Netflix's Time Cut director explains alternate ending as fans divided over 'lazy' final scenes

Warning: This article contains major plot spoilers for Time Cut on Netflix.

Time Cut's director has explained the film's alternate ending after its final scenes left fans divided.

There's nothing worse than being completely drawn into a mind-bending story only to be left with a lacklustre ending. Sounds a bit like my last relationship, actually.

The new film landed on Netflix on October 30 and stars Outer Banks actor Madison Bailey as Lucy Field - a teenage girl who travels back in time to the early noughties to try and stop her sister from being murdered.

Accidentally discovering a time machine, she arrives in the year 2003 with one mission - to save her older sister, Summer (played by Antonia Gentry).

You can watch the trailer below:

Time Cut, directed and co-written by Hannah Macpherson, takes viewers on a trip down memory lane but has left millennials horrified by the movie's portrayal of 2003.

And it wasn't the only aspect fans were unhappy with. Many were left satisfied with Time Cut's ending.

Warning - spoilers are ahead!

The Slasher is revealed to be vengeful student Quinn (Griffin Gluck), from an alternate timeline, seeking revenge on Summer and her friends. Lucy transports herself and the future Quinn back to 2024 where she manages to electrocute and stab him to death. But now, she doesn't exist in this new timeline, so instead Lucy decides to return to 2003 to live her life in the past with Summer and Quinn.

The film took us back in time to 2003 (Netflix)

Taking to Twitter, one fan said: "A fresh idea of time travel + slasher movie... but such a lazy ending."

Someone else agreed: "Okay we just gone pretend that ending made since lol cute lil movie tho #timecut."

A third chipped in: "I got curious how the writer makes it enthralling... but the ending part looks like they just want to finish the story easy."

Another, while praising the cast, wrote: "...The only thing that made me mad was the ending; it wasn't a rewarding ending at all, but I'm not surprised - it's Netflix."

But not everyone hated it, as one fan described it 'cute and wholesome'.

Macpherson told Tudum there were 'a variety of different options for endings', which included 'both sisters being alive in the present day'.

She explained: "Summer would have been 20 years older than Lucy, but they were still both alive. We just felt that that image of 45-year-old Summer and teenage Lucy wasn’t as happy as the two girls as teenagers getting to experience life together. It just felt so good, time-travel logic be damned."

Time Cut is available to stream now on Netflix.