New Year's Evil (1980)

Directed by

Emmett Alston

Genre

horror film, independent film, slasher film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

R

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A TV show host is broadcasting a New Year's Eve punk rock special when a caller threatens to kill someone as midnight strikes in each time zone. The killer then follows through on his promise while the host and police try to stop him.

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What happens

New Year's Evil is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Emmett Alston, who wrote the screenplay with 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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