FormerSNLstarKyle Mooney’s horror-comedy,Y2K, is set to hit streaming in less than a month. The film, which was written by Mooney and Evan Winter — and directed by Mooney — and stars Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, The Kid Laroi, and Fred Durst. The film slid a bit under the radar when it debuted last year, but if you missed it on the big screen, your time to check it out on the small one is nigh.
According to a new press release from A24,Y2Kwill make its streaming debut on Max on Friday, June 05, 2025. The film will also debut on HBO (the cable channel/network) on Saturday, April 5 at 8:00pm ET. The film was produced by Evan Winter, Jonah Hill, Matt Dines, Alison Goodwin, Chris Storer, and Cooper Wehde.
Its official synopsis is as follows:
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 in this dial-up disaster comedy.
The Best Part of ‘Y2K’ Makes It Worth a Watch
More comedy than horror, ‘Y2K’ acts as an homage to the 1990s, and that’s not a bad thing.
‘Y2K’ Finds Millennial Nostalgia In Our Silliest Societal Moments
If you are a person of a certain age — and, yes, Millennials, we are of that certain age now — you’re very likely to remember the hysteria that ran roughshod over everyone at the end of the last millennium. Back in 1999, computer programmers and normies alike were worried about what the year changing from 1999 to 2000 might do to the computer systems that were increasingly controlling our world. To go from “99” to “00” could potentially wreak havoc on systems that were not prepared for the change. Folks were very worried that the year might automatically revert to 1900, causing chaos and shutdowns the world over.
Spoiler alert for anyone who was born in the last 25 years: that did not happen.Everything was fine, and the world continued to spin madly on into the dystopian nightmare we all know and love today. But Mooney’s horror-comedy posited the question: what if the worst-case scenariodidhappen? Or, worse: what if the changeover resulted in a robot uprising that was hellbent on destroying the planet? And what if the creme-de-la-creme of ’90s culture was also front and center in the story? The resulting movie was slightly divisive among movie-goers (including our own Will Sayre), but there is no denying the glorious way the film sends up and pays homage to the ’90s — and 1999 specifically.
The film scored a 42% with critics and 52% with fanson Rotten Tomatoes, which makes sense for someone as stylistically specific as Mooney. The formerSaturday Night Livecast member was notorious for his highly specific characters and world-building in his sketches and videos, creating a niche for himself that is born almost exclusively out of his experience as an elder Millennial. I mean, shoot, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst stars in this movie: and is there anything more turn-of-the-century than that?
