5.7 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
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During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Punk Rock & New Wave show host gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
Starring: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Grant Cramer, Louisa Moritz, Jed MillsHorror | 100% |
Thriller | 9% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
New Year’s Eve festivities can be raucous in a lot of situations, not necessarily related to huge group swarms like the madness at Times Square every year. That general sense of chaos is played for scares in the lackluster New Year’s Evil, a film which both indulges in and defies a lot of tropes in the then nascent slasher craze that had seen an uptick in interest starting in the late 1970s. New Year’s Evil delights in a certain amount of blood and guts, of course, but for once the perpetrator of the mayhem is not a huge mystery kept under wraps (and/or a hockey mask) until a supposedly cathartic reveal in the last reel.
New Year's Evil is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Scream Factory, an imprint of Shout! Factory, with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. This is a surprisingly decent looking transfer, though it's hobbled by some minimal age related damage to the elements. Colors have made it through the gauntlet of time largely unscathed, with reds especially vivid, making the gore scenes pop quite convincingly. Grain is quite heavy at times, clumping a bit unnaturally in some of the darker club scenes where Blaze is hosting her show. Detail is at least at adequate levels and frequently much more than that in close-ups.
New Year's Evil offers a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono mix that sounds just slightly clipped in the extreme higher registers, but which otherwise offers a rather full bodied presentation of the film's soundtrack. Dialogue and the film's frankly dated score come through very cleanly with no problems whatsoever.
New Year's Evil has a couple of interesting elements, including a relatively early reveal of the culprit doing all the slashing, but it's otherwise relentlessly formulaic and ultimately pretty silly. As with so many other horror films from this era, New Year's Evil has its share of hardcore devotees, and they should be generally well pleased with the technical merits of this release.
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