Time Cut is Netflix's #2 movie but it's not worth your time – here are 3 better sci-fi horrors with over 88% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Time Cut is nan no.2 Netflix movie this week. (Image credit: Netflix)

The caller sci-fi slasher Time Cut is Netflix's 2nd most-watched movie this week, pinch nan scary thriller Don't Move taking nan number 1 spot erstwhile again.

The Netflix world apical 10 database has been taken complete by tense suspense movies for illustration Woman of nan Hour and Hijack '93. However, Time Cut has unluckily fallen level pinch critics pinch a 26% Rotten Tomatoes score. The new Netflix movie follows Lucy (Madison Bailey) who travels backmost successful clip to 2003 to extremity nan execution of her older sister Summer (Antonia Gentry).

While it follows a akin premise to Totally Killer on Prime Video, which has 87% connected Rotten Tomatoes, this wasn't capable to make Time Cut one of nan best Netflix movies. So without further ado, present are 3 sci-fi horrors that are decidedly worthy your time.

I Am Mother

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  • RT Score: 89%
  • Age rating: PG-13
  • Length: 114 minutes
  • Director: Grant Sputore

I Am Mother is akin to different 1 of my favourite sci-fi horrors, 10 Cloverfield Lane with its edge-of-your-seat twists and heart-pounding life-and-death situations. The movie follows Daughter (Clara Rugaard-Larsen), a teenage woman who has been raised successful a post-apocalyptic bunker by Mother (Rose Byrne), a robot who is helping nan repopulation of Earth.

However, their narration is threatened erstwhile a alien (Hilary Swank) arrives pinch startling accusation astir nan extracurricular world that changes everything. I Am Mother is nan meaning of really we emotion and loathe AI pinch jaw-dropping reveals that person near a lasting belief connected me.

Cargo

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  • RT score: 88%
  • Age rating: R
  • Length: 105 minutes
  • Directors: Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke

Based connected a short movie of nan aforesaid name, Cargo stars Martin Freeman arsenic Andy, a begetter who has been infected pinch a zombie virus. With 48 hours until he turns, he desperately treks done nan Australian Outback to find a caller location for his babe girl earlier he changes forever.

Many group whitethorn person grown tiresome of nan zombie genre and nan acquainted format of humans transforming into convulsive creatures aft contracting immoderate benignant of rabies-like disease. I've devoured immoderate of Netflix's zombie titles complete nan years (I re-watched my favourite zombie movie World War Z on Netflix and wrote astir my dismay of Netflix canceling nan astir realistic zombie show I've ever seen Black Summer), but Cargo is peculiarly striking owed to its emotional, character-driven attack and distant Australian mounting that made maine shed a tear aliases two.

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  • RT score: 88%
  • Age rating: R
  • Length: 100 minutes
  • Director: Leigh Whannell

In Upgrade, after a convulsive mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed and his woman dead, he receives an artificial intelligence implant that enhances his assemblage pinch ace spot truthful he tin activity revenge against nan thugs who destroyed his life. Techradar's Matt Bolton wrote successful his Netflix movie of nan day that: "The crippled is simply a bully ol'-fashioned twisty mystery, truthful I won't spell further into it, but it's decidedly worthy watching for that arsenic good arsenic nan ultra-stylish cinematography, and it gets deliciously dark."

Available to watercourse connected Netflix successful nan US and Sky Go successful nan UK. In Australia, you tin rent aliases bargain it connected Apple TV aliases Amazon.

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