I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST CHRISTMAS (2025)

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Directed by Gregory William Randolph Jr.
Written by C.M. Wright.
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A group of former friends receive anonymous letters inviting them to a Christmas party in a secluded cabin. All of them haven’t seen each other since last Christmas where a woman froze to death while they partied inside. Now a maniac clad in a Santa suit is picking off these pretty people one by one. Who is this mystery killer Santa? You’ll have to watch the movie to find out as I will not spoil it here.

Now, I try not to judge a book by its cover or a movie by its poster, but dammit if I didn’t put this film on the top of my must-see list simply by the title alone. It’s just too perfect and while I was pretty much certain that I was going to be disappointed, I had to check it out because that’s just some clever titling right there. If anything, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST CHRISTMAS had to be better than the soulless remake of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER which plopped hard in theaters this past summer.


That, unfortunately, is the best praise I can give I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST CHRISTMAS. While it does borrow the premise of the original film, it really never goes any further than that. I was disappointed that they didn’t just focus on a small cast and base the film more on the original. Had they cast actors that fit the tropes of Ryan Phillippe, Freddy Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Jennifer Love Hewitt, I think I would have given the film points for being a proper satire. The original definitely lends itself to that sort of treatment. Instead, we get a gaggle of hot club girls in tube dresses and a bunch of guys with floppy hair, along with one or two weirdo red herrings schlubbing around an AirB&B for the bulk of the film. It feels like the movie only wanted to emulate the original I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER in name alone but never put the work in past that surface level similarity.

There are some ok gory kills and a decent amount of blood spattered around. There’s a death by pool stick that I haven’t seen before, so there’s that. But the film is flat without a lot of thrills or scares. There are long stints of the group just sitting around and sniping on one another, which grows tedious quickly. The production throws a little tinsel here and there and puts up a tree. That’s about all that’s done to make this look like a Christmas movie. It doesn’t help that this was filmed in a temperate climate, so there’s no snow on the ground, even though last Christmas it was the freezing weather than caused the death of the person that motivates the killer to take revenge. The killer Santa isn’t menacing and the reveal behind who the killer is and what their motives are is cliched, and sort of in bad taste in this day and age.

I’m sure there are going to be a lot of folks suckered into I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST CHRISTMAS on the name alone, like I was. I just wish the film lived up a little bit to that epic title.