 Welcome to Frightfully Forgotten Special New Year's episode. Bridging the gap between season four and season five. Usher in to 2021 here and thank god 2020's been a fucking shit show over here for I think the whole world. But even like me like fuck my furnace went, my hot water tank went, my eaves trough fell off the fucking hell, it's like Jesus Christ. Glad to see this one gone. Yes indeed. Yes indeed. This year we decided to do a New Year's special instead of a Christmas special which we usually do. But before we get started what are we drinking? Fire in the sky, rye. Today we're going to be talking about 1980's New Year's Evil. Alright. This one was directed by Emmett Alston and I don't know he didn't do that much. There's Roz Kelly, also in this is Kip Niven and he's been in lots and lots of stuff. His name just too, he was in Magnum Forest with Clint Eastwood and Airport 1975. Grant Kramer's also in this and he's still acting today and he's been in again lots of stuff but one cult classic is Killer Clowns from Outer Space. So the movie starts off, we get introduced to Diane and she's getting ready to host New Year's Eve, right? She's got a friend though that's also getting ready. She ends up getting killed right away. Somebody's waiting in the tub and just grabs her with a knife. Always look in the shower before you get in. Yes and always look in your back seat. From here we see just this car packed full of punk rockers, right? These young punk kids listening to the theme of the movie, New Year's Evil. They're driving to like the venue. Where she's hosting this big party. Yeah, where she's hosting it. While Diane's getting ready, her kind of shitty son came into the apartment and he's sort of trying to get her attention. He's like, Mom, I got a part on TV, I got a pretty good part. Close them right off these. Yeah, just right off. She gets a phone call from somebody. He's got this weird voice thing, hello, this is evil. That voice disguiser thing does nothing. It's like he's changing his voice more himself than this thing is doing. He ends up telling her that he's going to kill people that she knows that are very close to her. And also that she's going to be the last one at the end of the night. It cuts to the outside entrance of a sanitarium. We see this guy kind of walking in. Oh well I'm new here, I'm starting, oh well I've also got some champagne, you know, to celebrate the night. It kind of works pretty quick on the nurse. They're in the room together, they got the champagne, they start making out, lay down on that doctor's table. The countdown to New Year's starts right, 10, 9, 8, 7 and you see him click the record on this portable tape recorder. And as soon as it hits zero, New Year's, he stabs her. He ends up phoning Diane after, listen to what I've done with that shitty voice thing. She kind of doesn't believe him and he's recorded it and he plays it back for her and it sounds pretty gruesome. It scares the shit right out of her. It's a little strange because it's actually not New Year's where Diane is, right? And that's kind of the M.O. He's going to kill a person on a different hour leading up to New Year's in different time zones in the country. We also see the sun back in the apartment building distraught and everything and he kind of takes these pills and he puts on this pantyhose and all mashed his face all up and he's kind of watching his mother on TV host this New Year's Eve special and he like has this bouquet of roses that he's all tearing all up. So obviously something is up his ass here. I don't know if I've ever been so pissed off where I decided to put some pantyhose on my face and tear up the roses. That would be pretty upset to do that man. From here we see the killer, he's kind of changed his look a bit, he's got some disguise on, he's got some shitty fake mustache on and he goes to like a disco, he starts talking to a couple of girls and he knows all these famous people. I'm going to Eric Estrada's place after for New Year's, I'm his financial advisor. You can come with me if you want to, driving there with this shitty mustache on. Killer dope by God here and he opens up a bag of all this weed and she goes to smell it and he just boop, put the bag over her head and kills her. Now the killer has changed disguise again, he's taken off the shitty mustache and he's a priest, he's just like a priest cruising going to his next kill. All these bikers kind of surround him and give him a hard time and he's not paying attention and kind of bumps into one of the bikers by accident. Oh fuck. Yeah you don't want to piss bike. No he's got these bikers on his tail and he goes into like a drive in theater and ditches his car, comes upon of course a couple, takes the guys, pulls him out, takes off with this other girl in the car. She ends up getting away and running away and hides under these bleachers and cops come and he actually doesn't get the kill, he has to flee. But times running out, New Year's Eve is happening in the next time so he's got to make his kill, right? Yeah he's set the deadline for himself. So he comes to a hotel, hey police officer I think there's a drunk over here. Yeah well it is New Year's Eve, fucking streets are probably littered with him. Boom! Hits him in the fucking head with a big brick. We find out this is the hotel where Diane's hosting the big New Year's Eve Gala and shows Diane getting ready again, she's like in between