New Year's Evil is a 1980

1980 in film

- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....

 American

United States

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 slasher film

Slasher film

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 starring Roz Kelly

Roz Kelly

Roz Kelly is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli's girlfriend Carol "Pinky" Tuscadero on the hit television series Happy Days.-Before Happy Days:...

 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..."

Plot

As the film begins New Year's Eve

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 is on its way and television's most famous punk rock

Punk rock

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 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.

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

Eastern Time Zone

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. 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.

Cast

• Roz Kelly
  Roz Kelly
  Roz Kelly is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli's girlfriend Carol "Pinky" Tuscadero on the hit television series Happy Days.-Before Happy Days:...
  
   as Diane Sullivan
• Kip Niven as Richard Sullivan
• Chris Wallace as Lt. Ed Clayton
• Grant Cramer
  Grant Cramer
  Grant Cramer is an American actor who has starred in films and on television. He is the son of actress Terry Moore.Grant's first feature film role was in 1980, when he starred in the horror film New Year's Evil. It wasn't until 1984, his big role came in the 1984 cult comedy film Hardbodies in...
  
   as Derek Sullivan
• Louisa Moritz
  Louisa Moritz
  -Early life:Louisa Moritz was born Louisa Castro in Havana, Cuba and left Cuba during the upheaval of the 1950s, hiding on a ship and eventually making her way to New York City. She chose the stage last name of Moritz after seeing the Hotel St...
  
   as Sally
• Jed Mills as Ernie Moffet
• Taaffe O'Connell
  Taaffe O'Connell
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   as Jane
• Jon Greene as Sgt. Greene
• John Alderman
  John Alderman
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   as Dr. Reed
• Richard Brown
  Richard Brown
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   as Swamper
• Teri Copley
  Teri Copley
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  as Teenage Girl
• Tim Cutt as Ambulance Attendant
• Richard Kalk as Policeman
• Mark L. Rosen as Drunk
• Julie Kaye Towery as Space Girl

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"