New Year's Evil (film)

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New Year's Evil
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, 1980
Running time	90 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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New Year's Evil is a 1980 American horror 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]

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Soundtrack 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Plot

As the film begins New Year's Eve is on its way and television's most famous punk-rock lady icon, Diane Sullivan 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 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 on the other side of America, a nurse is found viciously slaughtered. 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.^[2]

[edit] Cast

• Roz Kelly ... Diane Sullivan
• Kip Niven ... Richard Sullivan
• Chris Wallace ... Lt. Clayton
• Grant Cramer ... Derek Sullivan
• Louisa Moritz ... Sally
• Jed Mills ... Ernie
• Taaffe O'Connell ... Jane
• Jon Greene ... Sgt. Greene
• John Alderman ... Dr. Reed
• Richard Brown ... Swamper
• Teri Copley ... Teenage Girl
• Tim Cutt ... Ambulance Attendant
• Richard Kalk ... Policeman
• Mark L. Rosen ... Drunk
• Julie Kaye Towery ... Space Girl^[3]

[edit] 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"
3. "Simon Bar Sinister"
4. "Temper Tantrum"
5. "Headwind"
6. "Cold Hearted Lover"
7. "Auld Lang Syne"
8. "Dumb Blondes"
9. "The Cooler"
10. "Suicide Ways"^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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