New Years Evil Review.

Greetings Fellow Gorehounds.

Earlier in the week the Morgue of Mayhem had a visit with a pretty nice patient. I gave him a thorough examination and here is my findings...

"New Years Evil"

Symptoms:

A nationally televised New Years Eve punk rock party being celebrated on all four time zones sets an eerie stage for "murders at midnight" in this thriller with a twist ending.

Diagnosis:

This films stars Roz Kelly (Famous as Pinky Tuskadaro on Happy Days) as Blaze,the host of the Punk Rock New Years show. She recieves a phone call by someone who calls himself "Evil" and he says he is going to kill a person at midnight in each time zone that celebrates the New Year.
The Killers Identity is revealed pretty early on so we can see his Suave tactics getting his victims and Cold harshness when he dispatches them.
The films isn't outright gory...all the violence is pretty much out of the view of the audiance, but it does show some of the aftermath.
The Twist ending, by todays horror films has been done to death, but in the 80's it was fresh and new.....but it still seems stale, However; IMO the twist is within the MOTIVE and not so much in the final scene.

The acting was decent as it moved the story forward at a nice pace; there was enough going on in the story to keep me involved without boring me and it was a nice surprise for a small independant slasher film in the 80's.
This is a good addition to your collection if your a fan of the 80's horrror films.