Netflix’s Time Cut First Look: Madison Bailey & Antonia Gentry Fight Off a Y2K Slasher (Exclusive)
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If you could go back in time, would you? In Netflix's new YA slasher film Time Cut, that question is a no-brainer. The film follows Lucy, a teenage girl who travels back to 2003 to stop a vicious serial killer from murdering her sister. Below, Teen Vogue has your exclusive first look at the trailer, official poster, and never-before-seen images from the film.
This latest addition to the slasher horror canon is led by Outer Banks star Madison Bailey and Ginny & Georgia star Antonia Gentry, who play sisters Lucy and Summer, respectively. “20 years ago, my sister and three other students were murdered,” Lucy says via voiceover in the movie's harrowing first trailer, which is set to a distorted version of Avril Lavigne's “Complicated.” “I never got to meet my sister," Lucy continues. "They say you can't change the past… but what if you could? Now, I have a chance to stop the murders.”
Joining Bailey and Gentry in Time Cut are Griffin Gluck, Michael Shanks, and Rachel Crawford, and the film is directed by filmmaker Hannah Macpherson (whose previous thriller work includes T@gged, Into the Dark, and School Spirits) and written by Macpherson and Michael Kennedy (Freaky).
“I love to direct scary movies — supernatural, thriller, sci-fi — but the time travel element in Time Cut was something new for me to play with,” Macpherson exclusively tells Teen Vogue. “It's really fun that the movie is about teenagers today, but it looks back at teenagers over twenty years ago when I was a young adult. Things have changed in a lot of crazy ways (sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying), but the point is that growing up is hard no matter when you're alive. The same things matter now that mattered in 2003: feeling accepted for who you are and finding your people.”
Time Cut is set to release on Netflix on October 30, just in time for Halloween, alongside scores of other hair-raising titles for the streamer's Netflix & Chills (spooky) season-long campaign. And according to Macpherson, Time Cut will absolutely deliver on the chills.
“Time Cut is a mystery and I hope people are excited to figure out who the Slasher is and why they did this,” she says. “It's also very exciting to see Madison and Antonia play sisters — their chemistry is awesome and I can't wait for people to see this iconic duo light up the screen together.”
Gentry tells Teen Vogue that she “loved" working with Bailey. “She's so funny and we clicked instantly,” she says. “We'd always hang out off-set playing Mario Kart or shopping.” Gentry teases an “unexpected twist at the end” of the film, one she probably would've loved even as a viewer due to her love of slasher horror. “I love gore, and grew up watching so many horror movies with my mom.”
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Time Cut utilizes beloved horror tropes like time travel and a small-town serial killer (there's even a chase scene in the ultimate Y2K setting: a shopping mall), yet keeps its story fresh by having a story of genuine sisterhood at its core.
“Michael Kennedy's script was so smart, scary, and fun, but what hooked me was the sister relationship,” Macpherson says. “This is a love story between two sisters who have been separated by time and violence and we get to watch them find each other. My sister is my best friend and exploring a story about what these two young women are willing to sacrifice for each other was special to me. The movie also has a great message at its heart: you must take control of your future."
Below, check out the first trailer for Time Cut and 9 new first-look photos from the film, shared exclusively with Teen Vogue.
Time Cut arrives on Netflix on October 30, 2024.
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