Tuesday, 12 November 2024

VOD: Time Cut (Hannah Macpherson, 2024)

"We're not altering the future, we're just giving it...a little makeover..."

Bearing some similarities to 2023's Totally Killer but filmed first, a miserable teenager jumps back in time twenty years via a mysterious machine in a barn and tries to prevent her sister's murder at the hands of a masked killer.  Whereas Totally Killer was skewed towards daft comedy-horror, Time Cut goes for the YA teen girl emotional tropes - cue 2003 fashion makeover, bonding with the (teen) sister she never knew, Avril Lavigne on the soundtrack and the hilarity of dial-up internet.  It is all rather insipid and low-powered, leaving little impression and with an ending that abandons its own earlier considerations of timelines and paradoxes.  
 

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