New Year's Eve is looming and TV's most famous punk-rock lady icon Diane Sullivan is holding a countdown celebration of music and partying.
All is going well until Diane receives a phone call from a odd sounding stranger announcing on live Television that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, a 'Naughty Girl' will be murdered, and the killer leaves a threat saying she will be the one to die last.
The studio crew takes precautions and heighten security, but a nurse is found brutally butchered. Who could be behind these murders.....
At a time when slasher films were pretty new, and ten a penny, New Year's Evil falls into the very small sub genre of naming horror films after celebratory days. By this time, Christmas had all but been 'sleighed', and we all know what had happened with Halloween. So the makers took a 'stab' with this film. And it has an air of eighties slasher to it, as horror films made around this time had a very similar fell to it.
The cast are al fine, some are more kooky than others, the police portrayed are more two dimensional than matchstick men, and the final reveal isn't really a reveal, its more of a 'I told you so'.
But the films last fifteen minutes is brilliantly funny, and makes up fro all of its shortcomings.
It's not a very well remembered film, and its plain to see. But if you are a fan of eighties horror, this will fill a gap.
All is going well until Diane receives a phone call from a odd sounding stranger announcing on live Television that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, a 'Naughty Girl' will be murdered, and the killer leaves a threat saying she will be the one to die last.
The studio crew takes precautions and heighten security, but a nurse is found brutally butchered. Who could be behind these murders.....
At a time when slasher films were pretty new, and ten a penny, New Year's Evil falls into the very small sub genre of naming horror films after celebratory days. By this time, Christmas had all but been 'sleighed', and we all know what had happened with Halloween. So the makers took a 'stab' with this film. And it has an air of eighties slasher to it, as horror films made around this time had a very similar fell to it.
The cast are al fine, some are more kooky than others, the police portrayed are more two dimensional than matchstick men, and the final reveal isn't really a reveal, its more of a 'I told you so'.
But the films last fifteen minutes is brilliantly funny, and makes up fro all of its shortcomings.
It's not a very well remembered film, and its plain to see. But if you are a fan of eighties horror, this will fill a gap.