Bloody New Year (1987)

Bloody New Year (alternatively titled Time Warp Terror) is a 1987 British supernatural slasher zombie film directed by Norman J. Warren and starring Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Colin Heywood, Mark Powley, Catherine Roman, and Julian Ronnie.

Plot
In 1959 at the Grand Island Hotel, partygoers celebrate New Year's Eve. Everybody has just about left, except a lady who's cleaning herself up in a mirror, but gets abducted into it.

Couples Rick and Janet, Lesley and Tom, and their single friend Spud are spending the day at the seaside. Everyone decides to go to the funfair. Spud makes a couple of attempts to woo a lady, but fails. Spud gets his chance when he notices a couple of hooligans harassing an American tourist named Carol on the Waltzers ride. Spud and Rick fight with hooligan who are now joined by the ride operator, but Tom outsmarts them by turning off the ride's power. They save Carol, but they've now got the hooligans on their tail. They run into a ghost train dark ride, where a car driven by Lesley bursts in and they escape from the hooligans. Then they take a boat out to sea, but it starts to sink when they crash on a rock, so they have to abort ship.

They find an island that's mostly deserted. Even though there's a sign that reads "DANGER KEEP OUT", the teens try to find somewhere to stay. They find strange things like animal skulls, barbed wire, and strangest of all, a some plane wreckage. They stumble upon the Grand Island Hotel, which strangely has Christmas decorations set up, but they don't seem to mind. Spud and Carol go into the lounge, Rick and Janet head upstairs, and Lesley and Tom go into the bar. Lesley sees a figure staring inside, but find him missing when Tom goes outside. A maid materializes and gives Carol a blanket, and informs her everyone is fine. Spud hears music and finds Chas Cronk and Tony Fernandez performing, then they suddenly disappear. Janet and Rick are watched by a ghost while they're getting dressed and make out. Tom and Lesley try to get the power on, when some fireworks suddenly go off.

Carol, Spud, Lesley, and Tom get dressed while a TV plays a 1959 broadcast about a radar device that will turn a plane invisible and will be launched on New Year's Eve. After they have a drink at the bar, they find a little cinema and sit down to watch Fiend Without a Face. Then Rick puts on some home films. Spud's doing some commentary, when someone from the film jumps out and lethally scratches Spud's face, then he flies back into the projector. Rick runs off to get Janet, while Lesley and Tom go off and find a cottage. Lesley enters the house and gets caught in a fish net, with fish hooks ripping at her skin. She's saved by Tom, but then she's attacked by a monster coming out of a table. Tom stabs at the monster, but then he's attacked too. Rick and Janet head back to the hotel when they hear laughter in the woods and they're chased by an unseen figure. Then they see random footprints appear on the beach. They hear a plane crash and an explosion, so they head off and find a plane crash site, then they see figure staring at them. Carol follows the maid into a lodge, where she's trapped in a storm, but suddenly ends

They all get back to the hotel, and they're told by Lesley that Tom is in trouble. They get to the cottage, but Tom is nowhere to be found. Then one of the hooligans named "Dad" bursts in and starts fighting with Rick. He grabs Lesley and punches through her abdomen, suddenly turning into a zombie. She throws Dad through a wall and turns her attention to the others, but Rick throws the fish net at her and locks her inside the house with a flare. Janet runs off, but gets stuck in some quicksand. Rick and Carol help her out. They get back to the hotel and lock it up. They hear Lesley at the door, so Rick goes looking for a weapon, while Carol and Janet hide in the bar. Another hooligan named "Ace" attacks them, but he's knocked by Carol. Janet flees upstairs, where the third hooligan "The Bear" bursts in through the window. Then Zombie Lesley bursts through the roof and twists The Bear's head. Janet's grabbed by the banister buzzard as Lesley approaches her, but she's stopped by Rick when he shoots her to death, hacks off and her arm, while Carol hacks off the buzzard's head.

Tom comes back, but he's in pretty bad state, so Janet to look after, while Rick and Carol find the hooligan's boat. Rick finds the figure staring at him again, so he and Carol follow him. They find mirror shards hanging everywhere, a military camp, and some more plane wreckage. Carol sees the aviator figure staring at her, but Rick strikes him and he blows up. They find the hooligan boat, so they run back to get Janet and Tom. Janet's still taking care of Tom, when he turns into a zombie. She runs into a elevator, where she uses to rip Tom's arm off, but then she grabbed by some hands coming from the wall and gets absorbed into it. Ace finds Rick and Carol and chases them into the kitchen, which starts attacking them. Ace trips into a vat and he's eaten. Rick and Carol take cover in the pantry.

They hear Janet's voice in the ball room, but instead find a woman on stage. Her face becomes messed up and dumps some exposition to Rick and Carol. On New Year's Eve 1959, the government sent with the experimental radar device. It crashed on the island and it caused the hotel to be stuck in a time warp. They chased by zombies into the games room. More zombies appear and start approaching Rick and Carol, but they ride on a snooker table and wind up outside. They get down to the boat and are about to sail off when Janet appears on the beach calling out for Rick. He falls for it and runs back to get her, but gets stuck in some quicksand. Then Dad's zombie appears and runs an outboard motor over Rick's head. Carol's left alone in the boat, but she falls through the floor and drowns. Everyone who died is seen dancing at the 1959 New Year's Eve party, besides Carol who's stuck behind a mirror.

Cast

 * Suzy Aitchison as Lesley
 * Nikki Brooks as Janet
 * Daniel James as Spud (credited as Colin Heywood)
 * Mark Powley as Rick
 * Catherine Roman as Carol
 * Julian Ronnie as Tom
 * Steve Emerson as Dad
 * Steve Wilsher as Ace
 * Jon Glentoran as The Bear
 * Chas Cronk as Himself as a Ghost
 * Tony Fernandez as Himself as a Ghost
 * David Lyn as Interviewer
 * Rory McLean as 1st Expert (credited as Rory H. McLean)
 * Nick Dowsett as 2nd Expert
 * Steve Edison as Film Invader
 * Roy Hill as Flying Cadillacs
 * Jenny Bayliss as Madame Zelda
 * Ian May as Aviator
 * Paul Barrett as Table Monster
 * Victoria Smith as Snowball Girl

Release
The film wasn't released to theatres, instead going direct-to-video in September 1987 in the UK, and October 22nd, 1987 in the US.

Vinegar Syndrome would restore the film the best they could since most of the film was lost and destroyed. They released the film to Blu-Ray on January 1st, 2019.

Reception
As of January 4th, 2021, the film has a 25% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.