Product Details

• Actors: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer, Louisa Moritz
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 6, 1989
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301169824
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,453 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Break Out The Champagne!, January 2, 2012

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Stanley Runk "Runkdapunk" (Camp North Pines) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Years Evil [VHS] (VHS Tape)

New Years Evil is an early entry in the slasher movie boom. Coming out hot on the heels of Friday the 13th, it's an obvious attempt at the "holiday" slasher movie theme. However, this movie doesn't take the Jason/Michael/Madman Marz approach of making the killer an almost supernatural, unstoppable juggernaut who never speaks. This is more of the When A Stranger Calls style, where the killer is a more true to life psychopath. No mask, no mystery. We see him constantly and half of the film is devoted to following him around as he goes on his spree. Basically he's the central character of the film. Throughout the film, "Richard" AKA "Evil" calls into a televised rock and roll New Years Eve extravaganza hosted by Rozz Kelly. His plan is to commit four murders, one for each time zone(New York on through to California) when the clock strikes midnight for the New Year. Th final murder is to be Rozz herself. Dear God, who is this guy?? Well, those fluent in horror films will figure out what's really happening long before the movie ends.
Not much in the gore or suspense departments, but the performance of Kip Niven as the sly psychopath is actually quite good.
But being that there are no surprises here, this movie will still be entertaining for fans of slasher films and classic(and I use the term lightly here)horror films. Fans of Resident Evil: 4-DArmegeddonwastelandplaguematrixripoff will simply hate it.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good watch for the true horror hounds!, December 24, 2007

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The Preacher (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Years Evil [VHS] (VHS Tape)

One star?!! Obviously, somebody doesn't appreciate low budget horror! New Year's Evil is one of the better "slasher" films of the 80s, in my opinion. I'm sure many would disagree with me, but N.Y.E. is way more interesting than the extremely overrated Friday The 13th Pt. 1, a movie so boring that I've only watched it once. I just saw N.Y.E. last week and I've already watched it twice, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make my friends watch it on New Year's Eve too! N.Y.E. isn't overly gory and it's easy to figure out who the killer is, but this movie has that charm that only 70s and 80s low budget horror films can contain. If you love ignored horror gems like Sleepaway Camp, Night Of The Creep or Rock 'N Roll Nightmare then definitely give New Year's Evil a view.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars New Years Evil, February 11, 2011

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Jose Lopez "Jose Lopez" (Miami,Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Years Evil [VHS] (VHS Tape)

New Years Evil is your typical low grade B-Movie but a lot more awful with bad acting and really predictable throughout and boring and then when the scary parts come it's all sadistic but still awful to sit through all the New Wave Music.