On New
Years Eve a wild woman named Diane
Sullivan (Roz Kelly) is hosting a
countdown TV show hotline party fronted
by many wild punk rock bands at a dance
floor.
She gets an obscene from a stranger
announcing on live Television that when
New Year's strikes in each time zone, a
'Naughty Girl' will be murdered
(punished), and the killer leaves a
threat saying she will be the one to die
last.
Everyone takes the call seriously after a
Lieutenant named Clayton (Chris Wallace)
discovers that a nurse on the other side
of America being butchered as the killer
dresses himself up as a crazed fan, a
religious psychotic, or perhaps it's
someone much closer to Diane then the
police (or audience) could have ever
expected.
Dianne's son Derek (Grant Cramer) is also
troubled by something that he wants to
tell her during this night but is too
busy to talk to him about it that night.
What a load of
crap this film is and the only thing that
saves it from bombing is the bands
playing on the dance floor.
It's not the least bit scary and alot of
times way too corny with obvious plots in
it not knowing whether for it to be an
action/thriller or a slasher/horror.
The story goes around in circles too not
explaining too much why this killer is
stalking girls on New Years eve for their
sleaziness.
Prom Night did this the same
year but theirs was far better and four
years later, Silent Night Deadly
Night used some of the same
chemistry too but knew how to do a proper
slasher flick.
The acting is
quite bad with most of the cast members
but lead actress Roz Kelly seems
to pull her role off not too shabby as a
wild hostess for the punk rock show for
the New Years Eve TV show.
Kip Niven was quite good too pulling
off as a descent one in the film but
disguising himself as different people to
kill others and is convincing at doing
so.
Grant Kramer plays an okay troubled
teenage kid and can be considered above
average with his part in it.
Now here's where the cast slumps.
Supporting actress Louisa Mortiz
is overly annoying as a party girl
wanting to have some guy fun.
Taafee O'Connell played a terrible
lusty nurse in the film.
Teri Copley really overdoes her
frightened emotions and is convinced to
be in the film for her looks only.
There is a quick
breast flash by a woman in a van to a
group of punkers driving in a car towards
the opening of the film.
There's almost a big breat shot on Teri
Copley in a car at a drive-in.
A slit throat and
some stabbings but this film was not
really gory.
The directing by
Emmett Alston is quite bad,
uninspired and makes the whole plot
laughable.
He shows a nice opening with a bunch of
cast playing punks driving in a car to
the New Years Eve countdown rock show as
it looked good 80's cheese in a
Savage Streets kind of way as
there's perfect camera shots on it.
However, when he directs Kip Niven
making an obscene phone call to Roz
Kelly that he is going to kill on
New Years it looks more comedic and not
at all dark, scary or mysterious. Plus,
it looks even lamer than what you's see
in a Slumber Party Massacre
type of plot.
There is a good shot on the killers hand
with his first murder holding up a
bloodied switch blade knife and stabbing
his victim.
There is a scene that was supposed to be
effective involving supporting actor Grant
Kramer when he shows frusteration
and intense anger in his hotel room as
well as tearing apart some roses but it
looks too planned out.
We spot a good car driving scene that
involves Niven with supporting
actresses Louisa Moritz and Anita
Crane having discussions with him
and Niven sure gives an
aggressive look while driving as if he's
ready to kill them right then.
Niven does show great insane
expressions when he suffocates Mortiz
with a plastic bag almost like what
you'd picture in Black Christmas.
We have a good camera shot on Crane
when she is in an alleyway looking around
and then slowly opens the metal door to a
garbage can with Niven jumping
out of it.
Also what was impressive was two other
supporting actors as policemen played by Bob
Jarvis and Richard E. Kalk
looking around for the two women and
spotting them dead as it almost looked
dark and horrifying for a slasher film
but not quite.
There's a nice brief shot with Niven
towards small actor E.L. Woody
as a biker about to assault him anmd
Niven was great at acting quick by
stabbing him.
We see a nice camera shot on Niven
wearing a funny face mask holding up a
switch blade towards Kelly in
almost a Michael Myers type of fashion.
Niven also looked good by being
physical towards Kelly when he
handcuffs her and ties her up acting
menacing towards her as if he will
soonkill her now and right there.
A nice camera shot on Kelly
being chained up to the bottom of an
elevator too.
The music was
composed by W. Michael Lewis and
Laurin Rinder as we have a bit
of effective cheesy synthesizer slasher
style music along with some sound effects
very similar to the effects used in a Friday
the 13th film.
There's a nice bitchin soundtrack by many
80's cheesy hard rock and punk groups
too.
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