New Year's Evil (film)

New Year's Evil
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Emmett Alston
Screenplay by	Leonard Neubauer
Story by	Emmett Alston Leonard Neubauer
Produced by	Yoram Globus Menahem Golan
Starring	Roz Kelly Kip Niven Grant Cramer Chris Wallace
Cinematography	Edward Thomas
Edited by	Dick Brummer
Music by	Laurin Rinder W. Michael Lewis
Production company	Cannon Group
Distributed by	Cannon Film Distributors
Release date	December 19, 1980 (1980-12-19)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$500,000[1]

New Year's Evil is a 1980 American slasher 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.