Who wouldn’t want to time-travel back to the early 2000s? Pokémon cards, chart-topping Britney Spears, low-rise jeans … the dawn of the new millennium was an exciting time to be alive. But in Hannah Macpherson’s new teen slasher Time Cut, a trip back to the noughties isn’t a matter of nostalgia — it’s a matter of life and death. 

When Lucy Field (Madison Bailey) discovers a time machine — just another day in the life of a high school science whiz — she decides to travel back and prevent the crime that’s haunted her young life: the murder of her older sister Summer (Antonia Gentry). Can she survive the early ’00s and unmask the killer? Or will she say “Bye Bye Bye”… to her life?!? Only time will tell. 

“My character’s in 2024, living in the shadow of her older sister,” Bailey tells Tudum. “Going back and meeting this sister who I’d never met before, I’m seeing this light in her and I’m connecting the dots of my own life.” Sure, Time Cut is a time-travel movie and a slasher, but it’s also a family love story.

Read on for more info, watch the trailer above, and stay tuned for Time Cut when it hits Netflix this fall.

What is Time Cut about? 

A teenage girl travels back to the early 2000s to attempt to stop a vicious killer from murdering her sister.

Directed by Hannah Macpherson (T@gged) and written by Macpherson and Michael Kennedy (Freaky), Time Cut puts the ‘ow’ in ‘two-thousands.’ “There’s the stakes of life or death, but on top of that, we get this time-travel element,” Macpherson tells Tudum. “To be able to dig into the thematics of family and what are we willing to sacrifice? I just thought that was so cool.”

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Who’s in the cast of Time Cut?

The stars of Time Cut include: 

• Madison Bailey (Outer Banks, Black Lightning) 
• Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia, Raising Dion)
• Michael Shanks (Virgin River, Altered Carbon)
• Griffin Gluck (Tall Girl, Locke & Key)
• Rachael Crawford (When Night Is Falling, Possessor)
• Jordan Pettle (Murdoch Mysteries, American Woman)
• Megan Best (Nobody, Seance)
• Samuel Braun (Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, The Way Home)
• Sydney Sabiston (All Fun and Games, Acting Good)
• Kataem O’Connor (The Way Home, Heartland)

Bailey and Gentry had a tricky assignment: how to play a pair of time-traveling sisters who meet for the very first time, despite living in different decades? “They get to know each other and grow with each other, even though you see their sort of chemistry is naturally there because they are sisters,” Gentry tells Tudum. “Maddie and I became friends on that set. It was sort of just a natural transition from us hanging out on set, playing games, going shopping, and then having our characters meet for the first time and learn about each other.”

Bailey agrees. “We just had a bond that felt like we could be really close,” she says. “I just felt really connected to her when I met her, and that definitely played into our characters.”

When will Time Cut be on Netflix?

Time Cut is now streaming on Netflix.

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