One pretty decent horror movie has been dethroned by a truly terrible one in Netflix’s top 10 list today. That would be Don’t Move, now unseated by Time Cut, a 68% scored movie versus a 17% scored one. Though interestingly, both have the same 40% audience score. Huh.
Don’t Move is the horror film where a woman finds herself slowly getting paralyzed as she tries to escape a killer. Meanwhile, Time Cut is a time traveling slasher film where a girl warps to 2003 to try to save her sister from being serial killed. The appeal is supposed to be a flashback for millennials to their high school era, but while using a cast full of Netflix’s biggest teen-focused shows, as it stars Outer Banks’ Madison Bailey, Ginny and Georgia’s Antonia Gentry and Locke and Key’s Griffin Gluck.
What I find hilarious about Time Cut is that it’s close to a clone of Totally Killer, an Amazon original horror movie from last year, where a girl time travels back to 1987 to team up with her teenage mom to stop a killer. Like, come on, how does this happen within a year? And Totally Killer was much better, an 87% score with a 76% audience score. Having seen both, yeah, it is not even remotely close in terms of quality, and Kiernan Shipka and Olivia Holt are both great in that.
Netflix Top 10
Don’t move can probably be considered a success with a nearly totally unknown cast that would not demand big bucks to star, plus an incredibly simplistic concept that had to be cheap to film. It does not strike me as the type of movie that needs a sequel, given its concept, but who knows.
Former #1 Woman of the Hour has fallen to #5, and has made news as director/star Anna Kendrick announced she was donating all the money she made from selling the film to RAINN and the National Center for Victims of Crime. What a boss.
The kids movie half of the list (and there is always a kids movie half of the list) now includes The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, Kung Fu Panda 4 and Harold and the Purple Crayon, the last of which I do not expect to stay there long as one of the worst-conceived films I can remember. There’s also what appears to be an interesting documentary about star/felon Martha Stewart, now at #4, and it may rise from there.
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