---
title: 'New Year''s Evil (1980)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Emmett Alston'
released: '1980-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 85
genres:
  - 'Horror'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/new-years-evil-1980'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082806/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# New Year's Evil (1980)

1980 · 85 min · Horror · United States


## Synopsis

New Year's Evil is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Emmett Alston, who wrote the screenplay with 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Emmett Alston](https://cinepixo.com/people/emmett-alston)
- **Producer:** [Menahem Golan](https://cinepixo.com/people/menahem-golan), [Yoram Globus](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoram-globus)
- **Director of Photography:** [Thomas E. Ackerman](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-e-ackerman)

## Cast

- [Grant Cramer](https://cinepixo.com/people/grant-cramer)
- [Chris Wallace](https://cinepixo.com/people/chris-wallace)
- [Kip Niven](https://cinepixo.com/people/kip-niven)
- [Taaffe O'Connell](https://cinepixo.com/people/taaffe-o-connell)
- [Louisa Moritz](https://cinepixo.com/people/louisa-moritz)
- [Roz Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/roz-kelly)

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