New Years Evil (1980)

 From Cannon films it's 'New Years Evil'. Our killer commits murder as each time zone hits midnight and calls in to a New Wave New Years broadcast to gloat. Filming began in Los Angeles on October 15th 1980 and the movie hit theaters on December 19th, so this was a real quicky. That they managed to make the killer, played by the late Kip Niven, genuinely charasmatic is a real accomplishment. Also each murder becomes harder to commit then the last, metaphor for how it can be hard to keep one's New Years resolutions? All the non killer stuff pretty much sucks, but on balance film is a little better than its reputation. **