Netflix’s new horror movie “Time Cut” is like “Back to the Future” meets “Friday the 13th”.

“When I read Michael Kennedy’s fantasy script, the idea of ​​traveling through time with your standard teen slasher movie, I was fascinated,” director Hannah Macpherson tells TODAY.com.

Lucy (Madison Bailey) is a bright, promising high school student. However, his parents, who were hurt by his sister’s unsolved murder 20 years ago, dissuade him from interning at NASA.

Later, Lucy gets a chance to change her family’s past and her own present when she stumbles upon a time machine that takes her back to April 16, 2003.

It arrives just days before her sister Summer (Antonia Gentry) is murdered by The Sweetly Slasher, the alias of the town’s killer, in a three-day unsolved murder of four high school students.

He can travel back in time and meet his sister for the first time. Macpherson says Summer and Lucy’s growing bond made it “impossible” for her to say no to the project.

“They have crazy chemistry,” Macpherson says of leads Gentry and Bailey. “They enjoy each other, they make each other laugh. I could see they were taking care of each other on set. “It was one of those moments where you say, ‘Oh, this is truly magical.'”

Find out what happened to Lucy and Summer and the identity of their killer below.

What happens in ‘Time Interruption’?

At first, Lucy is reluctant to change the outcome of the murders, worried that it will spoil the future.

But over the course of the film, Lucy befriends her sister Summer and her nerdy friend Quinn (Griffin Gluck), who is always the object of ridicule.

After some internal turmoil, the three attempt to rescue the murdered students and achieve some success.

“It’s really nice to see that even though they’re meeting for the first time, there’s kind of an innate sisterhood between them,” Antonia Gentry, who plays Summer, tells TODAY.com. “I also think they were both very strong-willed and independent in coming together to prevent this terrible thing from happening.”

In order to return to the future, Lucy must break into a local nuclear research facility and steal antimatter, a key element of the time travel machine.

When he gets there, he finds out that the killer is already there to steal the same thing. apparently he is also from the future and the time machine he accidentally used belonged to him.

Then comes the reveal: The serial killer is Quinn from the future; He travels back in time to avenge his youth and kill Summer and all of her friends for rejecting Summer.

After the reveal, the trio confront Future Quinn. Past Quinn tries to take his own life so that his future self will also die. But Future Quinn says it doesn’t work that way.

So Lucy knocks Future Quinn down with her time machine and whisks them both to 2024.

Now in 2024, Lucy kills Future Quinn (don’t worry, Past Quinn is fine).

Later, he stops by his parents’ house to make sure nothing monumental has changed. Since Summer lives in this reality, Lucy’s family doesn’t know who she is. But Lucy has no problem with this: She decides to travel back in time to 2003 for the last time so she can grow up with Summer and Quinn.

“I think they’re going to be like the three best friends anyone could have,” Madison Bailey, who plays Lucy, tells TODAY.com.

“I think it would be a case of: ‘We’ve all been through something and seen something that no one would believe.’ At that point you’re bonded for life, when you have a shared experience with someone you keep it and no one can take that away from you.”

Why does Lucy eventually go back to 2003? The producers also considered other versions of the film’s ending

Macpherson told TODAY.com that the film’s creators considered multiple endings before deciding to have Lucy return to 2003 to be with Summer and Quinn.

“There was a version we all liked, where everyone somehow survived today, which meant Summer was 43 and Lucy was 17, and it was as if she had lived and the parents still had a child,” he says.

Gentry says it’s a version of the ending they filmed, in which Summer herself experiences and kills Future Quinn years later as an adult.

But Macpherson says it’s more “satisfying” to think of the sisters living the same age.

“I think that’s where it belongs,” says Macpherson.

Bailey thinks the writers came up with the best outcome for her character.

“I think his decision to go back to 2003 is for the best,” says Bailey. “His life has never really made sense in 2024. Knowing what you’re missing right now (in a sister) is really different from not knowing. “I think going back to 2003 is definitely the best decision for Lucy.”

Bailey also touches on a big change for Lucy; Lucy is on her own now. “He has no family anymore,” Bailey says. “They don’t know who he is, but they also never really understood him in Lucy’s world.”

As Lucy gets to know Summer, she also begins to understand her family.

“Lucy’s learning perspective. He’s spent so much time building up this hostility and blame that I think it’s just starting to develop. He understands his parents for the first time, and by imagining this loss, he dreams of putting together the pieces of what they’ve been through,” says Bailey.

Bailey says “everyone is happier in this scenario,” including Lucy’s parents.

He hopes Summer’s parents adopt Lucy after the credits roll.

“We can only hope that she says, ‘So I have nowhere to go,’ and that these people are so lovely that they’ll keep her with them forever,” he says.

How did time travel affect the outcome of the film?

Macpherson says the fun of time travel is that there are no rules you have to follow. “You can go down a very deep rabbit hole trying to research time travel,” he says.

“I spent too many days with a whiteboard that looked like a murder board, with the lines of Quinn Number Three and Lucy Number Seven,” he jokes.

In the end, however, Macpherson decided that less information was better; especially since “this movie is more about nostalgia than time travel mechanics.”

Macpherson says “Time Cut” actually takes place in a “multiverse.”

“We don’t say this directly, but I think it’s fun for people who see this to get excited about that realization,” he says. “To me, this is thematically important because the idea is that every choice we make every day creates a new version of ourselves. “And this movie is about taking control of who we are in the future.”

It’s not just the script that takes the audience back to the past. The players also went on time travel.

Gentry jokes that the 2000s were a “very impractical era” and recalls how long it took him to unfasten the many belts in his costume.

“I was thinking about how impractical almost everything I wear is,” he jokes.

This article was first published on: TODAY.com