An unusually creative mad murderer is out in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. His holiday plans: Kill someone at the exact stroke of every new hour leading up to midnight and then brag about his latest conquest in a series of freaky phone calls to punk rock TV show hostess Roz Kelly while she’s on the air. It all adds up to one of the more likable 80s slasher flicks. You get plenty of stabbings, a suffocation in a bag of marijuana, a terrific scene at a drive-in theater, some classic police vs. punks tension, lots of rock music, and a good plot twist toward the end. It also has one of the best bits of threatening dialogue in 80s horror when the killer says to one of his victims, “I can hear your heartbeat—I don’t like that“.