New Year’s Evil
Blu-ray
Director: Emmett Alston
Screenwriter: Leonard Neubauer
Cast: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Grant Cramer, Chris Wallace
Scream Factory
Rated R | 90 Minutes
Release Date: February 24, 2015

Diane “Blaze” Sullivan (Roz Kelly), the host of a nationally televised punk-rock show on New Year’s Eve, is receiving calls from a mysterious killer who tells her of his plans to off someone at midnight in each of America’s major time zones… and she will be the last.

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