6: Time Cut (2024)
When I watched Totally Killer in 2023 I checked to confirm that it wasn't from the writers of “high-concept fantasy comedy meets slasher” series Happy Death Day, Freaky, It's A Wonderful Knife and all, because it was “Back To The Future meets slasher”.
And then a year later, we get “Back To The Future meets slasher” from one of the writers of Freaky.
Actually made earlier but released later, it’s a victim of poor timing (ha ha) because it’s a light take with some serious points following an outright comedy version. It doesn’t help that jumping back to 2003 is just much less different (and funny) than 1987, no matter how much they make 2003 look like a Benetton and Apple ad. It briefly toys with a serious point about how much you could change the future but makes the decision pretty simple. I full-on laughed at one joke. There’s some dialogue that looks suspiciously like it was changed with ADR. And Totally Killer also has more and grosser kills, which feels like a fair complaint for this subgenre.
I don’t know how I’d feel if I hadn’t seen Totally Killer, but I think I’d still be bothered by the weak time travel humour, wobbly time rules and lack of slashing. As is it’s fine but a poor second.
The medium: Netflix.
Gameability: As I said last time, “science project time machine is a pretty Buffy The Vampire Slayer kind of plot hook.” But this one has a prominent Buffy poster, so well done on that count at least.
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