Y2K: What The Year 2000 Problem Was & Why People Feared The World Would End

Obviously, Y2K takes inspiration from the real-life fears surrounding the Y2K bug. Directed by Kyle Mooney, Y2K takes place on New Year's Eve at the turn of the millennium. Y2K's main characters are teenagers who find their New Year's party thrown into chaos by a sudden and brutal uprising of machines against humanity, all set off by the Y2K bug infecting various machines and uniting them into a cybernetic hivemind. This sets up the film's central plot, which plays out like a humorous fusion of an archetypal John Hughes high school narrative with the over-the-top sci-fi violence of The Terminator franchise.