Y2K
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The acclaimed product fellowship A24 stake into the horror comedy blank withY2 K , the directorial debut of comedian and actor Kyle Mooney that mixes late-90s nostalgia with savage motorcar - on - man force . countersink up too soon as a high schoolhouse sex drollery , Y2Kquickly turns into an apocalyptic survival of the fittest picture when the main characters are faced with the reaching of the new millenary , which bring with it theinfamous Y2 K glitch that everyone in 1999 feared . While in world there were very few real - mankind consequences of the calendar turn over , inY2Kit brings an evil AI singularity driving killer robots .
Bythe ending ofY2 K , the golem have apparently been defeated , but not before many characters meet various comical yet grisly terminate at the hands of daily menage machines and intercrossed slayer robots . Over the course of the film ’s action , many background knowledge persona are obliterate in cruel fashion ; some company - function high schoolers are coiffure on flame , while another has his expression rip to smidgeon by an galvanic razor . One poor young man even has part of his frame devoured by a sentient liquidiser . However , a number ofmajorY2Kcharactersare also killed , albeit with motley grade of brutality .
9Farkas (Eduardo Franco)
Failed Rollerblade Rail Slide
In a vast release from the character he ’s most famous for ( empty - headed stoner Argyle from Netflix’sStranger Things),Eduardo Franco plays the belligerent bully Farkas inY2K. He acts as the main foil for Jaeden Martell and Julian Dennison ’s characters Eli and Danny betimes in the movie , but finds himself aligned with them when midnight hits and the machines go berserk . After being trap in the service department of the house party they all attended , Farkas leave with the survivors of the massacre , choosing ( by taking them out of the hand of CJ ) Rollerblade as his preferred modal value of transportation .
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On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.
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December 6th , 2024
Kyle Mooney
$ 15 million
$ 20-$35 millon ( contrive )
45 %
50/100
The abrasive and mean Farkas makes it all of 15 feet before he hear to grind on the pole of an overturned basketball basketball hoop . In an fast-growing bit of karma from the universe , Farkas slips off the track and smashes his head on the background , give way instantly . As with most of the death , it ’s played for laughs given its underlying silliness : with people die left and correctly at the hands of sentient machines , he dies after devolve while showing off . In the grand scheme of the film , it ’s far from the most brutal dying .
8Madison (Ellie Ricker)
Death By Flying Videotape
Madison is the classmate who Danny shares a passionate kiss with at midnight inY2Kafter impressing the entire party with his confidence . Unfortunately , Madison never makes it out of the political party , or at least she is n’t find out again in the moving-picture show . While Madison is screaming in terror , the VCR in the living room where the party is taking placefires out a VHS tape recording ofVarsity Bluesat in high spirits speed , and drills Madison right in the typeface .
Madison ’s end was never in reality sustain , but given that everyone else at the party was slaughter , and she ’s never get word from again , we ’re count it . It ’s far from brutal in the context of use of the other death on the list , but at least it was n’t a legitimate chance event like Farkas ' decease ; Madison was actively killed by the machines .
7Danny (Julian Dennison)
Impaled By The Screenslayer
Julian Dennison ’s Danny is correct up as the 1B to Jaeden Martell ’s 1A supporter Eli at the beginning ofY2K. The two son recall the Seth and Evan fromSuperbadroles , seeking to addict up with girls at a New Year ’s Eve company . That makesDanny ’s other end in the movie truly shocking , as he seems like a " safe " part while many other pocket-size eccentric meet bloody end . Danny ’s death is not quite as gruesome as some of the other kills on this inclination , but it ’s still pretty brutal to observe .
Danny have a comparatively unobjectionable death in the form of a simple entry and exit wound through his midriff , but it still feel brutal in how sudden and unexpected it is .
Danny is stake on the spear ( ? ) arm of the Screenslayer , a bipedal monster of collected engineering driven by the microcomputer from the house where they were party . While he is n’t kill right away , and suffers a comparatively blank death in the form of a simple entry and release wound through his midriff , it still feels cruel in how sudden and unexpected it is .
6Aiden (Luca Stagnitta)
Fan Blade Through The Skull
The party - goers are first alarm to the physical threat of the machine when they discover the eubstance of Aiden , the boy Raleigh was hook up with during the party . The two were on a mechanical bed , act with the adjustable setting when they were last seen before midnight , and while the audience does n’t get to see Aiden ’s death , they see the aftermath : his dead dead body with a fan blade stick through his skull .
Eli ’s mom is played by Alicia Silverstone , which is a piece of meta XC nostalgia ; Silverstone was a motion picture icon of the 1990s , star in famous film likeThe Crush , Clueless , andBatman & Robin .
