Although A24s Y2K has an original premise, the upcoming horror comedy also owes a creative debt to a more family-friendly spin on the same idea. It is pretty easy to work out the creative origins of A24s upcoming horror comedy Y2K. Y2K follows a pair of likable, nerdy teens who attend a booze-fueled party on New Years Eve 1999. In this movies reality, Y2Ks Millennium Bug turns out to be a very real fear as electronics all over the world go maliciously haywire at the stroke of midnight and begin massacring humans.