LOS ANGELES – For fans of 1990s Hollywood horror – when the slasher genre was revitalised by charismatic young stars – the new I Know What You Did Last Summer film is both a good old-fashioned scare and nostalgic throwback.

Now showing in Singapore cinemas, it is the fourth instalment in the iconic franchise that began with 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer.

It is also a full-circle moment for American actors Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. They reprise their roles from the original film and the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which launched their careers at a time when the box office was ruled by films such as these, along with early chapters of the Scream franchise (1996 to present), The Faculty (1998) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).

The latest movie revolves around five friends who cover up their part in a deadly car accident.

A year later, one of them receives an ominous note saying, “I know what you did last summer”, and a vengeful killer with an ice hook begins picking the gang off one by one.

The quintet is played by American actors Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers and Sarah Pidgeon. But at the film’s Los Angeles premiere earlier in July, all eyes are on original stars Hewitt, 46, and Prinze Jr, 49.

They play Julie James and Ray Bronson, who in the first film found themselves in a similar predicament after accidentally killing a boy in a hit-and-run.