New Year's Evil

Name: New Year's Evil
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1980-12-26
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 4.9

1980 · 1h 26m · Horror, Thriller

IMDb 4.9 Metacritic 33 RT 25%

Unless you're a devoted horror completist or midnight-movie masochist, skip this one. The premise has potential, but the brutal scores across all platforms tell you what you need to know—this 1981 slasher is a turkey that doesn't even have the charm of being entertainingly bad.

Plot

During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone.

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