10 Movie "Ripoffs" That Actually Weren't
2. Time Cut
Netflix's recent time travel slasher flick Time Cut was immediately roasted by audiences not merely for being a bad film, but so obviously riffing on last year's near-identically premised Amazon Prime horror flick Totally Killer.
That both movies were unassumingly released on competing streaming services close to Halloween in their respective years only invited further comparison.
But in actual fact, Time Cut was announced back in May 2021 and completed filming by August of that year.
Totally Killer, meanwhile, wasn't even announced by Amazon and Blumhouse until May 2022, almost a full year after Time Cut wrapped.
As for why Time Cut spent so long in post-production? It's anyone's guess, but it's not uncommon for Netflix Originals to spend numerous years on the shelf before finally being released, and in this case it's possible they delayed it further to create some distance from Totally Killer's fast-tracked production.
Though undeniably the lesser of the two similarly premised slashers, this really just comes down to time travel movies being really, really in at the moment. At least they focus on different decades - Totally Killer the '80s, Time Cut the '00s - right?