takes. Behind her is this guy in some sick track suit, this cheap track suit. With this really creepy fucking mask on, she looks behind her and startled, the guy takes off the mask and that's where we're going to end the plot line. If you want to find out what happens at the end of New Year's Eve and if he gets his kill on the strike at midnight on New Year's Eve, keep watching New Year's Eve. And what happens with that shitty son? One of the standout things with this movie for me was like the punk and new wave music that's kind of peppered throughout the whole movie as you see the live performances of all these bands on the New Year's Eve Gala. It's so catchy and good and also a really good job of highlighting that whole post punk new wave movement and this is early, this is 1980, like movement's barely off the ground and it's like the focal point of the movie which is pretty neat. Yeah and it's neat too because we had just covered Eyes of a Stranger and that's done in 81 and the movie feels more to the 70s side, right? This movie's done a year before and it feels super 80s which is interesting because they focus more on the new wave stuff coming up, right? So you feel it, it's ingrained in the movie. People who made this movie knew that this is the next big thing, this is what's going to be big coming up. Let's highlight this, you know, let's not focus on the old, let's focus on the new upcoming thing. Right and the young crowd and it has its own theme which is punk style, right? Sort of heavy metal-ish kind of which is neat, right? Again, it's always awesome when these horror movies have their own theme done. It's not your typical slasher, right? The killer doesn't just appear, right? Out of nowhere. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then kill and then disappear again into the shadows to reappear somewhere else. We follow the killer throughout the whole movie. That's what the movie is basically about. He's kind of like a real guy, like he runs into all these sort of real world problems. Obstacles and stuff, right? Yeah, exactly. And on top of the fact, he's set a fucking deadline for himself too. Right. The clock's ticking. You know, he looks at his watch or ever and he's like he's got to solve this fucking problem. Yeah. I love that part of it. The comedy of the movie is kind of subtle and underlying, but that's where it's derived from is these little obstacles that he comes up with. Yeah. Like, ironically dressed as a priest and then bumps into the biker and he's like, fucking, now he's got to get away from these bikers and everything. I'm a man of peace. Yeah. And then he stabs that biker. And like he picks up those girls and he's all like, ah, shut up. Yeah. Girls like who wouldn't want to kill exactly like I love that part of it. Way before behind the mask, there was near as evil kind of like looking behind the curtain of what the killer has to go through to get the job done. Right. Yeah. The voice changer thing in this movie too is kind of like the killer's hallmark, right? Because he's phoning in and using that voice changer, but it's kind of shitty. It's super shitty. Like it doesn't even do anything. Not really. And it actually makes him sound like more of an idiot. Yeah. It's like, it kind of is my only complaint really about the movie is that voice changer thing. Like, you sound like a moron. Yes. This is evil. He's all calling himself evil. Yeah. Yeah. Like when you go to a party and you meet someone you don't know, someone new and they say, well, call me evil. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, who the fuck are you? Fuck off. You're an idiot. What just happened to us in real life? Yeah. Another real cool thing about this movie actually is the killer's motto, which you will find out if you finish watching the movie is really neat and the killer is mentally and stable of course. So it's like this little tiny thing, which could be nothing to most people, ends up being the tipping point for him. Around this time, like you start to see like women, like stronger female leads, right? And this movie, which you'll see it towards the end, this movie flips that, where it shows that the man is pissed off about all this stuff. Because she's taking control of the relationship. It's what happens when a very weak man gets involved with a successful, strong woman and how that can just make him crumble. The movie also has a real neat twist at the end. Yeah. Like a couple of twists actually, but there's like one real last minute twist. The pacing in this movie too, right? You're never bored in this movie. And then the whole look of the movie, I really like that whole kind of like neon look that 80s neon new wave post punk look is just great. Being a fan of new wave music and stuff, it just like, I just sunk right into this movie. Oh yeah. This is my thing. This is my territory right here. Well, and it highlights the 80s perfectly, right? Because of course the 80s is very colorful, all this neon lights and lights coming out of his mouth. So if you're in the mood for like a, again, another slasher that takes a lot of tropes and kind of flips it around. It's got a bit of comedy, a lot of good punk rock and new wave music. Yeah. And just a lot of fun. A lot of decent kills. Yeah. Then check out New Year's Evil on New Year's Eve. And until next time, and until 2021, where we kick off season five. Five already. Holy shit. Keep drinking. You betcha.