Bloody New Year (1987)
Cheap but cheerful supernatural horror from Norman J Warren in which a boatload of friends end up marooned on a remote island and take refuge in a seemingly deserted hotel all decked out for New Years Eve in the middle of an English summer.
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Bloody New Year are silly, poverty row, clumsy, meandering and plotless. However it's also decidedly odd, eerie, fairly creepy thanks to somehow being far too well lit and occasionally unsettling.
Parts reminded me of the far superior
Carnival of Souls and others
The Beyond minus any decent gore, but i actually quite enjoyed it. Perhaps i'm too forgiving of Warren due to his classic (in my eyes) earlier output but if you can somehow ignore the issues clearly on display - mainly through lack of budget and dodgy acting - then like me you might get something out of
Bloody New Year because, and this is the main thing. I was never remotely bored.
½ / 5