The carnies give chase and even clamber onto the boat that the youngsters are pulling behind their vehicle as they drive away, but are pushed off into whatever pile of boxes they happen to be passing. When he spots lone American Carol being harassed by three carnies on one of those stomach-turning Waltzer rides, he and his buddies come to her rescue. Ain't that always the way with holidaying groups of youths in horror movies? Mind you, given that his pick-up technique appears to involve standing near groups of girls and looking moody, it's not all that surprising. Lesley and Tom and Janet and Rick are already paired off with each other, leaving the quiff-haired Spud to bemoan his lack of a partner. We're then bang up-to-date with five young friends on a day out at a seaside funfair. Anyway, as the credits conclude, the grainy footage expands to fill the screen and turns to colour, and in a neat bit of sleight-of-hand camera and editorial trickery, a woman is unexpectedly pulled into a mirror by her own reflection. Seriously, we're only a few small steps away from Comic Sans here. The period effect is dented a little by the cheesy and non-period font used for the main title and credits. Warren 1976-1987 box set, Gort enjoys some elements of BLOODY NEW YEAR, a film that ultimately falls some way short of its potential, and rounds off his coverage of what is definitely one of the multi-disc Blu-ray releases of the year.īloody New Year, which would prove to be Warren's final horror feature to date, gets off to a lively start, as grainy monochrome home movie footage of a ballroom celebration plays out in a small window on screen to an oddly catchy cod late-50s rock 'n' roll number as the main titles unfold below it.

In his final review from Indicator's Bloody Terror: The Shocking Cinema of Norman J.

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