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A24’s Disaster Comedy ‘Y2K’ Heads to Max Next Month
A24 and Kyle Mooney‘s dial-up disaster comedy Y2K wants you to party like it’s 1999 next month when it heads to streaming.
Y2K makes its streaming debut exclusively on Max on Friday, April 4. The film will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, April 5 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The disaster comedy explores what if the millenium bug really happened. In the film, “Two high school juniors crash a New Year’s Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.”
Jaeden Martell (It, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone) and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2) star as the high school friends. Y2K also stars Rachel Zegler (West Side Story), Lachlan Watson (“Chucky,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Mason Gooding (Scream 2022, Scream VI), The Kid Laroi, Tim Heidecker (Us), Eduardo Franco (“Stranger Things”), Miles Robbins (Daniel Isn’t Real, Halloween 2018), Alicia Silverstone (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lodge), Fred Hechinger (Fear Street), Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages) and Fred Durst.
Y2K hails from actor/comedian/writer and former “SNL “cast member Kyle Mooney, who makes his directorial feature debut from a screenplay co-written with producer Evan Winter.
Mooney previously told Bloody Disgusting of the film’s influences, “We talked a lot about The Faculty. That was definitely a big one. We had references like Shaun of the Dead or Attack the Block. But tonally, we just wanted everything to feel as grounded as possible, and especially in that first act, really lean into the coming of agenesis of it all so that when that turn comes, if you don’t know anything about the movie, that it’s surprising.”
While comedy is the focus here, Mooney’s disaster comedy leans into the genre in a fun way. I wrote in my review, “Playing like Maximum Overdrive for millennials, Weta Workshop brings the various murder bots to life via exquisite practical effects.”
Spider One (Bury the Bride, Little Bites) is back in the director’s chair for this year’s Big Baby, a meta slasher that sees Brandon Scott (Dead to Me) puppeteering slasher kills in our exclusive teaser debut.
Brainstorm Media will release the film on VOD on August 7, 2026.
In the upcoming slasher, “A nightmare involving a maniac killer in a baby mask serves as inspiration for horror screenwriter Adam Lewis’s new script. As more nightmares, visions, and real life terror begin to challenge Adam’s sanity, he finds himself in a desperate struggle to control his writing, his reality, and who will be Big Baby’s next victim.”
Watch the teaser below as Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier) falls prey to the Big Baby, but with a bloody meta twist.
Krsy Fox (Little Bites, Terrifier 3), Adam Marcinowski (Allegoria), Jordan Elsass (Little Fires Everywhere, Superman & Lois), Radek Lord (Ballers), Sierra McCormick (The Vast Of Night), Chaz Bono (American Horror Story), Kate Freund (Creepshow), Torio Van Grol, Cameron Cowperthwaite (Dahmer, Fallout), Kirby Bliss Blanton (The Green Inferno, Project X), and Nelson Leis (The Last Of Us, The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina) also star.
Written and directed by Spider One, Big Baby is executive produced by pop icon Cher, Chaz Bono, Tyler Connolly, Wendy Berry, and Terry Poor.
Before making its VOD debut, Big Baby is embarking on an immersive tour with exclusive photo ops and Q&As:
- July 11 from 10-4 pm at Scarepros Levittown, PA – Signing with Spider One and Krsy Fox- Photo Op with Big Baby
- July 12 at 4 pm at Smodcastle – Special Screening Hosted by Kevin Smith, Followed by Q&A with Spider One and Krsy Fox
- July 23 at Culver Theater – Special Screening Hosted by Dead Meat’s James A Janisse
- July 27-August 10 at Slasherworld – Big Baby Exhibit and Photo ops at Slasherworld
- August 15th at Horror Vibes Coffee – Horror Vibes Coffee in LA with Specialty Drink & Giveaways and Photo Ops