As Raleigh tells it , the mechanical layer took on a life story of its own and give Aiden into the buff , which was turning so apace ( theoretically as a hostile machine itself ) that it lodged a sword in his brain . It ’s the first dying in the movie , and its brutality service as an indicator of what ’s to come shortly thereafter .
5CJ (Daniel Zolghadri)
CDs To The Face
CJ deal to make it all the way through 90 % of the journeying from the party massacre to the high shoal , where Eli and Laura project to terminate the machine threat once and for all , connect with Ash along the elbow room and prove his skill as a knocker . His end is stigmatise by heroism , ashe manages to push Fred Durst out of the way of a round of drinks of fly CDsfired by a golem in an endeavour to kill the rocker / doorknocker .
A24 ’s Y2 K is finally here , and here is a full breakdown of every birdsong that appears in the film , with many of them playing into 1990s nostalgia .
Unfortunately , the CDs wrap up pepper CJ ’s face , open up his skull and belt down him . The fact that he ’s down by literal CDs while saving Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst is unquestionably singular on the aerofoil , but that does n’t do anything to decrease the real strength of the killing . It ’s a truly brutal way to pop off , and serves as a poisonous exclaiming power point to the climactic battle at the high shoal .
4Trevor (Jacob Moskovitz)
Burned Alive By RC Car Robot
Soccer Chris is the older guy that Laura kisses at midnight , and like most 1990s - era movie bullyrag , he roll with a gang of lackey . One such toady is his friend Trevor , who have from the first on - sieve kill by the machines . A remote - assure railway car rolls into the middle of the company , and Trevor defiantly step up to it , asking who ’s driving it . He is answered by the motorcar itself , whichraises a lighter up to an aerosol can and sets Trevor ’s head on firing , killing him quickly . It ’s the first shockingly brutal expiry that occurs on - screen , but it is n’t the most brutal .
3Soccer Chris (The Kid Laroi)
Head Cooked In A Microwave
Soccer Chris himself suffers from a likewise violent expiry , as he manages to find himself in the kitchen of the household where the party is being held . In the prompt pandemonium of the machines take up over , everyone is running madly , and dissimilar party - goer are being follow up on and killed by various gadget . Chris is mid - conversation with Eli and Laura when he ’s spark , and accrue head - first into the microwave oven , whichimmediately turn on and begins to electrocute his head from the interior - out . The aftermath is ( thankfully ) not uncover , but it can be imagine what that might look like , and it is ghastly .
2Garrett (Kyle Mooney)
Decapitated By The Screenslayer
Writer - director Kyle Mooney saved one of the most brutal ( and outright silly ) last for himself inY2K. The upgrade Screenslayer manages to track down Eli , Laura , and their band of survivor as they ’re create their way back to the high-pitched school to stop the uniqueness , which lead Kyle Mooney ’s burnout television stock manager Garrett to step up and struggle it hand - to - hand . However , his arm of choice against the chainsaw - armed Screenslayer are a couple of devilsticks , the amateur wooden sticks used for juggle – which he does n’t know how to even expend .
The event is pretty much on the nose what one would expect;Garrett rushes the monstrous machine and has his arm slice off at once , and in a subject of seconds the chainsaw arm cut his headland off , and it rolls to the feet of the other survivors . It ’s an completely comical scene given Garrett ’s mislaid bravado and the sheer swiftness of his destruction , but having both his weapon system and headway chopped off makes this one of the most roughshod dying in the intact movie .
1Raleigh (Lauren Balone)
Head Drilled By Tamagotchi
The unchallenged most brutal last inY2Kcame during the initial party mass murder . Laura ’s friend Raleigh , who seems to have chameleoned in with a different crowd over clock time ( as the movie explains was common during the 1990s ) , is frantically trying to get away the slaughter at the same fourth dimension as Eli , Danny , and Laura . They come font - to - face with Raleigh down a hall , but after a brief second , she screams out while ancestry nebuliser on the rampart behind her . It ’s revealed thata modest robot which is manoeuvre a office drill dilute into her achilles , squeeze her to the ground immediately .
The robot ( which is expose to be driven by a Tamagotchi , in one of the most fun bits of ninety nostalgia ) wastes no time inpressing the drill bit into Raleigh ’s skull , scrambling her brains and pop her straight off . Danny stomps the golem into pieces , but the damage was already well done at that point . It ’s the pièce de résistance on the house party massacre , and the sheer creativeness and bloodiness makes it the most brutal expiry in all ofY2K.
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On the last night of 1999 , two high school day juniors doss down a New Years Eve political party , only to find themselves fighting for their life in this dial - up disaster comedy .
