when she realizes no one would notice.
Purnell hit the Hollywood scene as a teen in the Clive Owen supernatural thrillerIntruders, Kick-Ass 2, and Disney’s Maleficent. Roles in Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead followed.
However, it’s her recent one-two punch of memorable characters that is propelling her to new heights. She plays Jackie Taylor, the hot, charismatic leader of her high school’s “Yellowjackets” soccer team and Lucy MacLean, a sweet, brave, hot underground dweller who heads up to the surface in search of her missing father.
Here’s hoping “Sweetpea” is another character to cheer for and one who takes long showers with frivolous on-camera nudity.
A new trailer has gone online for A24’s cat-and-mouse thriller Heretic. The film stars Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”) and Chloe East (The Fabelmans) as hot Mormon missionaries trapped in the house of the twisted theologian (Hugh Grant) they attempt to convert.
Thatcher got her start in horror playing a young Regan MacNeil in Fox’s criminally underrated and short lived sequel series “The Exorcist.” She co-starred on Disney’s horrible “Book of Bobba Fett, but found her breakthrough role playing troubled, high school soccer player Natalie Scatorccio on Paramount + w/ Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.”
On the big screen, Thatcher made her debut opposite Pedro Pascal (“Last of Us”) in the sci-fi drama Prospect and went on to star in the 2023 adaptation of Stephen King’s Boogeyman and in MaXXXine, the final chapter in director Ti West’s porn psycho story.
23-year-old stunner Chloe East made her horror debut at age 11, playing a faerie, on season six of HBO’s hit vampire series, “True Blood.” Her only other frightener since has been the 2020 werewolf thriller, The Wolf of Snow Hollow. She is best known for her work in Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age drama, The Fabelmans.
Nightbitch tells the story of a mom who puts her art career on hold to raise her toddler son and is convinced the experience is turning her into a dog. The Searchlight film is an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel and stars a chubby, but fetching, Amy Adams (The Arrival) as the bitch in question.
Why chubby? Because a hot mom running around on all fours and eating out of a dog bowl would be an entirely different kind of movie. It would also lose it’s feminist message: you’d have to be a crazy bitch to give up your life to raise little hellions!
Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”) hits the road with a robot in search of her missing brother across a dangerous dystopian landscape littered with the ruins of a massive battle in the Netflix Original Electric State, an adaptation of the graphic novel by directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Avengers: End Game).
Brown, of course, rose to popularity on the Netflix series “Stranger Things” and has starred in Godzilla: King of Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, and the Netflix Originals Enola Holmes 1 & 2, about Sherlock Holmes hot sister, and the fantasy thriller Damsel, about a hot chick and a dragon.
Electric State is slated for release on Netflix March 2025.
New Line Cinema has released a trailer for its upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King vampire novel, Salem’s Lot. Set to premiere as a Max Original on Oct. 3, the film is directed by Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) and costars Makenzie Leigh (“Gotham”).
Leigh plays Susan Norton, a pretty resident of Jerusalem’s Lot, Maine who falls for a writer back in town to find inspiration for a new book. When he discovers people are turning into vampires, she joins him and his friends in an attempt to save the community.
Leigh made her feature film debut in the Danielle Panabaker (Piranha 3-DD) revenge thriller Girls Against Boys, but is best known for her recurring role on Batman prequel series “Gotham” as Fish Mooney’s nightclub singer and hot spy, Liza.
Rings and Revenge stunner Matilda Lutz plays Red Sonja in a new big screen adaptation of Dynamite Entertainment’s comic book series about a hot, redheaded warrior queen who kicks ass while in a skimpy chainmail bikini.
A first-look photo of Lutz in her Red Sonja armor has been released and it is somewhat underwhelming for those of us who watch warrior princess movies with our hands down our pants.
The breast plate resembles something out of a Madonna concert and the bottom was far more provocative when Russell Crow wore it in Gladiator. Here’s hoping they go back to the drawing board for a more authentic outfit.
M.J. Basset (Soloman Kane) is at the helm for Millennium Media. The film is currently in production and promises to be no worse than 1985’s adaptation starring Bridgette Nielson as Sonja.
Lutz broke into American horror in 2017 with leading roles in Revenge, a rape/revenge thriller in which she avenges her vagina after it’s broken into by horny, homicidal creeps, and Rings, a second sequel to Gore Verbinski’s 2002 masterpiece, The Ring.
Pop singer Christina Milian and Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer) are catching a ride with everyone’s favorite blood splatter analyst and his dark passenger in the prequel series “Dexter: Original Sin.” Set 15 years before the events of the original “Dexter” series, the new show introduces young serial killer Dexter Morgan as a forensics intern for Miami Metro PD.
Milian plays young Maria LaGuerta, Miami Metro’s first female homicide detective ( and the department’s captain on the original show). Gellar plays CSI Chief Tanya Martin, one of Dexter’s supervisors on the force who is completely unaware she’s teaching him how to avoid capture.
Patrick Gibson (“The Tudors”) is the new Dexter Morgan. Molly Brown (“Evil”) is his potty-mouthed sister, Deb. Christian Slater (Heathers) plays Harry, Dexter’s adoptive father with a code. James Martinez (“House of Cards”) is homicide detective Angel Batista and Alex Shimizu (“The Terror”) is pervy lead forensics investigator, Vince Masuka.
Emmy winner Michael C. Hall, who played Dexter in the original series, returns to narrate the show as Dexter’s inner voice.
“Dexter: Original Sin” premieres Dec. 13 on Paramount+ with a 10-episode season. Showrunner Clyde Phillips–the man behind “Dexter’s” brilliant first four seasons (and its god-awful “New Blood” return in 2021)–is back as showrunner.
Demon or not, who wouldn’t want to possess Abigail Cowen (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”)? The stunning redhead plays Emma Schmidt, whose exorcism is the most documented in American history, in Al Pacino’s return to the supernatural realm, The Ritual.
Cowen, who horror fans may have come to know on the Netflix series “Stranger Things” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” will seek salvation for her soul from Pacino and Dan Stevens, who play troubled priests determined to chase the demon away or swallow pea soup trying!
Stunner of yore Ashley Greene, best known for playing Edward’s adopted little sister, Alice Cullen, in Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga, is also along for the ride as a hot nun.
“Ozark” trailer trash queen Julia Garner continues to have a rough time in Wolf Man, a new Universal Monsters based thriller from Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell. Garner plays wife to Christopher Abbot (It Comes At Night), who may not be a good boy after all.
Garner, still sporting her “Ozark” poodle hair, must protect their young daughter while hunted in the Oregon wilderness by a werewolf. Set to release in theaters Jan. 17, the film is produced by Blumhouse and distributed by Universal Pictures.
