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New Year's Evil is a american film of genre Thriller released in USA on 26 december 1980 with Roz Kelly

New Year's Evil (1980)

New Year's Evil
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Released in USA 26 december 1980
Length 1h30
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Horror,    Slasher
Rating49% 2.4507852.4507852.4507852.4507852.450785

New Year's Evil is a 1980 American horror 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.

Synopsis

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 Naughty Girl to be punished.

Actors

Roz Kelly

(Diane Sullivan)
Grant Cramer

(Derek Sullivan)
Louisa Moritz

(Sally)
Taaffe O'Connell

(Jane)
Teri Copley

(Teenage Girl)
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