The second trailer for A24’s Y2K features a remixed Bill Clinton playing over a 1990s montage of dial-up internet and panic at a 1999 New Year’s Eve party.
“Someone’s on the net,” a panicked Rachel Zegler says at the beginning of the trailer, released Wednesday.
The clip reveals few other details about the upcoming film, which will be the directorial debut of Saturday Night Live‘s Kyle Mooney.
The movie hits theaters Dec. 6, and centers on two high school juniors who find themselves fending for their lives after crashing a New Year’s Eve shindig on the last night of the 20th century. Turn-of-the-century technology appears to take over the party, turning the night potentially deadly, with a computer aboard a remote control car chasing party guests around a living room.
The remixed Clinton soundtrack comes from the former president’s 1999 remarks on Y2K readiness, where he attempted to assuage the country’s fears regarding the formatting of calendar data as the world moved into 2000.
“Party like it’s 1999, or die like it’s Y2K,” the trailer’s title cards read. A poster, also released Wednesday, shows off a power cord dripping with blood.
Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, The Kid Laroi, Fred Durst, Mason Gooding and Alicia Silverstone all feature in the film’s main cast, which also includes Mooney.
Mooney co-wrote the script with Evan Winter. Producers are Winter, Matt Dines, Alison Goodwin, Jonah Hill, Christopher Storer and Cooper Wehde.
“It’s a film of assured performances — with an especially strong turn from Julian Dennison — and a handful of sharp twists in search of a better story,” critic Lovia Gyarkye wrote for The Hollywood Reporter when the movie premiered at South by Southwest in March.
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