The Trailer For Netflix's Slasher "Time Cut" Is Giving People, Especially Millennials, Serious Flashbacks
by Mychal Thompson · BuzzFeedA new Netflix movie might have some millennials facing some hard truths.
Time Cut is a new sci-fi slasher starring Madison Bailey (Outer Banks), Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia), and Griffin Gluck (Locke & Key).
The movie is about a girl named Lucy (Madison) who travels back in time to save her older sister, Summer (Antonia), from a masked killer.
It was written by Michael Kennedy, who created Freaky (2020) that was like a slasher twist on Freaky Friday.
His 2023 holiday-themed movie It's a Wonderful Knife was a slasher twist on It's a Wonderful Life.
And you can say Time Cut is like Back to the Future with a slasher twist.
However, based on the reactions to the trailer, the most terrifying part of the movie isn't the evil, masked killer on the loose.
Nope! It's the fact the main character travels back in time to 2003.
There's velour tracksuits.
There are multi-layered outfits.
Of course, the very hip shoewear of the early aughts.
And there are these insufferable silky shirts from department store clearance sales we used to wear. It's startling.
Nothing's more humbling than having the time you were actually in high school be used as a period to travel back to in a movie. Is this how "the greatest generation" felt when Back to the Future was in theaters?
People on the internet are sharing their woes, worries, and gripes with the depiction of 2003 in Time Cut. The responses are funny and sometimes very upsetting because what do you mean my teenage years are "back in the day"?
For one, there's the classic soundtrack with songs like Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday."
so yesterday by hilary duff being used in a soundtrack to establish the film as a period piece…i knew this day would come https://t.co/Qr6NQSuzor
— Vardaan Arora (@vardaanarora) October 30, 2024
Netflix / Twitter: @vardaanarora
People are having a really, really hard time accepting this movie about their "childhood era."
How it feels when there’s a time travel movie about your childhood era #TimeCut pic.twitter.com/VxLULxl8G0
— Dr Sean Travers (@seanjetravers) October 30, 2024
Orion Pictures / Twitter: @seanjetravers
Other people think it looks like "2024 pretending to be 2003," which is funny because it is.
They even pointed out that one girl was "holding a portable CD player like a smartphone."
Why is she holding it like that, though?
The internet is mostly critical of the 2003 styles, but as a dismayed millennial, I think they're just expressing angst over how this period has been depicted in the trailer.
you can have the actors wear all the uggs and tracksuits your heart desires, but putting zero effort into period accurate hair and makeup means it was all for nothing https://t.co/xVZwHCogsk
— spooky bear 🎃🐻 (@honeybunwife) October 31, 2024
Netflix / Twitter: @honeybunwife
