Horror Movie Review! Y2K (2025)

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4.6 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, we review one of the latest horror movies, Y2K. Some of us... remember the craze around the computers shutting down at the turn of the century. Some built bunkers, some panicked... most didn't buy into the hype. Anyways now there's a movie about it... and we had some thoughts. Did we love it? Did we hate it? Tune in and find out Become a supporter on Patreon!⁠https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststories ⁠Music by Jesse Wilkins and Kashar ⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/5yacgac20GQsymq2nsVmPr?si=5skhjOFyQMqGvE58rAre-Q⁠ MERCH: ⁠https://hometownghoststories.com⁠ Tix for the LIVE SHOW! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hometown-ghost-stories-live-tickets-1468135545939?aff=oddtdtcreator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.1	The Foxx 2.9. The The Welcome everybody to another horror movie review here at HGS reviews.
1:14.1	I, of course, am your host, Rob Coakley, joined as always by Dave Wilkins. Hello, Rob Coakley. And Jesse Wilkins. Hi there. And today we are reviewing
1:21.3	the movie Y2K, which I believe came out right at the tail end of 2024. One of the movies that I was a little bit intrigued by, so I'm glad we're getting to it.
1:31.4	But as always, before we jump into our review, I don't know what that was of this movie.
1:40.0	Dave is going to give us a synopsis.
1:43.2	Don't do whatever I just did, Dave.
1:45.3	Just, uh, don't worry.
1:47.9	Be better, I guess.
1:51.2	Y2K,
1:52.4	2024, directed by Kyle Mooney.
1:57.0	This is an A24 movie.
1:59.5	On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Year's Eve party only to find themselves fighting for their lives when the terror of Y2K becomes a reality and all machines rise up against humanity.
2:15.1	So this kind of felt a little bit like the Terminator or the Matrix a little bit with the
2:23.4	direction that they were they were trying to take this movie, at least with the idea of
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