Bloody New Year Has All the Cheesy '80s Horror You Crave, and Then Some
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The title Bloody New Year feels overly obvious: surely, this is yet another holiday-focused slasher movie in which shrieking teens get picked off one by one. And while there’s a bit of that, this 1987 British release—also known as Horror Hotel and the far more spoiler-y Time Warp Terror—is also far, far weirder than you’d expect.
After a brief opening depicting a New Year’s Eve party bidding “good-bye 1959, hello 1960,” rendered in “vintage” footage, we cut right to the ‘80s, where a group of friends are killing time at a seedy seaside carnival. After they rescue an American girl, Carol (Catherine Roman), from a trio of leering, chain-wielding bullies—freaking out a fortune-teller and causing untold amounts of property damage in the process—they speed away and then are suddenly at sea. When their sailboat runs into some rocks, they escape to a nearby island, where they discover a curiously empty resort hotel that is, even more curiously, freshly decked out for Christmas... in July.
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