New Year's Evil
New Year's Evil is a 1980 American slasher film written and directed by Emmett Alston, co-written by Leonard Neubauer, and starring Kip Niven, Roz Kelly, and Chris Wallace. The plot follows a Los Angeles punk rock and new wave show host who receives a series of phone calls during a televised New Year's Eve bash from a killer warning of impending murders that he plans to exact as the New Year dawns on each time zone.
Plot
One New Year's Eve, popular punk rock/new wave DJ Diane Sullivan (known as "Blaze" among her fans) is hosting a late-night countdown celebration of music and partying, televised live from a Hollywood hotel and simulcast on local radio. All is going well until Diane receives a phone call from an odd-sounding stranger, who claims his name is Evil. He announces his intention to murder one "naughty girl" at the stroke of midnight in each US time zone; he warns that Diane, located in the Pacific Time Zone, will be the last victim. Meanwhile, Diane's son Derek arrives at the studio, but is mostly ignored by his mother; he begins behaving erratically throughout the night as he watches the show on television.
More details
author | Leonard Neubauer |
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contentLocation | Los Angeles |
director | Emmett Alston |
editor | Dick Brummer |
genre | horror mystery thriller |
keywords | build central time zone dead father drive-in theater each us time zone eastern time zone hawaii–aleutian time zone honolulu injured liquor store load local radio lock mountain time zone murder new year pacific time zone party phone call punk rock radio announcer string time in the united states |
musicBy | Laurin Rinder W. Michael Lewis |
producer | Menahem Golan Yoram Globus |
productionCompany | The Cannon Group, Inc. |
publisher | The Cannon Group, Inc. |
theme | independent slasher |