New Year's Evil (film)

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Directed by	Emmett Alston
Produced by	Billy Fine Yoram Globus Menahem Golan Christopher Pearce Mark L. Rosen
Written by	Emmett Alston (story) Leonard Neubauer (screenplay)
Starring	Roz Kelly Kip Niven Chris Wallace Grant Cramer Louisa Moritz Jed Mills
Music by	W. Michael Lewis Laurin Rinder
Cinematography	Thomas E. Ackerman
Editing by	Richard S. Brummer
Distributed by	Cannon Film Distributors (theatrical); Cannon Home Video
Release date(s)	December 19, 1980
Running time	90 min.
Country	USA
Language	English

New Year's Evil is a 1980 American slasher film starring Roz Kelly and Kip Niven, directed by Emmett Alston. The original music score is composed by W. Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder. The film's tagline is "This New Year's, you're invited to a killer party..."^[1]

Plot

As the film begins New Year's Eve is on its way and television's most famous punk rock lady icon, Diane Sullivan or Blaze as her fans call her, is holding a late night countdown celebration of music and partying. All is going well until Diane receives a phone call from an odd sounding stranger claiming his name is Evil, who announces on live television that when the clock strikes twelve in each time zone, a 'Naughty Girl' will be punished (murdered), then the killer signs off with a threat claiming that Diane will be the last one to die.^[2]

The studio crew takes safety measures and heightens security, but in the local insane asylum a nurse is found viciously slaughtered at the stroke of midnight EST. The killer records his victims as he murders them and calls back the station each time playing the tapes back to prove he's serious. There are many suspects as to who the mysterious killer/caller is; a crazed fan, a religious psychotic, or maybe it's someone much closer to Diane than anyone could have ever expected.^[3]

Cast

• Roz Kelly as Diane Sullivan
• Kip Niven as Richard Sullivan
• Chris Wallace as Lt. Ed Clayton
• Grant Cramer as Derek Sullivan
• Louisa Moritz as Sally
• Jed Mills as Ernie Moffet
• Taaffe O'Connell as Jane
• Jon Greene as Sgt. Greene
• John Alderman as Dr. Reed
• Richard Brown as Swamper
• Teri Copley as Teenage Girl
• Tim Cutt as Ambulance Attendant
• Richard Kalk as Policeman
• Mark L. Rosen as Drunk
• Julie Kaye Towery as Space Girl^[4]

Soundtrack

Composer(s):

W. Michael Lewis

Laurin Rinder

1. "New Year's Evil"- Written by Roxanne Seeman & Eduardo del Barrio
2. "When I Wake Up"- Written by John Pakalenka
3. "Simon Bar Sinister"- Written by Clifford White & Ray Leonard
4. "Temper Tantrum"- Written by Ray Leonard
5. "Headwind"- Written by Clifford White
6. "Cold Hearted Lover"- Written by Clifford White
7. "Auld Lang Syne"
8. "Dumb Blondes"
9. "The Cooler"
10. "Suicide Ways"^[5]

References

1. ^ New Year's Evil Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
2. ^ Saturday Nightmares: New Year's Evil (1980)
3. ^ New Year's Evil (1980) - Plot summary
4. ^ allmovie ((( New Year's Evil > Cast )))
5. ^ New Year's Evil (1980) - Soundtracks

External links

• New Year's Evil at the Internet Movie Database
• New Year's Evil at AllRovi
• New Year's Evil at Rotten Tomatoes